Bookwoman

08/07/2026

Up coming up this August at ! We know yall don't wanna miss these! You can find more info or RSVP at our website and through the See you there! 😁

08/06/2026

08/06/2026

THIS FRIDAY-- come check out the BookWoman pop up at the Sapphic Summer Group Exhibition!

08/05/2026

Happy Yall! Check out these new titles on our shelves this week!📖

08/02/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Lex Loro , the winner of this month’s Q***r Cinema: Lost & Found series giveaway! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who entered! If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry—we’ll be back with another giveaway next month as the Austin Film Society Q***r Cinema: Lost & Found series continues. 🌈🎬

There’s still time to join us for BY HOOK OR BY CROOK next week at AFS Cinema! A trans and butch buddy film as radical as the day it was made, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is the story of Shy, a gender-bending dreamer whose plans for a life of crime collide with Valentine, an adoptee searching for her birth mother. Together, these two misfits forge an unlikely, yet genuine bond. Presented in a new 4K restoration.

📍 AFS Cinema
🗓 Wednesday, August 5
🕕 6:00 PM

🎟 Tickets: https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/by-hook-or-by-crook-3/

Use discount code AGLIFF for $4 off tickets (limit two discounts per person, per film).

We’ll see you at the movies—and keep an eye on aGLIFF for next month’s giveaway! ✨

***rCinema

07/29/2026

Happy birthday to Judy Grahn , internationally-recognized poet, writer, and social theorist. She is the author of fourteen books including the groundbreaking Another Mother Tongue, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, and most recently, A Simple Revolution. Eruptions of Inanna, The Highest Apple, and Hanging on Our Own Bones.

In her trademark lusciously erotic writing, Judy Grahn illuminates eight dramatic stories exploring the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna’s power and relevance for contemporary q***r feminist audiences. Psychologically rich, morally and ethically exhilarating, passionate and full of life, the stories collected in Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power reimagine central western myths, including the book of Job and Gilgamesh with women and q***r people as central actors. In every sentence, Grahn proves how revisiting origin stories is a vital world-making activity.

“This is a poet’s study of ancient poems, delightfully readable, exuberant, and filled with refreshing vitality." (Ariana Reines)

"Eruptions of Inanna may be her most ambitious, groundbreaking work. At the heart of the work is the retelling of the myths surrounding Inanna and their startling afterlives in both high culture and rebel communities. Drawing from studies of Sumerian culture, religious scholarship, poetry, art, myth, and a wealth of shared imaginations, Grahn—poet, prophet, seer and soothsayer—draws forth Inanna from myth to majesty.” (Michael Bronski)

Judy Grahn's Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power and The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Le***an Poetic Tradition are Sapphic Classics from Sinister Wisdom, reprint editions of iconic works of le***an writing—or new works—from influential le***an writers. Inaugurated in 2013 with Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt, the Sapphic Classics series brings important collections of le***an writing back into print, making them available to reach new readers. You can find Sapphic Classics wherever you buy your books—or on our website sinisterwisdom.org, linked in our bio.