It’s Bike Month! Are you riding? And are you reading?
If you’re looking for literary inspiration, we’ve got a booklist for you!
Last spring Bike East Bay created The Women Bike Book Club as part of an initiative called Women Bike, which aims to “encourage and inspire more women, trans and femme folks to ride bikes.” In January, the library began co-sponsoring this club. Each month we meet at the intersection of bikes, books, and feminism. We discuss experiences and issues, and sometimes we do a little coloring too. While the focus of this group is women and biking, everyone is welcome to join.
We meet on the second Thursday of the month. This month that day, May 11th, is Bike to Work Day! So we’re going to the Latham Square Happy Hour. We’ll have the bike library, buttons, booklists and other cool giveaways.
We hope you’ll stop by!
And now, as promised, here is your Women, Bikes + Books booklist. We are celebrating a year of reading (and more) with the Women Bike Book Club:
April 2016
Joyride / Mia Birk
May 2016
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution / Janette Sadik-Khan
June 2016
Notorious RBG / Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
July 2016
Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories (film) / Jenn Hosek and Jaime Santos
August 2016
Ovarian Psycos (film) / Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle
September 2016
Bikeyface (web comics) / Bekka Wright
October 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy / Elly Blue
November & December 2016
No meeting
January 2017
On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life / edited by Amy Walker
February 2017
Ride the Revolution: The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling / edited by Suze Clemitson
March 2017
Wheel within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, with Some Reflections by the Way / Frances E. Willard
April 2017
Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories / edited by Elly Blue
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