Running Oslo's queerest bookstore

(that isn't a queer bookstore)

This post is partly based on a presentation I gave at reMarkable in June for Pride. I was very honored to be there and get to share my thoughts—and it gave me so much to think about that I wanted to distill down some of those reflections here.

The first six years of my adult working life, I was sitting in offices doing communications jobs. As it turned out, that was long enough for me to realize I wanted to do something else—and the bookshop was born. But while I worked those jobs, I learned a lot about how organizations deal with taking a stance on anything remotely deemed “political”, and how the choices they make are sometimes surprising, often disappointing, and always in what they perceive to be their best interest.

And the one time of year this was most clearly on display was June. Pride month.