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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 2002)
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The inspiration to open In Other Words grew from the closing of another Portland women’s bookstore in 1990, Sameh explains. “We felt like a feminist project was still viable, and we wanted to create a feminist community space. We felt [that] a women’s bookstore was the perfect place to do that.” Also known as the Women’s Community Education Project, In Other Words is one of only 70 women’s bookstores remaining in the country. Sameh explains it was founded “as an outlet for education, for activism, for women’s culture...a central place to do that kind of work.” Each founding member has a strong back ground in activism and social change work. Like many women’s bookstores, In Other i » rs, egon Camera Everything Photographic We have a knowledgeable, w friendly staff helping you find the right camera, binoculars, or photographic accessories. B o a rd in g & G ro o m in g for D o g s &r C a ts A ‘ family* owned and operated business since 1997. "Individual Love and. 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Topics for the discus sion series have includ ed feminist parenting, women and globaliza tion. Sameh is con cerned that women who have left the academic setting (or who never had access to one) might not have an out let for these important issues. During a time of cor porate domination, bookstores are among the smaller businesses that are being bought to pursue a graduate out or completely over wome„.s snjdies shadowed. Sameh points out that seven major companies own most of the publishing houses and that a less diverse range of hooks are being printed. Staying afloat in this kind of environment is “a labor of love,” she says. “Some of the owners (of the bookstores around the nation] opened the stores in the ’70s and just can’t do it after 30 years.” But even with competition from corpora tions such as Barnes &. Noble and Borders, In Other Words has managed to make itself indispensable—and therefore successful— in Portland. 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