Bluestockings
Pore over the latest alternative journals, learn about queer and gender studies or listen to a feminist reading at Bluestockings in the Lower East Side. Walk in with an open mind—you’ll get a big helping of activism along with your fair trade coffee and vegan baked goods. According to its website, this multi-functional bookstore, café and activist center offers educational programming to promote a “society that is infinitely creative, truly democratic, equitable, ecological and free.” Now that’s an idea we can all read more about.
Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street
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