More about Feminist Bookstore News

Feminist Bookstore News published from 1976 through 2000. A complete archive of all issues are available at the Lesbian Poetry Archive here.

Explore Feminist Bookstore News through the "Descriptive Database of Articles in Feminist Bookstore News 1976-2000 (including Author, Category, Graphics, and Descriptive Notes)" generated by Sinister Wisdom volunteers. This data visualization was completed by Salome "Sam" Grasland and Nayeli Jaime at The Information Lab.
*Note: Best performance for the searchable database is through Mozilla's Firefox.

During some of the early years there were "Lavender Pages" which were folded into existing issues and numbered separately with letters. These "Lavender pages" were distributed only to the subscribers who were feminist/women's bookstores.

Feminist Bookstore News published five catalogues. These are archived separately on this page.

Seajay continued Feminist Bookstore News with Books to Watch Out For. There is a separate archive page for BTWOF here.

Archives from Feminist Bookstore News are at the San Francisco Public Library. The finding aid is here.

Sinister Wisdom has been working on this archive project on Feminist Bookstore News and more information about the project is available here.

Interested in starting a feminist bookstore? We have compiled a list of all of the articles that may be of interest.