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Wooden Shoe Books

Philadelphia, PA

LGBTQIA+ Owned

The Wooden Shoe is an all-volunteer collectively-run Infoshop located in Philadelphia, PA that seeks to embody the principles of anarchism and other movements for social justice. We strive to provide our local community with radical and non-traditional sources of written, digital, and spoken information. We wish to be an empowering resource for activism, organizing, art, self-education, dialogue, community-building, and the anti-capitalist struggle.

Wooden Shoe Books Recommendations

Recommendations from staffers at Wooden Shoe Books, an all-volunteer anarchist bookstore in South Philadelphia

Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones

Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

There There by Tommy Orange

The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Unapologetic by Charlene Carruthers

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

1984 And The Spanish Civil War by Paul Read

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Transgender History, second edition by Susan Stryker

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