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Bookstore founder passes the torch
or the past nine years, In Other Words
Womens B<x)ks and Resources has
been an invaluable resource to the
Portland community.
Founded in 1993 by Catherine
Sameh,
C atherine
Tetrick and Johanna
Brenner, it is the only
comprehensive
womens bookstore in
the area. The shop,
located
at 3734 S.E.
•
Hawthorne
Blvd.,
offers an extensive
collection of women’s
writing on all subjects,
gifts, a video rental
library
and
free
resources.
Working off grants,
donations and a stellar
staff of volunteers, In
Other Words also
offers a gathering
space for community
events including a
monthly open mike, a
program highlighting
grassroots organiza
tions in the store win
dows and a weekly
children’s nonsexist
reading hour. In addi- Catherine Sameh plans
tion to these activities d
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are regular author
readings, lectures, discussion series and movie
nights.
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.
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Words was a byproduct of movement build
ing and a need to bring women together as a
group.
“A big part of feminism is personal discov
ery,” Sameh says, “and bookstores are a really
good, safe place to
o explore your identity
8 and your life through
the writings of other
women.” She strives to
g create that sense of
® safety in her store,
where women can
come to research the
issues that affect them
freely and comfortably.
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. Sameh credits her staff of tireless
volunteers and the broad range of resources
they promote.
“It’s been a difficult venture,” she says.
“Finally, after nine years, we have become an
institution that people depend on...and even
though feminism has changed and it looks dif-
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