The Portal Bookshop

Added it! 🫡❤️

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a woman says " everybody be cool be cool " Alt: Amy from Brooklyn 99, visibly tense, vehemently says "Everybody be cool, be cool!"

Never quite sure how to react when iconic LGBT+ figures who've helped shape my life come by the shop...

Absolutely. Coming out in physical form just in time for Halloween. Hardback or paperback?

Absolutely, and sorry for the silence, life has been wild. It's landed in today's delivery if you're still after a copy?

It has landed with us 🫡 Box stacks are happening

Needs updating, award is cancelled this year

I wanna say left, the staircase is on the right as you face the stage. I sat on the right and feel like things were a tiny bit obscured there but there wasn't much that would be equivalently blocked on the left as long as you're not WAY over. It's mostly very central

My actual wish is that my enemies figure out how to heal whatever splinter exists in their soul that causes them, and us, so much pain. They get one go at being alive, same as all of us, and they're so consumed by hatred for people they'll never meet that they damage the fabric of humanity.

@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social

Heeeey so have you guys looked into this...?

A copy of the letter. The full text can be found on our website.

🚨 NEW 🚨

Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

The Nerdy Queer at a market, selling their wares.

We already have our pins available in the ever-wonderful @portalbookshop.bsky.social. But does anyone know of any other lovely queer and/or nerdy bookshops, cafes or the like that may be interested in selling our wares?
Preferably in the UK, pls.

Some of the books aren't available from the main UK wholesaler, so they're not all in the usual queer bookshops. And Queer as Folklore is caught in the Unbound/Boundless fiasco - most copies won't give @sachacoward.bsky.social any royalties, so follow his lead on how best to support him 🫡

The prize has never had this much publicity before. Things have flipped, from what I can see, and at this point I think anyone staying in is harming their sales

The Polari first prize Longlist with books by Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari Prize Longlist with books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies crossed out to show they've withdrawn

14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.

First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas

Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies

Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

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We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.

We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/

Polari first book prize Longlist with Sacha coward, Jason okundaye, Amy twigg, and Mae diansangu's books crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari book prize Longlist, with no books withdrawn by authors.

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.

Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Oh no! Does sound like a Square issue, I'll have a poke around and see what I can find. In the meantime make sure you accepted all cookies (I'm so sorry, I've tried to limit them and the site often just stops working if you decline them) and if no joy for either of us I can put it through manually

Your own work & visibility is playing an important role in bringing people on side - I'm willing to bet a number of people at the Supreme Court protests were there because you educated or influenced them at some point. You've been informative and influential for me before. Keep doing that, louder? ❤️

It's so hard to see a way through. Fighting on politics, media, street level, & legal fronts all at once is exhausting. Personally I think the media onslaught & endless transphobic opinion pieces are a main driver of everything else, so I love QueerAF's work to counter that bsky.app/profile/wear...

Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!

Have you done the T Kingfisher Paladin romances?

Also (I've not read it yet, I need to) I have heard good things about Seven Recipes for Revolution which just came out

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(Pre-Order) Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire | The Portal Bookshop Note: this is a preorder and will be shipped or held for you when stock becomes availableSilver and Leadby Seanan McGuireSeries: October Daye - 19Format: Hardback 400 pages Publisher: Tor BooksISBN: 9...

Got a target for books to sell today, so trying to trick the hyperfocus into restocking the website (yell if you want anything in particular to jump the queue, folks)

Reminder, also, we have preorders up for the next October Daye book!

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A lot of stuff I stock is from seeing recs, lists, and people on here. Which then translates into multiple high street sales

Trans people belong. Email your MP now and stand up for trans rights! Illustration of Great Britain. Next to it are the logos for the Equality Network, Scottish Trans, and TransActual

Have you written to your MP about the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act?

Our wonderful pals at Scottish Trans have created a resource that you can use to write to your MP and your MSP too. You'll find it at www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...

#Trans #Nonbinary #TransRights

Petition: Stop "gender critical beliefs" being protected under the Equality Act We think removing the protection of the Equality Act for "gender critical beliefs" could better protect trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. It could support organisations to properly protect ...

Might be worth sticking some more signatures on this - not because the government'll *do* anything about it, but because it's another way to show that these asshats don't have the support they think they do: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

(Also transphobia *shouldn't* be a protected belief)

I don't doubt it happens (heavens I have been in fandom for decades, I've seen it happen) but I'm very pleased to reassure that it's not the case for Spectred Isle!

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I truly don't understand comments like that quoted. Like... you didn't write it though, the machine did. How do you get a sense of achievement from that?

I have been spoiled rotten and sent an ARC of Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree 😍

And I'm laid up *again* so I have time to read it, in between being grumpy about not being allowed to move

At least the book is fun so far 😅

Hard agree! And I apologise, I make mistakes when I'm overexcited 😅