#MarginsBookselling

Discover how you can support, uplift and celebrate the #MarginsBookselling community all year long with The Word's #MarginsBookselling Month Action Calendar created in collaboration with bookseller, author and a previous Writers' Circle advocate for The Word, Danny Caine.

The calendar lists 31 actions we can all try and take to support bookstores, booksellers and the community. Practice these during #MarginsBookselling Month and all year long.

Download your copy using the link below. Share with your community, post to your websites, in your store, on socials and more!

DOWNLOAD CALENDAR*

*Please note the download includes two versions: an easy to print version and one more stylized depending on your use.

MARGINS BOOKSTORES GEAR

Support the #MarginsBookstores every day with
these t-shirts, tote bags, and coffee mugs.

All purchases will directly support the participating bookstores.

The Margins Bookstores Journal, now out of print, was the start of our map. It celebrated our #MarginsBookselling community through the wonderful artwork that helps us follow the butterfly wings, or climb the mauve vine, or root into the very earth beneath to find that community is not in the margins, but bubbling brightly all around.

Thank you to the wonderful Kah Yangni for these beautiful illustrations and to our publisher Chronicle Books.

THE MARGINS BOOKSTORES JOURNAL

Illustrated by Kah Yangni
Chronicle Books

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All proceeds support The Word

The Word is thrilled to collaborate with National Book Award Finalist Ingrid Rojas Contreras to bring this exclusive tee reminding us that the most important story is the one that lies untold in each of us.

"The Word is doing the labor that matters most — uplifting BIPOC booksellers and giving the floor to authors and writers who are writing from the margins. What happens when the margin takes centerstage? I feel a new literature and culture emerges, one that can define and tell of what has gone ignored or untold before. I am so thrilled to be joining The Word’s Writers’ Circle and look forward to supporting their mission."

- Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

2023 Word Writer's Circle Member

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ABOUT #MARGINSBOOKSELLING

#MarginsBookselling is a celebration of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, Disabled, and Neurodiverse booksellers and their communities. This is a community collaboration coordinated by The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary.

We are excited to support 200 booksellers and showcase 220+ bookstores via our map and database that are working to center diverse voices and stories.

A giant thank you to Bridget Watson-Payne, Natalie Butterfield, and the entire team at Chronicle Books for the incredible work that brought together the Margins Bookstores Journal, beautifully illustrated by Kah Yangni.

A message from The Word:

The Word is based in the city of Denver on the homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe peoples in the area known as Colorado which was traditionally home to at least 48 contemporary indigenous communities, each of which has made innumerable contributions to our region. We recognize that the map in this work has taken its form through genocide, theft, and forced removal. We acknowledge that these lands are unceded and continue to be indigenous lands. We recommend the following resources as a starting point for learning how we may each work to stop perpetuating systems of oppression and erasure:

Information about the Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Information about the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

National Congress of American Indians

Native Land Digital

The Native Governance Center

LANDBACK Movement

Find contemporary and historical native children’s books bibliographies

Members of the #MarginsBookselling Planning Committee have made donations to LANDBACK as we acknowledge and support this movement.

We invite you to donate as well here.