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Tomorrow! 6:30pm
Join for an evening in conversation with Dr Hind Elhinnawy, author of Secular Muslim Feminism.
We'll discuss how Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, and how to challenge harmful narratives of oppression & victimhood!
www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
A good list 🙂 Can I also suggest:
@scarlettletters.co.uk - Bethnal Green, London
@penfight.bsky.social - Manchester
www.commonpress.co.uk - London
@thebookishtype.bsky.social - Leeds
@toqs.bsky.social - Plymouth
@folkestonebookshop.bsky.social - Folkestone
Tonight!
A dream launch for Logging Off last night at @scarlettletters.co.uk 🥹♥️
A photo of the book Logging Off by Adele Walton, with "signed copy" stickers attached.
Thank you to everyone who came to a sold-out launch of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World by @adelewalton.bsky.social
We have a few signed copies available - get in quickly while stocks last!
This Sunday!
Join author Juliana Gleeson to discuss her fantastic new book and bold overview of intersex liberation, Hermaphrodite Logic.
We'll be joined by Eros and Empire author Alex Stoffel.
Tickets start at just £2, or buy the book for free entry!
www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
Our very first FICTION book club!
Join us on Sun 29 June at 3pm to discuss Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin.
We’re offering 10% off when you order this book via our online shop, or buy it instore, for the next 3 weeks.
Register for free or PWYC!
www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
TONIGHT!
💖Sapphic Author Night💖
Come down to The Scarlett Letters tonight for a conversation about writing sapphic women in fiction between authors Hannah Deitch and Laura Kay!
⏰6:30pm - 8:30pm
📍140 Cambridge Heath Road, E1 5QJ
www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
A wide shot of The Scarlett Letter's exhibition corner, comprised of two large pinboards with photographs, captions, and pride flags pinned on. In front is a table with a selection of books and magazines on the theme of SW rights and LGBT+ pride.
Caring about the lives, health and safety of SWs is an ESSENTIAL part of supporting the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
Come visit us any day in Pride month to see our exhibit in person, and pick up something from our recommended reading table!
While not a queer identity in and of itself, SW is a survival strategy for often the poorest and most marginalised. Due to structural discrimination, LGBTQ+ people are overrepresented within the sex worker community.
As part of their activism for trans people following Stonewall, Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), primarily catering to homeless queer youth who were very likely to be selling sx to meet their basic needs.
Photograph of Marsh P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera smiling on a street.
Pride and SW rights go hand in hand. Without them, "Pride" as we know it today simply would not exist. SWs participated in nearly all of the iconic queer uprisings we commemorate today, including Stonewall.
Images of the occupation of Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon pinned to a pinboard
More than 100 SWs occupied the church to protest against police harassment, unsafe working conditions, and the lack of legal protections.
Their actions helped galvanise the SW rights movement, and later began being commemorated around the world as International Sx Workers' Day.
Red hand-written sign on a pin board which reads 'This pride month June 2nd marks the 50th anniversary of International Sex Workers' Day'. Underneath is the start of an exhibition with pinned images and captions.
Today, 2 June 2025, marks FIFTY YEARS of International Sx Workers' Day!
This Pride Month, we'll have an exhibit up all month featuring the 1975 occupation of Saint Nizier Church in Lyon, France.
Pride month is here!
Join us tonight to celebrate a community without whom "Pride" as we know it today would quite literally not exist ✊🏳️🌈
With Morgan M Page, Luca Stevenson, Jake Hall and Marin Scarlett!
⏰6:30pm - 8:30pm
📍The Scarlett Letters bookshop
www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
Our zine section has been overflowing, so we've added a bench to platform a few more of your favourites!