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Signal boosts and reading tomorrow night!
Oct. 21st, 2014 10:36 amFirst, the signal boosts. There are, at last count, only 14 surviving feminist bookstores in the U.S, down form 100+ in the 1990s. One of them, Portland, Oregon's In Other Words Bookstore and Community Center (featured in Portlandia), and needs both volunteers and cash immediately to stay afloat. Please boost their Indiegogo and contribute if you can.
On a less dire note,despite historical evidence that women were the first brewers, they've been shoved out of the booming microbrewery business - only an infinitesimal number of the new brews are made by, let alone owned by women . Sidhe Brewing is out to change that ratio and is raising funds to open a new taproom and pub in St. Paul, MN. Women-brewed and women-operated, plus the east side of St. Paul really needs a destination location, just saying.
Speaking of fields where women were founders and once considered major players, there's a Kickstarter for a Notable Women In Computing playing card deck (2nd edition). The woman behind the deck is hoping to get them into schools and programs working with girls training for STEM careers.
Last, but not least, me! I'm doing a reading of recent work at DreamHaven Books, Art and Comics tomorrow (10/22) at 6:30. Details are here. I'll be reading from Blood Moon and from a new regency-style space opera and from something else. Plus, entertaining stories, cookies and going out afterwards.
On a less dire note,despite historical evidence that women were the first brewers, they've been shoved out of the booming microbrewery business - only an infinitesimal number of the new brews are made by, let alone owned by women . Sidhe Brewing is out to change that ratio and is raising funds to open a new taproom and pub in St. Paul, MN. Women-brewed and women-operated, plus the east side of St. Paul really needs a destination location, just saying.
Speaking of fields where women were founders and once considered major players, there's a Kickstarter for a Notable Women In Computing playing card deck (2nd edition). The woman behind the deck is hoping to get them into schools and programs working with girls training for STEM careers.
Last, but not least, me! I'm doing a reading of recent work at DreamHaven Books, Art and Comics tomorrow (10/22) at 6:30. Details are here. I'll be reading from Blood Moon and from a new regency-style space opera and from something else. Plus, entertaining stories, cookies and going out afterwards.