Rioters, on deck. Palabras Bilingual Bookstore is an AMAZING bookstore that’s the primary and solely of its sort to convey bilingual Spanish/English books to the Phoenix group, they usually’re asking for only a little bit of assist to fund their development efforts. Can we do that? (YES WE CAN.)
Chawa Magaña is a first-generation Mexican American lady who began and owns Palabras (and he or she’s additionally a plant nerd so *heart-eyes*). She has efficiently created an inclusive, dynamic group area that’s so so so mandatory within the Phoenix group.
As she writes in her marketing campaign:
“From private expertise I perceive how essential it’s for an individual to have the ability to see themselves within the tales they learn and the way a slim and restricted cultural scope in studying supplies additionally limits the person, as nicely as a society as a complete. That’s the reason an area like Palabras is so essential to enriching the lives of the group, by making a platform the place underrepresented communities can really feel comfy to share their tales, communicate their reality and know that they’re valued.”
Since opening, Palabras has hosted POC poetry nights, craft occasions, activism/schooling nights, e book golf equipment, and extra. They inventory a full choice of books within the Spanish language, one thing woefully lacking in most bookstores in a metropolis with over a 30% Latino inhabitants.
Palabras is on the lookout for help funding a degree of sale system and new web site to succeed in their group of supporters. It’s very important start-up stuff that will probably be so essential to this bookstore because it grows and reaches a bigger viewers in Phoenix.
You prepared to assist? Help the marketing campaign on IndieGoGo earlier than July 1, 2019 right here. (And hey, you completely get books and merch for supporting, too!)
