Hive Mind Books
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
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We are a queer independent bookstore & coffeeshop in Bushwick. 219 Irving Ave, Brooklyn
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Jules Wernersbach
about 1 month ago
Hive Mind Books is now taking pre-orders for signed copies. We ship most places. Thank you for supporting both my queer book and my queer bookstore.
www.hivemindbooks.com/signed-work-...
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Jules Wernersbach
about 1 month ago
Very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming novel, WORK TO DO, coming 4/7 from University of Iowa Press! (Booksellers, it's distributed by Chicago Distribution Center and will be available at Ingram.) Many thanks to Shelf Awareness for revealing the cover in today's newsletter!
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The Transfeminine Review
about 1 month ago
Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
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The 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards
Over 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025.
https://thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/31/the-2025-tfr-readers-choice-awards/
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LittlePuss Press
about 2 months ago
🫠 OUR HOLIDAY SALE CLOSES AT THE END OF THE YEAR $10 gets you EVERY E-BOOK we have ever made because WE LOVE YOU All print backlist is 25% OFF because WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THEM 🫠⬇️ Descend into 2026 with 💵 CHEEP 💵 LittlePuss Press books!
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'25 Holiday Sale — SHOP — LittlePuss Press
https://www.littlepuss.net/shop/25-holiday-sale
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“Queer people... we’ve been told to hide in the dark, that’s why nightlife & queer culture have... been hand-in-hand... [Hive Mind Books] is broad daylight. We’re not only telling you to come here & be as gay as you want... we’re also asking you not to hide yourself.”
gaycitynews.com/hive-mind-bo...
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Queer bookstore Hive Mind Books builds community in Brooklyn
At the start of last summer, shortly after Kaitlyn Crockett moved to New York City, she opened her smartphone and searched for the nearest locations matching
https://gaycitynews.com/hive-mind-books-store-brooklyn-community/
about 2 months ago
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We’ll see you out at Brooklyn Pride tomorrow, rain or shine. Come say hi. We’ll have a ton of books by queer and trans writers, and some stickers and freshly spray painted tote bags to give out. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
8 months ago
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Happening at the shop tonight: Queer Writing Night 6:30-8:00pm This is good, heads down writing time. Get some words on the page and meet fellow queer and trans writers. Free to attend, no purchase required to be here. RSVP:
tinyurl.com/4z56rddj
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Margaret Killjoy
8 months ago
some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions
An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.
https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a-demonstrators-guide-to-understanding-riot-munitions-and-how-to-defend-against-them
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
8 months ago
The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.
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Niko Stratis
8 months ago
Happy 1 month anniversary to the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Thank you to everyone who has grabbed a copy, read it, written me about it, posted about it, listened to the audiobook, and more. Thank you everyone who helped get me here, here's to the days ahead.
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June events at Hive Mind Books! Come out and see us in Bushwick, or find us at one of our events on the road this month. Queer author events! 🌈 Queer community events! 🌈 See you at Brooklyn Pride with a pop-up queer bookstore! Check
hivemindbooks.com
for event info. HAPPY PRIDE!
9 months ago
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We had our biggest turnout yet for Queer Writing Night tonight. Damn it feels good to sit in a room full of writers typing and scribbling. And so good to meet so many other q/t writers and hear the stories we're all working on. Take your book bans and shove them. We're still writing.
9 months ago
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Kick off Pride month with a great big queer variety show! Dykes On Tour is coming to Bushwick June 5. We're working with author Samantha Mann on a fabulous night of entertainment at Starr Bar. Check out this lineup! Tix available now. Sliding scale available:
tinyurl.com/mr2cj6yn
9 months ago
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Such a fun event! Love a graphic novel reading!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Chica Marx
9 months ago
WRITING ON RAVING
@orbooks.bsky.social
at
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
219 Irving ave BK.
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We love this for all of us.
add a skeleton here at some point
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The Evergreen Review
9 months ago
Join us next Sun, 5/18, 6–8 p.m., for a book swap at Daddy’s Bar in Ridgewood, NYC! Bring up to 10 books to trade! AND each drink you buy earns a chance to win raffle prizes, such as Topos &
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
gift certificates, Evergreen merch, & Queen of Hearts burlesque show tix!
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Chica Marx
9 months ago
Promise I will pick a fabulous outfit if u come to WRITING ON RAVING book party | May 14 7pm-midnight | at LSD in Brooklyn | I'll be reading with a fabulous line-up with DJs to follow | Books by
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
| Tix start at $20 | Tix link here:
www.eventcreate.com/e/writing-on...
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We were a busy, busy bookstore in April. So many events! So many lavender matchas! Spring is here. May is also gonna keep us running. We have tons of queer author and community events on the calendar. Take a look at our full schedule:
www.hivemindbooks.com/events
9 months ago
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PRH 11 is THE box. Accept no substitutes.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Stephanie Burt
9 months ago
Reminder for ppl in Brooklyn/ Queens/ NYC: Marisa Crawford and I do a Super Gay Thing Wed May 7
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
@harvardpress.bsky.social
and you might consider picking up a free ticket in advance!
www.eventbrite.com/e/super-gay-...
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Super Gay Poems: Stephanie Burt & Marisa Crawford
Hive Mind Books, Bushwick's queer bookstore, welcomes poet, critic, and scholar Steph Burt in conversation with Marisa Crawford.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/super-gay-poems-stephanie-burt-marisa-crawford-tickets-1328044008379
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Chica Marx
10 months ago
WRITING ON RAVING (the book
@orbooks.bsky.social
) launch May 14 7PM-Midnight at LSD in Brooklyn | Readings + DJs + books for sale from
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
Tix here, from $25—
www.eventcreate.com/e/writing-on...
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Writing on Raving: Book Launch Party | May 14, 2025 - May 15, 2025
Writing on Raving: Book Launch Party on May 14, 2025 - May 15, 2025. Find event and ticket information.
https://www.eventcreate.com/e/writing-on-raving
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Stephanie Burt
10 months ago
Come see me chat and read alongside the wondrous Marisa Crawford in Bushwick May 7! It's gonna be Super Gay.
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Tix are free!
www.eventbrite.com/e/super-gay-...
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Super Gay Poems: Stephanie Burt & Marisa Crawford
Hive Mind Books, Bushwick's queer bookstore, welcomes poet, critic, and scholar Steph Burt in conversation with Marisa Crawford.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/super-gay-poems-stephanie-burt-marisa-crawford-tickets-1328044008379
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Chica Marx
10 months ago
Print copy of Trans / Rad / Fem by
@taliabhatt.itch.io
at
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
for those who like their reading experience old school
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Events this week at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick: Tues 4/15 11am Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-Work meet-up - Come answer emails and get some work done while meeting fellow queers in the film world. Chill and friendly. Hosted by Queer Film BK.
shorturl.at/SJGi3
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Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-work — Hive Mind Books
Queer Film BK connects queer individuals working in film, or aspiring to work in film, or who really want to make creative magic together.
https://shorturl.at/SJGi3
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LittlePuss Press
10 months ago
A STARRED REVIEW in
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
for WORTHY OF THE EVENT! “Astonishing … confident, nimble … teeming with wonder and wicked humor … readers craving a break from the mundane will be grateful Blaxell has shared these stunning explorations.” 🌟
@vivianblaxell.bsky.social
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Worthy of the Event: An Essay by Vivian Blaxell
Essayist Blaxell debuts with an astonishing seven-part “essay” that blends memoir, criticism, speculative fiction, and reportage...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781964322995
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Event Announcement! We're hosting
@simkern.bsky.social
on tour with GENOCIDE BAD on Monday 5/5 6pm at Mayday Space here in Bushwick. They'll appear in conversation with Haneen Oriqat. Sliding scale tickets are available. No one turned away for lack of funds. Tickets & info:
tinyurl.com/mr2v3cta
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Jeanne Thornton
10 months ago
I think a robust adverse possession law, as in the EU, that would permit legal occupation of any abandoned corporate space after 12 months could fix her (America)
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Wonderful Sunday afternoon conversation with Susan Stryker and McKenzie Wark. Such intelligent, thoughtful questions from the audience about queer & trans pasts and futures. The sun broke through the clouds a bit, too. Lovely.
10 months ago
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Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕
10 months ago
For every dollar you’ve spent on JK Rowling books, movies, games, and swag, double it and give it to trans, ace, and queer people, especially creatives getting their work out there. Triple if you mean it.
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Train reading on the way to an event. Discussing in our Queer Book Club 4/30.
11 months ago
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Fresh sidewalk sign! Fresh drinks! Fresh books!
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Elana
11 months ago
As someone making a game about books, I felt lucky to attend *multiple* events this week at the intersection of games & writing: the launch of
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
’s novel A/S/L, steeped in digital nostalgia, and
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social
’s delightful “video game reading night” about love!
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Alison
11 months ago
Spring break reading has arrived!!!!! Yayyayayay!!!!
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
and
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
, thank you both!!!
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Dang, that was a good writing night. Full house of creative humans giving time to their work, centering it for an hour and a half. The minutes flew by. Felt really good!
11 months ago
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We had so much fun last night. A bookstore packed to the gills with people who love the author! A moderator who asks Real Questions and knows everything about wine and elegance! An author who wrote an engrossing, tender, funny novel that is an instant favorite! What a blessed night at the bookstore!
11 months ago
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Chica Marx
11 months ago
@catfitzpatrick.net
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
@emializh.bsky.social
at
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
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April newsletter is going out at 2pm. Full of upcoming events and our little view of the world from the shop. Subscribe on our home page (scroll down to the middle):
www.hivemindbooks.com
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Cat Fitzpatrick
11 months ago
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW I am interrogating
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
at her BOOK LAUNCH for her new genius novel A/S/L I am only asking *real questions* it will be a bloodbath come see us
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Book Launch: Jeanne Thornton - A/S/L — Hive Mind Books
Join us to celebrate Jeanne Thornton and her new highly anticipated novel, A/S/L. She’ll appear in conversation with the illustrious publisher of Little Puss Press, Cat Fitzpatrick.
https://www.hivemindbooks.com/upcoming-events/book-launch-jeanne-thornton-asl
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Love and protect and celebrate trans people every day. Read their books. Listen to their stories. Protect trans kids. 💕 Love to our trans family.
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LittlePuss Press
11 months ago
"I always hated “realistic” fiction. What I mean is slice–of–life type writing in which it’s just people’s feelings and observations and no one does anything, there’s no plot, no conflict. My father was a scientist, a biologist..."
@aaantons.bsky.social
is in
@literaryhub.bsky.social
today! 😍😵
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“Realistic Fiction”
I always hated “realistic” fiction. What I mean is slice-of-life type writing in which it’s just people’s feelings and observations and no one does anything, there’s no plot, no conflict. My father…
https://lithub.com/realistic-fiction/
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Niko Stratis
11 months ago
To celebrate TDOV, you could pre-order my debut book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, arriving on May 6. Pre-orders, asking your library to stock the book, etc are a HUGE help to a debut author like me, and every little bit helps!
utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” N...
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331484/the-dad-rock-that-made-me-a-woman/
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Warm, sunny, beautiful days are fun and all, but we're also very much grooving on this overcast, cozy bookstore Sunday.
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maeve type beat
11 months ago
went to
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
earlier today and it was really lovely to be greeted by this display front and center
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All ye who pre-ordered A/S/L by
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
from us: your signed copy is on its way! These are shipping out tomorrow. 🫡 We're all so lucky to have this book on our shelves.
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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
11 months ago
NYC — there's still time to join us for tomorrow's event at
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
, at 7pm EST. Discussion features Nico Lang, Author of American Teenager;
@transrigo.bsky.social
, Exec Dir of A4TE; Adam Eli, Activist and Author. Grab your spot now:
action.transequality.org/a/american-t...
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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
11 months ago
NYC: Join us this Friday, March 28th at 7PM for an important discussion on the state of the trans rights movement. Hosted at
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
, the event features Nico Lang,
@transrigo.bsky.social
and Adam Eli in conversation. RSVP now:
action.transequality.org/a/american-t...
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