I can't quantify how much I love the concept and content of this video! If you ever did an intersectional book tour of Rowan's bookshelf and/or just intersectional kid's lit in general, I'd be SO down.

@anawsomehuman3064

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see this as well!

@dustygania2425

Жыл бұрын

MAP?

@hanamachii_

Жыл бұрын

​@Dusty Gania having trouble finding where to go?

@dustygania2425

Жыл бұрын

@@hanamachii_ you people 🤣🤣🤣

@laurahrobinson

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!

I love this video! And Hannah, may I just say, I just love the ”new style” of the videos made this year. They are so professional, funny and warm, while educating important subjects. Amazing. ♥️

@saranorling165

Жыл бұрын

…just wanted to pop back in and say your videos have always been funny and very professional! ❤ I just wanted to express my love for these new ways of doing your videos and I admire the way you always find new ways to develope your style and videos. Your channel is so warm, safe and interesting. 🥰

Wasn't expecting to learn about the rare book world through this and it was so fascinating!!! Would love to continue seeing community staples like this (and in your other recent videos) featured on your channel. You're the best, Hannah! x

@dustygania2425

Жыл бұрын

Dodgy

Hearing the manager of Gay’s the Word say that they’ve never been busier brought tears to my eyes. We’re in an amazing era of independent bookstores and seeing queer bookstores in particular thrive is so wonderful! These spaces are so important. Thanks for highlighting them, Hannah!!

The manager from the 1st bookstore was amazing. He is really passionate about what he is doing, and that's what we readers want and need

As a book seller, this video is pure gold. ❤

this was so good to watch! my girlfriend and i are visiting london this weekend from manchester, so this has been really cool to discover some new places! deffo gonna try and visit the common press

"Bookshops are here for the community "I'm literally sobbing

Oh yes, i am definitely bookmarking this video and refer back to it when planning my next trip to London. Thank you for showing us lovely places like these.

Fantastic video Hannah. The effort you put into these doesn't go unnoticed.

You are KILLING it with these videos, Hannah! Would love to know what you thought of the books once you've read a few x

@hannahwitton

Жыл бұрын

Eee thanks so much! Hopefully will get a chance to read soon!

@QUIZ_FOOTBOOLL_2023

Жыл бұрын

😂

@dustygania2425

Жыл бұрын

Me too!! btw my pronouns are he/haw/victim

@emilyjames3110

11 ай бұрын

@@hannahwittonI’m in a confusing mood at the moment as idk what control I should try as I’m new at it all And my month is bad too as I suffer with mental health & plus hormones problems too luckily my partner is supportive as well ❤

I love this video and the people you speak with. I particularly love the woman at Bookmarks and I just want to give her a virtual hug, if she wants one. But all of the people are such a delight. Thank you!

This is so cool and exciting and completely inspired me to read - Hannah I completely love these videos where you get out of the studio and into places where other people and thinking and changing some of the things this channel cares about in their own way!

Hannah, I've loved your content since about 2016-2017 and I'm so proud of how far you've come and will continue to go! I'm also so thrilled for you and your growing little family 🤗🌻💛 Congratulations, and I'm rooting for you in my small town in Michigan! I don't know if you're on Twitch, but I hope to see you at Twitchcon in Las Vegas this fall! Would love to meet you finally!

@hannahwitton

Жыл бұрын

I did stream on twitch for a bit but not anymore so no plans to be at twitchcon but thank you and hope you have fun!

OMG I would not have been able to exhibit as much self control as Hannah. I would have come home with 50 books.

As a lover of books, visiting bookshops is the best thing ever. Thank you for taking us with you

Recently travelled to London from the west of Ireland and did several days of scouring bookshops, including some in this video! It brings me such joy to know these places exist and are run by such enthusiastic, lovely people! Great video as always Hannah

this was such a great video! it’s always so important to remember just how real and deep rooted communities like this are and have been and bookshops are such amazing places to really get a feel for that. thanks for sharing!

I love this crossover between vlog and more informative style videos

I love this format! Very relaxing and informative!

Omgggg this was SO COOL!! I really wanna go to all these bookshops now

Visiting London soon and adding these shops to my must visit itinerary! Thank you for the tips Hannah!

I had no idea places like this existed, this is so cool! Thanks for opening my eyes to this

@jkally1

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised so many have still survive, I'd definitely like to support these types of bookshops

Really loving how many videos out and about you’ve had recently and this is my fave so far because I’m obsessed with books and bookshops!

Brilliant!!! And the timing couldn't be more perfect for my upcoming trip to London! I've only visited Gay's the Word before, but the others are now must-visits! Thanks Hannah :)

This was so wonderful and inspiring. So good to see the existence and power of radical bookshops!

Loved this video! So inspiring to see all of these books dedicated to such worthwhile topics and the shops that offer them 😍

I love this so much 😭 there's so much history out there we don't know about.

I love local bookstores so much, I love seeing them given some spotlight and support!

Its been soo inspiring to see these radical, feminist managers with cozy sweaters and soft voices, what a treat!

I've been subscribed to your channel for at least 6 years (and the new channel as soon as you started it) now and have always loved it but especially lately, they are a source of HUGE joy for me. I tend to watch them after a long work day while eating dinner. absolutely love them, continue to rock, i loveee your content.❤

Loved this video, given me some more places to add to the never ending list of London bookshops I want to visit!

When she handed you the Vegetarian I was so excited. I loved that book, it's so strange and I still think about it all the time.

I love this video! Gay's the word is one of my favourite places ever, Jim cultivates such a welcoming atmosphere there

A fantastic, inspiring video that makes me what to head to London right now! Hope you're enjoying finally having time to read those books!

What a lovely video! I'm sure I could spend hours at all of these.

Hannah, you're on fire at the moment! I love all the videos you've made in the last few weeks! You're like a little niche of super random but super interesting and relatable and fun to watch videos :D

I cannot believe that video was not recommended to me. I heard about it in your mid years goals check up. I am not a londoner and this is my kind of tourism. The shots in the streets are glorious

i know where I need to go when i visit london again! ive been to gays the word but haven't been to any of the others and didnt even know they existed - very excited to visit them in the future :D

I’m going to London soon and now thanks to you I have some exciting places to visit!

Ah this is awesome! You are really smashing out incredible videos Hannah, I'm loving it. Brilliant stuff, and I definitely need to visit the children's sections of these!

Loved this video so much and I will definitely try to visit at least one of these places on my next visit to London!

Love this so much! When you read your buys above i’d love to hear your thoughts on them & any other great books your reading. This is a genre i haven’t delved into before so i’ve noted many new books to read from this video ❤❤❤ thank youuu

What an absolutely fantastic video, so good. I loved it so much

What an amazing video! Definitely well need to visit those books store next time i visit London!

Love this video! I had no idea about any of these bookshops and will certainly be making visits soon!

This is one of my favourite videos of yours! ❤

Here from my "go big or go home"videos that i missed watchtour😊 great video

This was perfect timing, I’m heading back to the UK soon to visit family and had been thinking I’d love to check out queer bookshops whilst I’m in London. Then you drop this video! 😂 Loved this so much, and I love how passionate all the bookshop owners/staff are 😊❤

Common press is one of my fave. It's so sad common counter shut down but I'm really glad common press is still running. Such a great place.

Loved this video and its content so so much! One day when I go to London, I know what bookshops I'm heading to!!

I love the video, thank you so much! Now I've got 13 more books on my shopping list 😄 I had so much fun watching that video and i would like to hear your opinion on them if you had read them ❤

I’ve been watching you for years but just have to comment to say how much your warm personality jumps off the screen in this video!!! You are so lovely to watch ❤

i've only ever been to gays the word, but jim and the rest of the staff have always been so so lovely! such a great vibe and a great selection of books!

Living for the book content because it's so inspiring even though I might not read all the books you show

This was so cool and helpful! I live in Germany but all of these bookstores have online shops and I found a ton of books in their listings already that I wanna get. Thank you Hannah!

I love your videos and this one is simply my favorite! I love books and reading and it makes me want to travel to UK just to go to these bookshops😍

I loved every minute of this video, wonderful😍

Thank you for this marvelous video! Next time I`m in London I will check out each and everyone of those bookshops!!

One of my good friends wrote Bi The Way so it's so cool to see it feature in your video! I highly recommend it.

i am one of those teenagers who’s gone to gays the word and i love it so much, as soon as i saw the title i knew it would be in here and I was so excited you went there!

Such a fantastic video! My tbr just went up a few numbers.!

Absolutely loved this video! Highly recommend The Care Manifesto and The Vegetarian!!

Loving the new style videos and more out and about content 😊

love love love this video ❤️ and now it might be my life goal to open a radical queer bookshop

I’ve been trying to arrange a bookshop crawl of London and these are all being added to my list! Loved this video and the cute communities these bookshops have created

What a brilliant look at a world I would likely never come in contact with. Thank you Hannah for enriching my perspective and for a very interesting watch. Peace

I LOVE this video - probably one of my favourites ever. Sex and books are so interesting to me. Would love to see more like this, especially relating to kids books and what is available now! ❤

LOOOVED IT! NICE TO SEE YOU BACK ON YOUR OWN SHOES!!XXX

This was amazing! So interesting to see all the diversity in the bookshops and I definitely need to visit next time I'm in London :)

This is the perfekt video for me rn because I'm always looking for book recommendations (especially from knowledgable book sellers) and I'm combing to London this Summer and was planning to visit book shops like that

My town had no gay bars or anything like it when i moved here. Right after covid we got a LGBT bookshop and cafe - and suddenly it feels like the streets are swarmed by visable queer people. People who are proud of themselves and feel happy because our city offers things for them. Then half a year later we got a gay bar for the first time in 10 years. I'm so happy to see what is possible when queer people decide to make their place known in a town - cause we're here and we fit in and we deserve the places that embrace us

How did I not know about Bookmarx and Housmans? I'm sure Vaneet will also be very happy you highlight his new Bisexual Men Exist book too; great book.

@johnlondonbimeetup7961

Жыл бұрын

@hannahwitton I'm guessing this reply (also seen on a bunch of your other comments with same reply to them, username @hannah_witton0) is a copycat trying to leech, or even phish users/scam somehow? Should probably report?

I really hope to visit gays the word one day. When i heard about it for the first time it sounded like heaven. When i was 14 to imagine there was a shop where i didnt have to search for the two-three queer books that was in the ya section but instead pick between all queer books?! Although i migjt not be able to visit gays the word for some time an lgbt bookshop opened in the region where i lived recently and it felt like a miracle because i had never thought that would be possible in my area. I feel so lucky to have access to that space, it creates visbility on a whole new level.

Oh my, what a splendid video! Next time I'm in London (hopefully soon!) I have to visit at least one of them!

Amazing video Hannah ! 💛🌼 All those librarians are so amazing! (also I want to buy every single book)

My TBR list exploded during this video…😊

This was so fun to watch!! I would love to visit some of these spaces when I'm next in London, although I fear for my bank account when I do!

Absolutely love this!! Going to London next month so I saved everything 🤩 please have an art gallery crawl of the same style!?

I'm a bi and disabled children's author and I really wonder what the criteria is for being included in a shop like this? It was interesting to see the kids' sections in the book shops. I can see that they have some of my fave series that are similar to mine - so like Murder Most Unladylike has quite noteworthy representation in terms of having an Asian protagonist and a major character coming out as lesbian later on. But then there's something like Nevermoor which I would say is a lot more like my books in terms of just having a fairly diverse cast and a queer author. I have to wonder if I just need to increase the visibility of these aspects in my books or of myself... But I really feel quite afraid of doing that based on so much negative past experience 😢

Bookmarks is just round the corner from my office! I love it there!

Ooh! 😃 I'm heading to London for Star Wars Celebration in a couple of weeks, I'll have to remember to visit these spots!

Need to take the list to the library ❤

Great video! It gave me some nice places to visit when in London.

Some new ones for me. A wonderful thought!

next time I travel to England, I am definitely visiting some of these stores. According to this one person I follow who has a book club and is from the US, when she visited England, their books are way cheaper than they are here in the US. That, plus the sheer amount of cool bookstores and books in this video would just make me have no self control when it comes to buying books

@bubba283

11 ай бұрын

I'd like to go to one, I struggle with sexuality

Absolutely loved this!! ❤

oohh this was so cool!! notes taken for my next trip to london haha. cant wait for rowan to grow into a little feminist revolutionary

I'm not sure if the lovely book seller in Bookmarks mentioned it, but I would highly recommend Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee for your upcoming video! All the best from Berlin, x

this is so refreshing to see, especially the part about books for children...I'm a US viewer and these kinds of books are getting banned left and right over here!

@hannahwitton

Жыл бұрын

It’s so sad!

definitely need to visit some of these the next time i visit London!

This is making me so happy and like rekindling my activist fire. Books ❤

Highly recommend everything by Cipher press, as recommended by the first bookshop!! Lovely to spot Nettleblack by Nat Reeve in the shop. This is my favourite book of all time, published by Cipher press last year. A book set in Victorian England featuring multiple sapphic and Non-binary characters solving mysteries and experiencing crushes! Great video!

Great video!! I only knew gay's the word so I'll definitely make time to drop by all the other ones! Though I work in Bloomsbury so I'll need to restrain myself from going too frequently for the sake of my wallet 😂

I'm only at the first bookshop of the video and already I can tell going there would be dangerous for my wallet😅

Loved this! ❤

Hannah if you haven't come by cold intimacies the making of emotional capitalism by Eva Illouz for your video about sex and capitalism it might help. Her main thesis is that we are buying our ways into relationships - we prove our love through capitalism (buying expensive rings ect). I only read a few chapters for uni, but might have some directly related to sex - or at least to what sorrounds it (like romance)

On the topic of all things intersectional, let's keep wearing our masks indoors people! It's such a simple act of solidarity with those who are vulnerable to covid, as well as the growing population of folks navigating long covid.

I absolutley loved this!

Amazing to hear Shon Faye is their best selling author, especially since The Transgender Issue is such an important book right now in my eyes