Wi2023: Serving Communities by Creating Space

26/06/2023 55 min
Wi2023: Serving Communities by Creating Space

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For people in historically marginalized communities, having a space to exist, work, play, and connect can be a powerful thing. There are many ways to honor your community by creating space, and this panel will feature four booksellers who have done just that. You will leave this session with great hope for the future and promise of bookselling and with new ideas for creating space for the communities to which you belong. Speakers: Davis Shoulders, Atlas Books (Johnson City, Tennessee); Lee Francis, Red Planet Books and Comics (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Janet Jones, Source Booksellers (Detroit, Michigan); Jonah Zimiles, [words] Bookstore (Maplewood, New Jersey) Recorded February 23, 2023, at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle.   Theme by Constant Companion https://constantcompanion.bandcamp.com