http://mattblair.ca/2009/12/17/in-memory-of-three-activists/ Toronto creative classer and family man Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 http://mattblair.ca/2009/12/17/in-memory-of-three-activists/#comment-692 Matt Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:35:27 +0000 http://www.mattblair.ca/?p=290#comment-692 Hey, NMR! I didn’t even know you were in the Toronto area. I haven’t spent much time down at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, so I can’t say for sure how much of their material is focused and how much is general. Without knowing how much of a balance they’re striking between the two, I’d hesitate to say they’ve got a rigid agenda. Finding out is all the more reason to drop in, I’d say.

]]> http://mattblair.ca/2009/12/17/in-memory-of-three-activists/#comment-212 Not Michael Richards Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:03:37 +0000 http://www.mattblair.ca/?p=290#comment-212 Unfortunately that’s what happens when you open a bookstore with such a rigid agenda. A lot of people, myself included, would shell out at a place like that if they stocked works outside the canon of feminist and anti-oppression Lit. I’m not disparaging these great movements, but most people who like to read often also like to read widely, which means they look for other literary genres. I don’t think it would diminish the store’s admirable ideology by carrying some light fiction or selling used paperbacks. I know a lot of people who hit every bookstore in town on payday looking for cheap classics and unknown surprises. I think that could save them. I’ve never owned a business though, so I might be wrong. Either way I should head over there before xmas and grab a tome or two. A bookstore closing is never a good thing.

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