GC Christmas shopping

I enjoyed this article on China's matriarchal Mosuo tribe shared on a separate thread:

Ruling the roost is good for women’s health

go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f50fe2dc-2b73-11eb-aca7-1c9add2102c6?shareToken=4b84abfd1e7d51018d198bfdcde0e6a2

And found this book about them:

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Kingdom-of-Women-by-Choo-WaiHong-author/9780755600953

Beads by Laura she's spoken out on her instagram highlighed by Jess Dewahl beadsbylaura.create.net/

Thank you to whoever listed Grace chocolates; can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before!

@Thehollyandtheirony - I ordered some Christmas cards from www.standingforwomen.com & came with free IloveJKRowling Stickers. They also do apparently socks with e.g. woman noun adult human female on them. ( and indeed man - noun - adult human male ) - so website might be worth a go.

Hi everyone, my cartoon review of the year " 2020, The Year We Were All Cancelled!" is now available on Amazon, Book Depository, Booksellers.uk ( which I believe makes donations to indie bookshops) , Barnes and Noble, and Goodreads. It will gradually filter through to others like Waterstones, etc.
It's currently got more reviews than buyers, ha ha! Here's my favourite review so far, from Maria at Peak Trans. It's a lovely, thoughtful, and personal review:
www.peaktrans.org/cancelled-cartoonist-has-produced-a-book-2020-the-year-we-were-all-cancelled/

I will be making a concious effort to boycott Proctor and Gamble until an advert is released acknowledging their main audience rather than "people who bleed". They are not just Tampax, also:
Pampers,
Daz,
Olay,
Max Factor,
Herbal essences,
gillette,
Vicks,
old spice,
pantene.

A quick search engine check brings up an article with the complete list.

I'm making a note of many things from this thread. I must scroll up and find the link to the suffragette scarf for my mum, she'd love the subtle nature of it and order one for my own stocking

Thank you so much for starting this thread.

Thank you for this thread.

@Thehollyandtheirony oh my gosh, I’m such an idiot. I meant to post that on another thread, had two open at the same time 🤦🏼‍♀️ Although I’m glad I did because the Strike books are a great shout for him! Thank you!

Great thread. Any more small women-owned businesses or collectives would be fab.

I know a couple of GC soap makers but not sure how ‘out’ about their views they are - don’t want to expose them to bad reviews and boycotts by the woke.

I struggle every year to know what to buy for my great uncle. Would be so grateful if anyone has any ideas. We don’t see him very often and I don’t know him very well but he’s lovely and always buys a little something for us so I’d like to get him a small gift, around £10/15 that he’d like. He’s in his seventies and likes reading, I usually get him vouchers for a book store but would like to change it up a bit if I can. He’s diabetic so not sure what chocs/biscuits etc he can have. Sorry, I know it’s not much to go on!

Hmm. Not GC socks but I just bought DH some cutesy I-Love-Daddy type socks for the littlest if my DC to give him, I ordered from Solesmith and the owner (Lauren) sent me a nice email thanking me for supporting her business. So not GC at all really, but I was definitely inspired by this thread to try to source bits and bobs from small/local/female businesses. I'm trying my best to shop small and local (and I've also done a massive Grace chocolates order )

Also to say, a good business opportunity for anyone enterprising in that way, would be to set up a GC feminist gift shop website selling products from all these niche companies, organised by category eg all the badges, all the cards, all the stationery, all the clothes, all the kids' gifts etc. With products labelled with their supplier, with a link to a nice bio of each company/individual and their GC background and own websites.

Would just make it easier and quicker for those of us who'd like to buy such items without having to look at 20 different websites! Might also inspire others to fill the holes in the market.

Like, does anyone make GC socks??! :) Because if not, they should!

Great thread.

Any more suggestions, eg for older teen girls?

Any of the rather excellent books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - buy her novels for anyone who likes fiction, or for someone who is willing to read an entertaining manifesto, get them this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Ijeawele,_or_A_Feminist_Manifesto_in_Fifteen_Suggestions

www.etsy.com/shop/becwonders?

I usually buy my xmas cards from this charity, they are made by women in Bangladesh giving them a way of supporting themselves: www.sreepurvillage.org/

Sadly, it doesn't look like they are doing the cards this year. But they do a lot of small handmade products or you can do the donation type gifts.

I find myself preferring print books over ebooks these days on the basis that they can't censor it that way. It seems ridiculous, but here we are.

I find it quite revolting that meundies are happy to make money from JKR's ideas, but are willing to go along with the utter bollocks. Have they never heard of integrity?

Last week we got the IT crowd complete series to counter C4 censorship. If it is just out there in the ether, it can be taken away. If it is in our hot little hands however, we are good. Staggering that this can be happening. Hope us buying the DVDs helps Glinner!

We've been rewatching the IT Crowd. So funny. OP the Meundies debacle is both hilarious and deeply depressing, but I'm going with watching it through the ridiculous lense today. I mean wtaf?

There's also the IT crowd which is another Graham Lineham - I love this!