Bluestockings (bookstore)
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Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store. The store started in 1999 as a feminist bookstore and was named for a group of Enlightenment intellectual women, the Bluestockings. Its founding location was 172 Allen Street, and is currently located a few blocks east on 116 Suffolk Street.
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Formation | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) |
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Founder | Kathryn Welsh |
Type | Bookstore worker coop |
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Area served | New York metropolitan area |
Website | www |
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