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Worker-led, cooperatively run bookshop 📚 born from the ashes of union-busting. Building collective power, one book at a time. Open daily, 11am-7pm 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9RA, UK. peoplesletters.org linktr.ee/peoplesletters

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
CND is deligthed to have global best selling author and physicist @rovelli.bsky.social join us for a Q&A event to discuss his new book. Copies will be available to purchase courtesy of @peoplesletters.bsky.social. Reserve your spot today: cnduk.org/events/85-se...
Graphic with CND logo with images of Carlo Rovelli and his new book. Text reads: "85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist's Argument Against Rearmament. Q&A with author and physicist Carlo Rovelli with Sophie Bolt, CND General Secretary. 3:00-4:30pm Tuesday 23 June. The Green House Ethical Property, 244-254  Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA." A QR code to book tickets to the event is in the bottom right corner of the graphic.
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felix 🔯⚧️🍉 @lousullivanbf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Exciting news: I now have patches for sale at both Freedom Books in Aldgate East and @peoplesletters.bsky.social ! I'm also reviving the Instagram that used to be for my old Etsy shop so I have somewhere to post about my ventures; you can find me at instagram.com/makemorethandust 🪡🧵✨
A collection of anarchy symbol, trans symbol, watermelon and pronoun patches on a table in black and pink fabric, with variations of pink, white or black thread.A stack of black patches with pink thread on a counter. They show two bunnies, one happily chomping on the other, with a little heart and 'T4T' lettering.
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🦴 PUPPYGIRL SOCIAL CLUB 🦴 🌸 SUN 24 MAY 🌸 BIPOC - PWYC / LOW WAGE - £5 / STANDARD £10 / SOLIDARITY £15
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Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My book at The People's Letters in London! @peoplesletters.bsky.social
Bisection with a note on it reading: The world Jenné creates is immersive right away. A sci-fi world you'll love to mentally play with. Queer, angsty, social commentary through aliens!
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mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
couple of my zines now in @peoplesletters.bsky.social if you're from london or thereabouts <3
Two of my zines stocked in a bookstore, The People's Letters. It's on a shelf with other zines. In the background is a hand-sewn sign for the store, some posters, and a Palestinian flag.
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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Send your pitches to CHLieberman@proton.me
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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Pitch submissions open for Warped, an upcoming trans+ anthology of sci-fi and horror:
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This weekend: join us for a screening to help fundraise for Save Ridley Road! Sunday 12th April, 7:30pm All funds raised will go towards the Save Ridley Road fundraiser in order to support traders resisting eviction from the Ridley Road Shopping Village! Ticket link in comments
Film screening fundraiser for Save Ridley Road.
Screening Ridley Road 2020: A Market Under Threat (2020) by Alfredo Broccolo & Timeline of Resistance (2022) by Tony Price, music by Adam Parry-Davies, followed by Q&A with Save Ridley Road.

 Sun 12 April 7:30pm @ The People's Letters, 395 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA


PWYC - suggested donation £10
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We are so grateful to those of you committed to keeping radical spaces open, and we're determined to THRIVE! Thank you to everyone who has donated. Big things coming.
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Since The People's Letters opened our doors, we've been committed to running an ethical worker co-operative that supports our local community as a hub for mutual aid.
Projects like ours function surrounded by doubt and people insisting that we cannot possibly survive without resorting to hierarchical structures and small business owner mindsets. We refuse. If we cannot run a shop that also serves as a free community living room, provides a sliding scale to enable unfunded/grassroots groups to organise, and prioritises marginalised voices... then we would not want to run it at all.
Your support is the reason we're able to keep doing this work, and we cannot thank you enough for making this possible!Text reads:

From the moment we opened, our wages have taken a back seat. We split the money that is left after rent, stock orders, royalties to artists, and keeping our free tea and coffee station topped up.
It is exhausting and rewarding in equal measure to run this shop. All the time we can dedicate goes into making it better, more effective, and sharing the love amongst more groups committed to that same mission. Fundraising bridges the gap between our lower earnings because of this commitment and the amount needed so that our workers can make rent and afford food and baby formula.Text reads:

THE PEOPLE'S LETTERS
10K RAISED!

COMING SOON THANKS TO YOU:
• HAPPIER WORKERS WHO ARE LESS SCARED OF FAILING TO MAKE THEIR RENT!
• EXPANDING OUR BOOK AND ZINE COLLECTION!
• MORE CAPACITY TO HOST RADICAL EVENTS AND FUNDRAISERS FOR OTHER GROUPS FREE OF CHARGE!
• BABY CHANGING TABLE!
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
1 DAY LEFT £500 TO GO!!! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We still need your help! Only 8 days to donate to our crowdfunder! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m going to be doing some event photography at this so if you want your picture taken by me you have to put on the dog ears TONIGHT
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
TONIGHT: Puppygirl Social Club - a social by and for dykes, dolls & transbian petplayers! Tue 24 March 7.30pm - late Munch vibes BYOB East London Tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/34608/...
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Tickets for the next Puppygirl Social Club on Tuesday 24th March have now been released for general public to purchase! www.outsavvy.com/event/34608/...
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We still need your help! Only 8 days to donate to our crowdfunder! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
PGSC tonight btw :) tickets avail on door too! www.outsavvy.com/event/34275/...
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Puppygirl Social Club Tickets - London - OutSavvy
A social event by &amp; for dykes, dolls &amp; transbians with at least a passing interest in petplay (non-puppies and non-girls are welcome. ) Munch vibes (this is a social event not a play event. ) ...
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Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The People's Letters is the wonderful bookshop we share the space for our Harm Reduction Hub with. They are trying to meet a £10k goal by the end of March. There's just under £4,000 to go, and just over two weeks! Can you help them out? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
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Help sustain The People’s Letters
Help sustain a cooperative, worker-led bookshop!
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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Many thanks to my PhD student Raza who put me onto this local worker-led coop bookshop and events space @peoplesletters.bsky.social in East London! Check them out peoplesletters.org See alt text for the titles
An array of exciting and colourful books as well as ephemera related to the Peoples Letters

My haul:
- Hooker Mentality by Jack Parker
- Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology ed. Jack Parker
- Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex eds Matilda Bickers, peech breshear, Janis Luna
- Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti 
- Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Workers and Drug Use by Justice Rivera
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
✨Next week at TPL - 2-8 March✨ 3rd: Craft Social 5-7pm 6th: Terrible Therapy 7:30-9:30pm 7th: Anakbayan GA 12-3:30pm + Poetry Night fundraiser for Haia & Gaza 7:30-9:30pm 8th: Watercolour workshop 3-5pm ‼️Lavender Pages x T Girls on Film (5/3) venue change, check their insta
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✨What’s on next week at TPL (2-8 March) ✨

🗓️Tuesday 3rd
Craft social | 5-7pm

🗓️Friday 6th
Terrible therapy | 7:30-9:30pm

🗓️Saturday 7th
Anakbayan 2026 General Assembly Open Meeting | 12-3:30pm
@anakbayanuk for more info
Poetry night and fundraiser for Haia and Gaza @ezlc327 | 7:30-9:30pm

🗓️Sunday 8th
Eat & Draw watercolour workshop by Alison Hui @a.h.inkpen | 3-5pm
contact them directly for more
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We’ve extended our crowdfunder to 28th March! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people... There is still time left to help the People’s Letters survive 💕
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Help the People’s Letters survive & throne
We have extended our crowdfunder till the end of March
Can you help us reach our goal? 
Donate via link in the bio xThanks to the incredible outpouring of community support, we've raised almost £5k for our Crowdfunder so far! This covers our immediate running costs so The People's Letters can stay afloat for now. You made sure we didn't lose another beloved community space, and we cannot be more grateful for your support.

But we don't just want TPL to scrape by. We want to build real sustainability and capacity while practising radical politics without compromise. That's why we have extended the Crowdfunder till end of March, to hopefully bring us to our 10k goal.We started this workers' co-op without a financial cushion and moved straight from a labour dispute into building this space from the ground up, learning as we go and slowly finding our footing.
Despite all the difficulties, we are still committed to practising radical politics in action. Since October 2025, we have been open every single day from 11 am to 7 pm, including Christmas and New Year's. We operate on a pay-what-you-can model for secondhand books and event tickets; offer our event space for free or at low cost to unfunded groups, SWers, trans and anti-fascist groups. We make sure no one is turned away for lack of funds, and that people can come in, read, collect supplies, chat, or hang out with friends without feeling the pressure to buy anything.

There is also an image out community potluck on Christmas Day, 25/12/25
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
She's back and as bad as ever! Backed by a total of 0 therapists, we have the event that replicates the kind of advice you would only otherwise find in the queue to the bathroom on a night out.A space for ranting, judgement-free judging and salacious gossip. BYOB if you want.
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
✨What’s on next week at TPL (23 February-01 March) ✨ 🗓️Mon 23 Wand making workshop | 6-9pm 🗓️Tues 24 Craft social | 5-7pm 🗓️Thurs 26 Bound 2 Pose Life Drawing | 7-9pm 🗓️Fri 27 Life drawing club | 6:30-9:30pm 🗓️Sun 01/03 Transfeminist reading group | 3-5pm www.outsavvy.com/organiser/th...
Graphic of events from 23rd February to 01st March 2026. 

Monday 23st: Wand making workshop, 6-9pm

Tuesday 24th: Craft social, 5-7pm

Thursday 26th: Bound 2 Pose Life Drawing, 7-9pm

Friday 27th: Life drawing club, 6:30-9:30pm

Sunday 01st: Transfeminist reading group, 3-5pm
contact them directly for more information at @communityaid4tranz on social media
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We’ve got a new email setup! Emails to our old Gmail still reach us for now but we’re moving to Proton. General → info@peoplesletters.org Events → events@peoplesletters.org Stock & zines → orders@peoplesletters.org
We’ve got a new email setup!

Don’t worry, emails sent to our old Gmail address will still reach us for now but we’re gradually moving over to Proton.

You can now reach us at:

For general enquiries: info@peoplesletters.org
For events, workshops, space hire: events@peoplesletters.org
 For stock enquiries, zines, books, merch: orders@peoplesletters.org

We’re trying to move away from Google services and towards a safer and more ethical alternative so please help us do that by contacting us at the addresses above.
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Next Puppygirl Social Club is on Saturday 21st February! Early access ticket link has been sent out to those on the waitlist - any remaining tickets will be put up for public release at 12pm on Sat 14 Feb!
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
✨What’s on this week at TPL (09-15 February) ✨ 🗓️Monday 9th Multilingual Meet-up | 7-10pm 🗓️Tuesday 10th Craft social | 5-7pm 🗓️Sunday 15th Christopher Lieberman creative writing workshop | 1-3pm
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We’re now over halfway through our 4-week crowdfunding campaign. We still have a long way to go, so if you’ve been thinking about donating, now’s a great time to help us move closer to our goal: tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj Thank you so much to everyone who’s supported us so far!
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Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our February opening hours: Monday - Thursday, 2-5pm Saturdays, 4-7pm Wednesday 11th, 7-10pm 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA Come by for a casual chat, a look at @peoplesletters.bsky.social's amazing book selection, and your safer drug and sex supplies!
graphic with opening hours for Release's harm reduction hubgraphic with information on what is offered at Release's harm reduction hub. this includes advice, signposting to local support, safer sex and drug use materials, and free phone charging, phone and computer use, needle and syringe programme, tea and coffee, community space
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We’re now over halfway through our 4-week crowdfunding campaign. We still have a long way to go, so if you’ve been thinking about donating, now’s a great time to help us move closer to our goal: tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj Thank you so much to everyone who’s supported us so far!
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Tonight: LATE LETTERS extended opening hours. Pop in until 10pm tonight for browsing & socialising in our cosy, step-free space. Free hot drinks, lots of board games available to play, and absolutely no expectation to spend any money while you're here!
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This place rules, please help if you’re able…
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
soulmuppet-store.co.uk times are hard for games designers. please buy my books. you get books with beautiful art and fantastic writing, and i get money to pay interest on business debt. it's a two way victory! everyone wins.
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SoulMuppet Publishing Webstore
We create and publish roleplaying games. Beautiful books in beautiful quality. Come here for Best Left Buried, Stygian Library, Orbital Blues and a fantastic array of 3rd Party Books
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So grateful for all the donations and shares so far ❤️ Every share helps, so please keep spreading the word! tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
public release tickets sold out in 5 hours!! waitlist is open in the event of any returns....maybe we'll add a second date if there's that much demand??
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The Seven-Foot Slut @abigail-is-nancy.northsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please give some money to support this place. I know I will be. @peoplesletters.bsky.social means a lot to me and it means even more to the people who run it and who need the safe, welcoming, comforting place it provides. I've also got speculative plans to launch a book I'm working on there so...
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Pierre Dipshit @pierre.dipshit.uk · 20/01/2026
Support the official bookstore of Pierre Dipshit (and earn the right to say "hello Pierre, I know you from on the internet" if you ever run into me in there).
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thursday 5th February: Puppygirl Social Club!! A social event by & for dykes, dolls & transbians with at least a passing interest in petplay. Non-puppies & non-girls are welcome as long as you're some flavour of sapphic. Munch vibes (not a play event!) - 18+. www.outsavvy.com/event/32917/...
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SillyLilFairy 🇵🇸 @thebluefaery.northsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just donated. If anyone wants to chip in even a small amount or share if you can't, this place has been a safe space for my friend Abigail in the UK and I'd really like to help her save it. 🙏 #mutualaid #safespace
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
What's on this week at TPL: Thurs 22nd: Terrible Therapy Fri 23rd: From the US to the UK: fuck the borders and fuck ICE! w/ Minneapolis Sat 24th: Self publishing workshop Sun 25th: Protest First Aid workshop (FREE!) peoplesletters.org/events
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
✨OUR CROWDFUNDER IS LIVE! ✨ The People’s Letters is crowdfunding to help sustain our worker-owned cooperative bookshop and community space rooted in solidarity. Please support or share if you can! tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
what's on at TPL today: - free tarot and reiki 12pm - 4pm - Silly Dogs Brunch Club Bound by Blood/Water Book Launch & Workshop 7:30pm - 10:30pm [sold out! waiting list available] peoplesletters.org/events
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
happy warhound restock day to all who celebrate
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Drop in craft social every Tuesday, 5-7pm! Bring your own projects or something that needs sewing and we'll show you how to do it :)
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Suggestions in the comments please
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
BOOKSHOP BLAHAJ BOOKSHOP BLAHAJ BOOKSHOP BLAHAJ
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Help grow our local community! Join our WhatsApp group to connect with local residents, groups, visitors and businesses, stay informed about TPL events, arrange meet-ups and organise mutual aid. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4wzvsrvv
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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
If you've ever thought about getting an e-book copy of Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, you can get it for the same price as elsewhere by subscribing to www.patreon.com/peoplesletters lowest tier! We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
A poster about The People's Letters Patreon, showing: The Bookseller's Letters tier which includes reviews and a free copy of Working Guys, The Eventful Letters tier offering 2 event passes plus the lower tier benefits, The Posted Letters which includes art prints and zines, and The Whole Alphabet tier which gets you everything!
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Congratulations @kallidorarho.bsky.social for winning @thetransfemininereview.com's 2025 Reader's Choice Award for Outstanding Erotica! We are so happy we got to add this to the display today 🥹
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The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
January's event schedule is filling up fast! 😍😍
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