Feminism is created through books

With anti-feminism rhetoric becoming popular in today's culture, it seems important to display the words of powerful women through time to educate the public and quell the violence. This is what the Vancouver Women's Library was hoping to achieve when it opened earlier this year. The library is volunteer run and filled to the brim with feminist novels, poems, stories, and manifestos. I looked at two slightly informal Canadian news sources, the Feminist Current and the Georgian Straight. 

Vancouver Women's Library
The Georgian Straight, a Canadian urban news source, had writer Lucy Lau cover the opening of the Women's Library. This article includes the process of creating the Library, as well as details about the Library. The piece includes the mission of the Library, how costumers can learn more about it or get involves, and what the creators hope to make of it. There were little photos but there were many solid quotes. 

Vancouver Women's Library
Feminist Current writer Meghan Murphy covered the library opening in a different light than Lau. While Murphy included descriptions about the Women's Library to give context to the article, the main focus of this piece was the anti-feminist backlash that followed its opening. The article was majority text and quotes from the volunteers of the Library, as well as videos and photos of the protestors in work. It was also much longer than one would expect for an online blog piece, but I'm also not too familiar with this news source. The piece also gave examples of similar stores that have opened in the past in order to give a bit of a timeline to feminist book stores. 

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