Eleanor's Norfolk

Eleanor's Norfolk your local q***r, worker-owned bookstore & creative community space

we're coming at you from the heart of empire with a few reads for this 19th of June...The End of White World Supremacy b...
06/19/2026

we're coming at you from the heart of empire with a few reads for this 19th of June...

The End of White World Supremacy by Malcolm X
The Juneteenth Story by Alliah L Agostini & Sawyer Cloud
Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
We Refuse by Kelly Carter Jackson
Original Sins by Eve L Ewing
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
Night Flyer by Tiya Miles
My Mother was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet
Abolition is Love by Marcus Ware & Alannah Fricker
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Turn Up for Freedom by E Morales-Williams

available in-shop for purchase or (if you're a community library member) check-out, via our pages on & , and/or check your local city library.

we're here til 8 for all the reads & convos about global Black liberation. then join our friends at Kei Designs -

Commemorate Juneteenth with them from as we laugh love and vibe with each other! You can expect:
•spades ♠️
•good music 🎶
•free drinks 🥤
•free food (from the grill) 🌭
•3 chances to win a $25 gas card ⛽️
• a toast at 8pm to honor Blackness 🥂

This jovial event highlights Black abolitionist history, unity, and culture. Join us as we eat, drink, dance, and celebrate being Black! The only thing we are requesting is that ALL GUESTS BRING BEAUTIFUL BLACK ENERGY! This is a FREE EVENT!

june 19, 6-10pm
2807 E Virginia Beach Blvd, Unit C, Norfolk VA, 23504
aka shop

***rfeministcollective

[slide 1 - a photo is taken from above. centered in the photo is a collection of books of various sizes and colors, laid out on top of a wooden table. the titles are listed above in the caption from top left to bottom right. to the left of the display is a house plant, copies of , and pinbacks.
slide 2 - a blue graphic features photos of Black people in revolution and joy. on the graphic, text reads "humanities behind bars presents: juneteenth jubille, 19th June Party" and ]

this month for our radical studies book club, we're getting into In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Com...
06/19/2026

this month for our radical studies book club, we're getting into In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities by Joy James

"Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or q***r, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge, we need a different operational base to recreate the world. It is not going to be a celebrity savior. Never was, never will be. If you're in a religious tradition that is millennia-old, consider how the last savior went out. It was always going to be bloody. It was always going to be traumatic. But there's a beauty to facing the reality of our lives. Not our lives as they're broken apart, written about and then sold back to us in academic or celebrity discourse. But our lives as we understand them. The most important thing is showing up. Showing up and learning how to live by and with others, learning how to reinvent ourselves in this increasing wasteland. That's the good life."

come through and chat about exactly what showing up means & how we can do it wholly and honestly when everything in the world feels overwhelming.

sunday, june 28, 11am
801 boush st, ste b

see ya then!

***rfeministbookstore

[slide 1 - a hand holds up In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities by Joy James in front of a bookstore. the cover is light blue and features a globe with the title and author in brown text. a green post-it on the right middle of the cover with the date of the book club written on it in black sharpie, sunday, june 28, 11am
slide 2 - the same hand holds up the same book in the same location, this time with the back of the book highlighted. the back is the same light blue and in brown text, the above quoted piece is written. the bottom of the book reads Joy James' Revolutionary Love is umph-degree love; or love beyond measure. It is anything love. It is love without recknoning. It is love that dares all things, beyond which others may find the spirit-force to survive; to live to fight another day. such love is also figthing instelf, for the sake of ensuring that others may live - Mumia Abu-Jamal]

a pride month note that's been ringing in our brains from the introduction to Homosexual Intifada: A Q***r Palestinian A...
06/13/2026

a pride month note that's been ringing in our brains from the introduction to Homosexual Intifada: A Q***r Palestinian Anthology by Hannah Moushabeck & George Abraham -

"what, then, to say of the body at the end of empire?...the ruling class is more than willing to dispose of our bodies on a mass scale for their continued profit. it is a lesson our q***r and trans kin have been embodying for generations, fighting against colonial mediated bio-disposability in the AIDS pandemic...

Palestinian and q***r struggles, non-metaphorically, are interconnected at an intimate, embodied level. we are the bodies that the bio-political paves over in its living; the permissible slaughter, however fast or slow our deaths are...what are all of our bodies if not the exact targets the ruling class need to dispose of, by any means necessary, to keep the rotted heart of this current world order beating?

we hope these works, which treat q***r Palestinian life on our own terms, give you clarity and precision of language that feels dangerous to the imperial English of our daily lives. "

this anthology brings together the voices of q***r Palestinian writers from both the diaspora & homeland through essays, short stories, poetry, comics, photo essays, and memoir.

grab this in-store (while available), order through our online shop, and/or request your local library to stock it 🏳️‍🌈

***rfeministcollective

oh, hey. we're just hanging out, sharing these lil micro zines & talking about being giddily q***r, proud, & anti-capita...
06/13/2026

oh, hey. we're just hanging out, sharing these lil micro zines & talking about being giddily q***r, proud, & anti-capitalist in this moment of collective grief and AI. stop by 'til 8 🪐

***rfeministcollective

y'all ever notice the little flame logo that speckles our shelves? it represents on of our favorite indie publishers - ...
06/11/2026

y'all ever notice the little flame logo that speckles our shelves? it represents on of our favorite indie publishers -

was founded in 1970 by Florence Howe & focused on providing essential texts for the emerging field of women’s studies. they reprinted classics by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and recovered “lost” women’s writing from around the world.

they aim to dismantle barriers to access in publishing & provide opportunities to historically marginalized writers through initiatives such as our Emerging Feminist Writers Program and Our Amethyst Editions imprint. they also offer a paid apprenticeship program to provide mentorship to the future feminists in publishing.

Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen books a year and specializes in an array of genres including literary fiction, activist nonfiction, literature in translation, hybrid memoirs, and more.

pro-tip - look to them for pieces that are lyrically gorgeous and bring forward unheard stories. if you don't where to start, one of our favorite books from them is Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf📚

***rfeministcollective

sustainer rec coming at you ---> Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a collection of Indonesian focused ...
06/10/2026

sustainer rec coming at you ---> Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a collection of Indonesian focused speculative fiction & dark absurdism. the stories within ask what it means to be almost happy, where joy is just out reach. told in micro-fiction and short stories, Pasaribu explores devastation, q***rness, and belief.

on the shelf now for purchase or check-out

reading is better together, especially when we're talking with .bookworm! you've got one more week to read the genre-be...
06/09/2026

reading is better together, especially when we're talking with .bookworm! you've got one more week to read the genre-bending q***r fantasy debut, The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach before you can pop-in on sunday, june 14, 11am to discuss with the super ultra graphic modern book club crew 🪸

we gotta share a little local love - 🦚 to the rad person who dropped off some dental dams for the free store (just as we...
06/08/2026

we gotta share a little local love -

🦚 to the rad person who dropped off some dental dams for the free store (just as we talked about adding them!)
💫 to the lovely community member who add their beautiful rad zines to the free zine wall
🌛 to the community member, Kyra, who is leading a *virtual* weight stigma & body image therapy group through growing grounded counseling ([email protected])

y'all are cool & we're grateful to share in community with you

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.-Nikki Giovannirecently, i listened to Against B...
06/07/2026

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
-Nikki Giovanni

recently, i listened to Against Breaking by Ada Limón and it was such a lovely welcoming back to an art form that encourages dreaming & connection through the ability of words to create and inspire. lyrically gorgeous, this slim read speaks to sharing the truth and the strength in tenderness. if you're looking for a read that will hold & guide, this is it.

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your weekly reminder that if you're into audiobooks, you can find our recs & support us through - an audiobook platform that helps keep your local indie spots open and the folks who run them paid. if you're not able to support on libro, check out your local library's listening collection or check the out the many open mics we have in the area

we've been thinking about James Baldwin this week - when we started talking about his impact on us as readers, we starte...
06/06/2026

we've been thinking about James Baldwin this week - when we started talking about his impact on us as readers, we started to think about books that evoke his enduring influence. a few that came to us...

- Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
- Essential Poems by Pat Parker
- The Will To Change by bell hooks
- Q***r Communal Kinship Now! by Robinou
- To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
- Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
- A Body Made Home by Kai Marshall Green
- Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
- My Bad by Hugh Ryan
- I Put A Spell On You by Nina Simone
- No God but Us by Bobuq Sayed
- Jimmy's Faith by Christopher Hunt
- Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
- The Gang's All Q***r by Vanessa R Panfil
- Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- James Baldwin by Bill V. Mullen
- Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

here, q***r, joyful, and loud always & forever xoxo

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23510

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