We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

🥳 I have one copy left in the dealers hall tomorrow before 1pm! #WorldFantasyConvention2025

Here to support the heterosexual community at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I'm an ally 🫡

Asexuality in Fantasy book recs included: Claudie Arseneault Claire Kann Darcie Little Badger Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire Vicious; Vengeful - VE Schwab Perfect Assassin - KA Doore Not Your Backup - CB Lee Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 1/2 #WorldFantasyConvention2025

Alright @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social, we are ready 🫡 You can start now

I'm so excited for this event!

Still time to get a signed book dedicated to you or a friend! The event is tonight, gonna be fun :) Still a few tickets left

Event tomorrow (off site, too big for here 😅) with Tasha Suri, CL Clark, Francesca May, and VL Bovalino! Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/yorkl... If you can't make it grab the books online and note in the order what name you'd like it dedicated to! the-portal-bookshop.square.site

New window display, for no reason at all 🫡

Did you see the mega bundle for #AceWeek ?? Did you look at those books? Because I have read a significant chunks of them, and they alone would be worth the $50 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p... 🌈📚 #AsexualBooks #QueerSFF

Got some new badges 👀

Asexual bouquet! I still don't quite know what merited flowers but happy bookshop day to us I guess :)

Just did a sloth sticker restock at @portalbookshop.bsky.social including refilling the flag sloths and adding the dnd sloths! Also available at my etsy in now much more limited numbers: illustratedjaishop.etsy.com

It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a £250 gift card. EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

Never quite sure how to react when iconic LGBT+ figures who've helped shape my life come by the shop...

My actual wish is that my enemies figure out how to heal whatever splinter exists in their soul that causes them, and us, so much pain. They get one go at being alive, same as all of us, and they're so consumed by hatred for people they'll never meet that they damage the fabric of humanity.

@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social Heeeey so have you guys looked into this...?

🚨 NEW 🚨 Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

We already have our pins available in the ever-wonderful @portalbookshop.bsky.social. But does anyone know of any other lovely queer and/or nerdy bookshops, cafes or the like that may be interested in selling our wares? Preferably in the UK, pls.

The prize has never had this much publicity before. Things have flipped, from what I can see, and at this point I think anyone staying in is harming their sales

14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies Judges: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped. We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/donate/

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!

Got a target for books to sell today, so trying to trick the hyperfocus into restocking the website (yell if you want anything in particular to jump the queue, folks) Reminder, also, we have preorders up for the next October Daye book! the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/-pre...

Have you written to your MP about the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act? Our wonderful pals at Scottish Trans have created a resource that you can use to write to your MP and your MSP too. You'll find it at www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour... #Trans #Nonbinary #TransRights

Might be worth sticking some more signatures on this - not because the government'll *do* anything about it, but because it's another way to show that these asshats don't have the support they think they do: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... (Also transphobia *shouldn't* be a protected belief)

Absolute 100/10 move from @titanbooks.bsky.social, delightful. Got back from surgery recovery to find an info pack with all their upcoming queer releases, plus some bookmarks and bits! Spectacular, I love it, this is the ultimate ADHD friendly marketing, can everyone else please do this too 😂

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

I made a spreadsheet of more than 300 sapphic books that came out in the first half of 2025. Feel free to make a copy and sort by genre or representation. This includes any book with a sapphic main character, but you can filter by specific representation: lesbrary.com/sapphic-book...

Need something to read? In the last six months, transfeminine authors have published over 108 new books to keep you busy on the beach! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 As always, this list is a collaborative effort, so thank you so much to all of the authors and editors who helped me put it together 🩷🩷🩷

hey if you're from the UK and have 10 min this weekend consider filling out a response to the EHRC consultation related to the recent transphobic supreme court ruling. There's a step by step guide on the TransActual site. you have time until the 30th of June! 🏳️‍⚧️ transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

This sounds incredible, and having had some sessions with those involved, I wholeheartedly recommend them as tutors

Every bookshop curates its selection. Every book is a choice. Really glad places are starting to make more ethical choices :)

Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉 We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...

If you're a British trans person or ally I really think you MUST fill in the EHRC consultation on whether to segregate trans people from society If you need a hand doing that, @notrightruth.bsky.social and I will be doing a respond together live stream Tuesday 8pm! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfw...

Reminder that whilst the event has been postponed, @poopraven.bsky.social and doggo will be at @portalbookshop.bsky.social in York on Monday from about 3pm. Go chat! Get books signed! Marvel at the fluffiness that is Lucas!

Reminder that if you want to enter this @portalbookshop.bsky.social giveaway, you need to REPLY to it (not just boost) with your favourite book by or featuring a trans person. The point is not just to give people free books (though that is something I frequently do), but to talk about trans books.

In all of this [waves hands] we should also find time for trans joy and our own restoration. [UK BOOK GIVEAWAY] I am giving away two £20 @portalbookshop.bsky.social gift cards. To enter, reply to this with your favourite book by or featuring a trans person. Check my notes: ⬇️

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Reminder that if you preorder Daughter of Tides from @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social, @portalbookshop.bsky.social, The Ripped Bodice or Tropes & Trifles, you can have some Kraken pirate gold! 😍

In the UK, you can preorder from @portalbookshop.bsky.social in York (who are lovely and also deserve your support) the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/-pre...

The BFS is excited to announce our first in-person event in York, AK Faulkner’s Sword of Avalon book launch, Monday 9th June 2025, 6:30pm, Portal Bookshop, York. Ticket: tinyurl.com/portalafk @poopraven.bsky.social @katiebruce.bsky.social @portalbookshop.bsky.social

Book launch book launch book launch... at @portalbookshop.bsky.social! Come along and hear me ramble 😁 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sword-of-a...

And the next October Daye (the first published by Tor!) is up for preorder! Silver and Lead by @seananmcguire.bsky.social, out at the end of September the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/-pre...

Installment Immortality is in stock 🥰 the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/inst...

If the tracking is to be believed, Installment Immortality by @seananmcguire.bsky.social should be hitting the shop tomorrow! the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/-pre...

I visited @portalbookshop.bsky.social and the Rainbow cafe for the first time in York. An amazing welcoming hub with some inspired community events on offer. I also had the pleasure of meeting @malin.Fox (insta) who creates hand embroidered monuments for Trans day of rememberence, link in next post

Today's #LGBTplusHM25 events include some fun short talks at the cafe, which you can get involved with too if there's something you want to share with people ❤️