Rabble Books & Games

Rad independent book, games and gift shop

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@3TomatoesShort @amnewtonPhD A little more elaboration in our access info https://t.co/AguhlPF4bc

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@3TomatoesShort @amnewtonPhD We run a HEPA filter at the counter suitable for the space and all staff wear masks. Customers make their own choice and maybe 20% mask. We have a website and post/delivery or front door pick up is always an option.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@3TomatoesShort You are very lovely, thank you ❤️

[Chenée Marrapodi @CheneeMarrapodi]

First sighting in the wild!

Thanks @RabbleBG!

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@JasperPeachSays And yes! Write one!

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@JasperPeachSays I think Nevo’s The Pronoun Lowdown is a good place to start for folks who want to learn more. It’s not specific to being a parent but it is really accessible and gives people good orientation and language.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@JasperPeachSays Depends on the age of the kid, really! This came out recently but it’s quite chunky and might be a bit intimidating to start with https://t.co/N3VUyXpmdp

[Scott-Patrick Mitchell @spmpoet]

Signed copies of my poetry collection, Clean, are available from @RabbleBG

nominated for BOOK OF THE YEAR in The WA Premier Lit Prizes, you can buy a copy below. know you’re supporting Australian poetry AND an independent bookstore. please retweet!

https://t.co/SGxOnkpS34

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

Aww books sent with love to one of our loves! 💖

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@sandyosullivan It’s food for thought. If you find somewhere that manages it, I’d love to connect with them and learn about the processes they use to do that.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan I am really diligent with our stock - I watch it pretty closely and stop stocking when I know about someone. But we take dozens of special orders for things we don’t stock every week, and I can’t imagine a way to control it that doesn’t require every staff member to be an expert.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan I guess the answer is yes, we have sold transphobic books when customers requested them. But I would never knowingly put them on the shelf. Often the special orders are for legit reasons - e.g. a few years ago we sold some major terf texts to a trans person for their research.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan @clareifications When people ask to special order books in, yes we will get them for them. I see my job as curating the collection we offer on our shelves, and I don’t research or ask staff to research the books people ask us to order for them.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan @clareifications It should show as out of stock - 0 in stock. I’m just clarifying why it would show up in the catalogue and explaining that we don’t stock it.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan @clareifications We definitely don’t stock Bindel! But when we special order books in for customers it goes into our catalogue. I definitely try pretty hard not to stock known terfs, or books that seem transphobic. Some stuff is a bit tricksy- I’ll always remove things from the shelf when I know.

[Rabble Books & Games @RabbleBG]

@sandyosullivan I also try to tell the book reps at sell -ins when I know an author or book is transphobic so they can at least inform subsequent booksellers of that or hopefully stop mentioning the book as something for others to get in.

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@sandyosullivan That’s not to say that things don’t slip through - they do all the time. It’s pretty exhausting keeping up tbh. But whenever I see it or am told about it, I take it off the shelf.

[Madison Godfrey @howtobeheld]

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