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It is with mixed feelings we announce that WOMEN IN PRINT will close on September 11th. When WOMEN IN PRINT opened in 1993 womens presses/publishers and bookstores across North America were still active, vibrant, and relevant. Our space has been used as a resource centre, providing information about womens events and services, most of which we have also supported through advertising, gift certificates, and donations. In the past twelve years, WOMEN IN PRINT has hosted over 500 book events and author readings, on-site and in the community. Today, all but a very few feminist enterprises have gone and we are the last feminist bookstore in British Columbia to close. We want to thank YOU, our loyal customers/friends… too many to name but too few to keep us going. Your support has meant a lot to us. Max is going to live with Kim. Also, we are very grateful to the many young women who have worked alongside us with such energy and enthusiasm … especially Dorothy, Alexandra, Morgan, and Carol. We could not have survived the last six years without Kim. WOMEN IN PRINT will keep her website and do some online sales. We will also continue to co-sponsor readings and launches about town. We trust that you will continue to support the independent booksellers who bring you independent voices and we wish you all the very best for the future. We leave you with two quotes that say “it” better than we can, Louise Hager and Carol Dale Simone de Beauvoir in 1976 to her circle of young feminist cohorts: “Ive said this to you and I shall say it again. The few womens rights we have managed to extract by struggling long and hard these past few years are fragile. Very fragile. All it takes is another economic, political, or religious crisis for them to be challenged. All of you, as long as you live, you will have to watch that society and the politicians dont cunningly nibble away at these rights. Youll have to be on your guard, dont ever forget that.” nikko snyder in 2004 as part of her editorial in the last issue of Canadian feminist magazine good girl : “Instinctively, I had always wanted good girl to be a self-sustaining, profitable enterprise, and though I couldnt articulate why, something in my gut railed against the perception of social justice as charity and the common judgment that feminist work that operates within a ‘for-profit structure is somehow ‘not feminist enough. In my mind, feminist business was nothing short of a necessity. If feminism cant exist and thrive in the real world along with racism and fundamentalism (which seems to be doing just fine), what good is it?”

 

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