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Leigh
@leighrachel.bsky.social
Queer Jewish Bookseller in Oakland, California

Currently deep in a research hole on right wing extremism and fucked up family structures
Well if anything is an argument for less digital more personal and more independent business it’s spending 9 hours on phone tree loops with fraud and tech support with no resolution and shrugs from in-store workers who can’t do anything to help (no shade to them)
January 19, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Feeling like my dream of phone chaos and switching to an old school blackberry was an omen
January 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Holy fuck
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Shout out to Chase Strangio who did his level best and should have fucking won. What a beast of an attorney and an amazing advocate.

This is heartbreaking. #Skrmetti
June 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Man I will never get used to earthquakes
June 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Perk of working in a bookstore is judging the vibe of our little community by special orders

Our customers are pretty cool
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Morning cat check in: they are still the best.
February 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I have a hunch this is gonna dovetail with a mildly terrifying Skyhorse title that’s in the pipeline.
February 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It shouldn’t make me angry, but it does: a long life in retail: a book by me: selected chapter headings:
December 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Can’t wait to get back to bookselling and all the conversations that come along with the job.
New temporary location officially opens Nov 30th.

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East Bay Booksellers
We are a neighborhood bookstore in Oakland, California's Rockridge district with sometimes particular interests and specific tastes.
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November 8, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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The gap is narrowing but Twitter is still in the lead, you can do this Bluesky! Support independent feminist media!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...
October 13, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I was wondering when turner diaries terminology would start popping up. I’m not super surprised considering the way folks have been tossing the term Zionist around but woweeee I was not ready
August 12, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Holy shit our bookstore burned down this morning

I’m absolutely wrecked.
July 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
My earlier statements about December aside, May is verifiably the longest goddamn month.
May 29, 2024 at 2:24 AM