Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with
https://mas.to/@gleick/116036890696295170
Jeremy Kahn
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