Burdock Book Collective

Burdock Book Collective We're radical feminist bookstore and community space in Birmingham that aims to support grassroots mo

Join us on June 30 at 6pm for our discussion of “Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance” edited by Naseer Ar...
06/03/2026

Join us on June 30 at 6pm for our discussion of “Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance” edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb.
About the book: “In each poem is a whole life—joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering—and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle. In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.”
Copies are available for purchase at Cha House. Please let us know if you need help affording a copy of the book. As always, come as you are, if you’ve read the book or not!

For the kiddos in your life!! On the bottom shelf which is full of amazing children’s books at ! Come get a copy and su...
06/01/2026

For the kiddos in your life!! On the bottom shelf which is full of amazing children’s books at ! Come get a copy and support burdock!

If you loved Hamnet (we did!!!), this book is new to our shelves at “Land” by Maggie O’farrell. Description: On a winds...
05/31/2026

If you loved Hamnet (we did!!!), this book is new to our shelves at “Land” by Maggie O’farrell. Description: On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home?

Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, Land is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.

Talk of the townnnnnn. Four new copies of this nytimes best seller have hit the shelves at . Katie and Meagan have both...
05/30/2026

Talk of the townnnnnn. Four new copies of this nytimes best seller have hit the shelves at . Katie and Meagan have both read these within a few days and have THOUGHTS. Let us know what you think in the comments and get a group together to book club this book!! Description of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke “A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.”

New to our shelves at . Tis the season for foraging and being outside with the trees!!! Come buy a a new summer read fr...
05/29/2026

New to our shelves at . Tis the season for foraging and being outside with the trees!!! Come buy a a new summer read from burdock book collective!

from the bottom of our hearts, thank you thank you thank you. our community really showed up for us in a time of need an...
05/28/2026

from the bottom of our hearts, thank you thank you thank you. our community really showed up for us in a time of need and it feels so good to be held and so good to be reminded that people in birmingham want a q***r and feminist bookstore to succeed. to our huge surprise, we raised enough to cover all our stolen cash within hours of asking. from 76+ donors, we raised $3,692 dollars. with an average donation of $48. all of the extra money we raised is going toward paying for postage and mailers and books for folks who are incarcerated in alabama prisons. this weekend, we already sent 47 packages with two books each to people in Aliceville FCI, Limestone Correctional, Birmingham Work Release, Holman Prison, Elmore Correctional and Ventress.
thank you to those who shared encouraging and supportive words, to those who donated large and small amounts and those who shared the post far and wide. if you are in need of a bookstore to sell books at a conference or author event, or source books for your book club, please reach out via email or dm! we hope to see y’all soon!

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Join us June 16th at 6pm at cha house to discuss “Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano. Copies available for purchase now at t...
05/26/2026

Join us June 16th at 6pm at cha house to discuss “Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano. Copies available for purchase now at the store!!
Description:A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of what it means to be a transgender woman in a world that consistently derides and belittles anything feminine. In a series of incisive essays, Serano draws on gender theory, her training as a biologist, her career in q***r activism, and her own experiences before and after her gender transition to examine the deep connections between sexism and transphobia. She coins the term transmisogyny to describe the specific discrimination trans women face—and she shows how, in a world where masculinity is seen as unquestionably superior to femininity, transgender women’s very existence becomes a threat to the established gender hierarchy.

Now updated with a new afterword on the contemporary anti-trans backlash, Whipping Girl makes the case that today’s feminists and transgender activists must work to embrace and empower femininity—in all of its wondrous forms—and to make the world safe and just for people of all genders and sexualities.

hey burdock community, our beloved bookstore has experienced some unfortunate events recently and we’re hoping you can h...
05/23/2026

hey burdock community, our beloved bookstore has experienced some unfortunate events recently and we’re hoping you can help keep us afloat. our cash box was stolen after our biggest book vending gig of the year. this has never happened to us before in all of our years of operating (since 2018). our total loss including square readers and cash is $1200.66.
as abolitionist feminists, we don’t involve the police and don’t believe in punishment as a solution to social problems. that means, when harm happens, we aim to dig deep into our community and ask for help.
for full transparency, we are a team of four people, about to bring on another leader. we provide burdock programming mostly on a volunteer basis. after thousands of hours of collective labor last year, we each took home $1000 dollars — split profits evenly. this is the first time in 8 years of operation that we made and profits, individually, from book sales. we love books. we love community. we love providings space to learn and grow and deepen relationships with each other and ourselves, but that costs money! we pay cha house in rent to sell our books there. our profit margins on books are already so so thin. so we are here to ask, can you help us make back the money we lost this month? could you donate $5, $10, $$25, $50 dollars to keep this tiny scrappy intersectional feminist bookstore alive? can you commit to buying more books from us? ordering and waiting a couple weeks for it to get here? it would mean the world to us. we love you and thank you. love, your feminist book slingers.

New to our burdock shelves! Come support your local feminist bookstore! Hours in bio. “Canon” by Paige Lewis. Descriptio...
05/21/2026

New to our burdock shelves! Come support your local feminist bookstore! Hours in bio. “Canon” by Paige Lewis. Description: Yara can’t comprehend why God has chosen them to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, Yara has never felt weaker—but with nothing left to lose, they strike a deal. Abandoning their solitary days of embroidery and obsessive cleaning, Yara reluctantly embarks on a perilous odyssey designed to prepare them for the daunting mission ahead.

Meanwhile, Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is determined to become the hero of this story. Desperately seeking the glory of God’s approval and the promise of heaven, where she hopes to reunite with her beloved mother, Adrena must first persuade Harpo, the leader of the Good Guys, that her plan is God’s will.

As their journeys unfold in a series of unforgettable adventures, Yara and Adrena are propelled toward each other and transformative revelations about life, death, and destiny in this intensely captivating, irreverent epic from a singularly brilliant new voice in fiction.

New to our shelves! Come support your local feminist bookstore. “Axis of Empire” by Afshin Matin Asgari. Description: Ir...
05/20/2026

New to our shelves! Come support your local feminist bookstore. “Axis of Empire” by Afshin Matin Asgari. Description: Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in the early nineteenth century made way for the next century’s oilmen, CIA agents, scholars, and arms dealers in the assertion of US imperial priorities. Whether Iran resisted or succumbed to US interests, it couldn’t fail to be shaped by the superpower.

Matin-Asgari offers fresh takes on familiar topics: America’s rise as a Middle East hegemon during the Cold War; the special relationship between Washington and the shah; the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis; the Iran-Iraq war; the Islamic Republic’s peculiar anti-imperialism; the decades of onerous American sanctions; Israel’s intervention in Iran-US relations; the ascendance of Trump; and the 2025 attempt by the United States and Israel to bring regime change to Tehran.

A labyrinthine tale of American imperial misadven­tures, Axis of Empire incorporates and challenges scholarly narratives while offering a sophisticated yet highly readable account of Iran-US history.

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