The Lower Eastside Girls Club

Village Voices/Virtual Journey: Girls Club Chiapas Book

Village Voices / Virtual Journey is our book documenting five years of shared ethnography: a digital collaboration and international exchange project that brought our girls to Chiapas and young Maya women to New York. To learn more about our international programs visit: www.girlsclubworldwide.org. $20 each.

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Ruth B. Ericson: The Conscious Consumer

Ruth B. Ericson wrote our fair trade textbook! The Conscious Consumer helps you understand how traditional trade often devalues the contributions of workers and artisans and how Fair Trade relationships are enhancing the quality of life for producers. This valuable book helps you interact with a global community of people taking action to ease some of the inequities in today’s world and build an alternative to corporate irresponsibility. $10 each.

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Julia Alvarez: A Gift of Gracias

Julia Alvarez is an author and owner of her own fair trade coffee farm in the Dominican Republic. Rich in cultural authenticity and brimming with the magical realism that is characteristic of Hispanic, this Kindergarten-Grade 3 children’s book is an elegantly woven tale that introduces the legend of Our Lady of Altagracia, the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. $20 each.

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Queen GodIs: Power U!

Queen GodIs is a favorite singer/poet/dancer (and the list goes on!) of the Girls Club. This passionate artist performed at the Girls Club Saturday Series and ran a spoken word workshop at our last Girls Congress. Power U! is her debut album. Visit Queen GodIs at myspace.com/queengodisbiz $18 each.

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Mahogany L. Browne: Unlikey and Other Sorts

Mahogany L. Browne is the host of the Nuyorican Poets Café Friday Night Slam, a world- renowned performance poet, and a Girls Club Mom and friend! “Mo” has hosted our block parties, ran workshops, performed at our Saturday Series and held this book’s release in our space! Unlikely & Other Sorts is Mahogany’s latest collection of poems, short stories and essays. Visit Mahogany at mobrowne.com. $15 each.

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Fly Zine Collections

Our friend Fly has run fabulous zine-making workshops at the Girls Club with our young women. These photocopied, self-published books are Fly’s own zines, full of her signature renowned punk-squatter comic-style artwork and prose. The zines are available as a package set or individually. Learn more about Fly by visiting bway.net/~fly/. $5 each.

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Lightbox: Expressions of Hope From Young Women in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi

The Binti Pamoja (Daughters United in Swahili) Center is a reproductive health and women’s rights program for teenage girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi Kenya, and a program of Carolina for Kibera (CFK). All CFK programs, including Binti Pamoja, are managed by Kenyans with support from U.S.-based volunteers.

LightBox is comprised entirely of photographs taken by Binti Pamoja’s members and essays they have written to accompany those photos. 100% of proceeds from LightBox support The Binti Pamoja Center Scholarship Fund, which helps Binti Pamoja members attend high school. With your tax-deductible donation for three copies of LightBox, you can personally fund a one-year scholarship. To learn more about the The Binti Pamoja Center Scholarship, please visit bintipamoja.org. $50 each.

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