Get Woke, Go Broke: Portland Feminist Bookstore 'In Other Words' Is Closing

RunawayGrain · 2018-06-06T19:31:12+00:00

...was founded on white, cis feminism (read: white supremacy).

Wait until feminism comes for white women.

User-31f64a4e · 2018-06-06T19:22:58+00:00

Most independent bookstores are closing.
Ones focusing on narrow interests are even more at risk.

That said, I am ... not sad.

lostapwbm · 2018-06-06T19:27:51+00:00

In Other Words, the Portland feminist bookstore and community center, has announced in a statement on its website that it will close at the end of June. The statement cites reasons including increased expenses and the lack of funds, volunteers, and board members, along with an inability to "reform and re-envision" a space founded on "white, cis feminism (read: white supremacy)" to make it more reflective of contemporary feminism.

As the In Other Words website says, the independent feminist bookstore and community center was founded in 1993, and moved from its original location on Southeast Hawthorne to its Northeast Killingsworth space in 2006. The mission of In Other Words, according to the website, is "to strengthen resistance against a culture of oppression. We seek to create a safer space where women, people of color, queer, trans, gender variant folks, workers, and those who live at the intersections of these identities can organize for self-determination and build a sustainable movement for liberation."

GET WOKE, GO BROKE.

Also, intersectional feminists are like locusts. They don't build anything. They aren't capable of building anything. The entire point of their existence is destruction, as they will admit below.

The statement continues: "We cannot continue because we know reform does not work. The current volunteers and board members stepped into and took over a space that was founded on white, cis feminism (read: white supremacy). It's really difficult, actually, impossible, for us to disentangle from that foundational ideology. Volunteers and board members tried to reform and re-envision the organization, and have found it unattainable to do, especially with so little resources. We have experienced this as a very real reminder that reform doesn't work. Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Capitalism cannot be reformed and ever serve the people. Abolition is the goal."

So, intersectional feminists are incapable of building ANYTHING while white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy exists in the world, however, they would like you to believe that they are capable of building the perfect, gynocentric utopia, despite having no proven ability to build anything and no articulated plans as to how to build said gynocentric utopia.

Do you notice anything wrong with that idea?

The closing of In Other Words is part of a larger trend of feminist bookstores going out of business. As the center's website says, when it opened in 1993, there were more than 200 feminist bookstores in the U.S.

Let me say it one more time: GET WOKE, GO BROKE. It's very easy to remember.

mcduncie · 2018-06-06T19:47:05+00:00

Portlandia has that women on women bookstore skit. The funniest sketches on the show.

Title	Get Woke, Go Broke: Portland Feminist Bookstore 'In Other Words' Is Closing
Author	lostapwbm
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Date	June 6, 2018 7:20 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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