Wishing you a restorative new year! Our online store is now open, but our physical store is still temporarily closed.

January 2022

Dear Friends of Women & Children First,

We hope you were able to welcome the new year safely with loved ones--or maybe just a stack of cozy reads!

Discouragingly, Chicago Covid cases are skyrocketing. Because we continue to center the health of the most vulnerable among us, including children too young to be vaccinated, we will keep our doors closed for in-store browsing for a while longer. You can still get the books you need and support Chicago's only feminist bookstore by shopping our online store, womenandchildrenfirst.com. We offer curbside pickup behind the store seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and we ship anywhere in the U.S.! Our phone lines are also open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

During our closure, we'll be updating our online store more frequently so that you don't miss any of the new titles, like Abolition. Feminism. Now by Angela Davis (Pssst! We got our copies before the release date!), and the best of 2021, listed in our recent Top Five Newsletter.

We'll miss having the store full of your masked faces during this temporary closure, but please know that we are making this decision out of love and care for our community. We hope that this surge will pass quickly and it will be safe to gather in person again soon.

All our love,

W&CF

January 2022 Events

Friday, January 7 at 12:30 p.m.

Virtual Book Launch: This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

by Taylor Harris

A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith—in search of the truth about her son.

Wednesday, January 12 at 7 p.m.

Virtual Book Launch: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Sadly, we had to pivot this event to virtual due to the current surge in Covid cases. We hope you'll join us for this virtual book launch! This riveting debut from local author Jessamine Chan should be on the top of your TBR pile!

In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

Tuesday, January 18 at 7 p.m.

Virtual Conversation: Jami Attenberg & Ada Limón

Join us for a virtual event celebrating I Came All This Way to Meet You from New York Times-bestselling author Jami Attenberg. For this event, Attenberg will be in conversation with Ada Limón.

In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly) and the “poet laureate of difficult families” (Kirkus Reviews)—reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own one’s ideas? What does the world look like for a woman moving solo through it?