Another Story Bookshop

Another Story Bookshop We are a proudly independent bookstore with over twenty years of history and a commitment to providing quality customer service.
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Another Story Bookshop is a progressive bookstore with a comprehensive selection of books for children and adults, all with an emphasis on social justice, equity and diversity. Located in Roncesvalles Village in the west end of Toronto, Another Story Bookshop sells a broad range of literature for children, young adults, and adults with a focus on themes of social justice, equity, and diversity. Our entrance is wheelchair accessible but our bathroom is down a narrow flight of stairs.

Another Story and The Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at UTSC are honoured to present an eve...
05/28/2026

Another Story and The Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at UTSC are honoured to present an evening with Dr. Alex Hanna, co-author of THE AI CON! In conversation with Dr. M Murphy.

Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to put authors, artists, and others out of business? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything?

The answer to these questions, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna make clear, is “no,” “they wish,” “LOL,” and “definitely not.” This kind of thinking is a symptom of a phenomenon known as “AI hype.” Hype looks and smells fishy: It twists words and helps the rich get richer by justifying data theft, motivating surveillance capitalism, and devaluing human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines. In The AI Con, Bender and Hanna offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across its many forms.

Bender and Hanna show you how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs it aims to hide. Armed with these tools, you will be prepared to push back against AI hype at work, as a consumer in the marketplace, as a skeptical newsreader, and as a citizen holding policymakers to account. Together, Bender and Hanna expose AI hype for what it is: a mask for Big Tech’s drive for profit, with little concern for who it affects.

Toronto Public Library will be hosting author Gabrielle Drolet on June 9, in conversation with Anu Radha Verma for their...
05/27/2026

Toronto Public Library will be hosting author Gabrielle Drolet on June 9, in conversation with Anu Radha Verma for their Spotlight Pride series! We’ll be there with books - join us for an amazing evening.

LOOK MA, NO HANDS is a humorous, profound debut memoir about chronic pain, accessibility, and young adulthood, by an acclaimed essayist and cartoonist. Drolet explores both the difficulty and the humour of developing chronic and life-altering pain in her twenties.

In 2021, Gabrielle Drolet developed a condition that made her unable to use her hands. It only worsened over time, and as a writer and artist, she had to learn new ways of creating and expressing herself. The experience completely changed her life and her outlook.

Look Ma, No Hands is utterly charming and shares profound reflections on life’s curveballs, and explores how, in Drolet’s words, “you can live a full—even funny—life in a disabled body.”

Join us to celebrate one of our most anticipated books of the year, Harriet Alida Lye’s MOTHERCLOWN! Featuring a reading...
05/26/2026

Join us to celebrate one of our most anticipated books of the year, Harriet Alida Lye’s MOTHERCLOWN!

Featuring a reading, a signing, a viewing of the Motherclown exhibition, with a curator’s talk from Ash Mulvihill of Ninth Editions, and a first look at the brand new location of the Alison Milne co. Gallery.
Tickets are hourly, from 11am-5pm. The 11am time is for a panel discussion, moderated by Tatum Dooley, between the author and the curator.

RSVP at motherclownjune6.eventbrite.ca!

Two luminaries of q***r literature in conversation about their latest books on family, intimacy, and much more! Both Meg...
05/25/2026

Two luminaries of q***r literature in conversation about their latest books on family, intimacy, and much more! Both Megan Milks, author of MEGA MILK, and Zena Sharman, author of STAYING POWER, have made brilliant and highly-anticipated solo non-fiction debuts in 2026. They have questions for each other, and we have questions for them: join us on June 12th!

STAYING POWER, Zena Sharman’s memoir in essays and new permanent staff pick, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Megan Milks’ MEGA MILK is a sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, q***r intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.

Two gorgeous new Black feminist titles from Duke University Press, in good company on the shelves!LOVING BLACK BOYS is n...
05/24/2026

Two gorgeous new Black feminist titles from Duke University Press, in good company on the shelves!

LOVING BLACK BOYS is not just a love letter to Tamura Lomax’s own sons, but to all Black boys, men, fathers, and brothers. To her sons and to all Black men, Lomax insists that Black feminism, which emphasizes mutuality, protection, ethical autonomy, and healing, is vital to forging a safer future for individual and collective survival.

In BREAKING THE WORLD, Justin L. Mann argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the modern security ambitions of the United States. Contending that speculative worldbreaking is a vital part of the Black radical imagination, Mann shows that its destructive strategies can help transform worlds of securitization to worlds of liberation.

Visit us in two weeks for the launch of STUDENT POWER, by Dr. Roberta Lexier! Lexier’s monograph offers the first detail...
05/24/2026

Visit us in two weeks for the launch of STUDENT POWER, by Dr. Roberta Lexier! Lexier’s monograph offers the first detailed history of on-campus activism in Canada. Each chapter draws upon archival documents, media reports, and oral interviews to chronicle major upheavals in, respectively, the Sixties, 1974-2000, and 2000-2020.

The conclusion brings the story to the present moment, using news coverage, survey data, and interviews to examine recent pro-Palestinian encampments at Canadian universities. It encourages scholars, activists, and the general public to take student movements seriously, positing that they are viewed as dangerous, not because they interfere with university operations or public safety, but because they often herald real, transformative change.

Details and free tickets at studentpower.eventbrite.ca!

Incredible lineup: Amanda De Lisio in conversation with Elene Lam and Simone Bohn for the launch of PLAY NAKED: P**A ECO...
05/23/2026

Incredible lineup: Amanda De Lisio in conversation with Elene Lam and Simone Bohn for the launch of PLAY NAKED: P**A ECONOMIES AGAINST OLYMPIC DISPOSSESSION! Join us on June 10th!

At Rio de Janeiro’s 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, where athletes were celebrated as symbols of national achievement, s*x workers – reclaiming the term p**a – mobilized their own bodily labour within neoliberal regimes of visibility and control, leaving behind embodied and unexpected legacies of resistance.

Play Naked reclaims s*x work as a site of p**a economic agency and political resistance, where femme and trans bodies can assert value and visibility within state systems designed to exploit or erase them. Moving beyond spectacle and protest, Amanda De Lisio draws on extensive interviews with s*x workers in Rio de Janeiro, whose stories are often ignored, infantilized, or co-opted to foment moral panic about human trafficking at major sporting events. Their narratives reveal the persistence of state violence and the complex strategies of defiance used by workers to navigate – and sometimes turn to their advantage – the rapid urban transformations driven by mega-events.

Rejecting familiar narratives of displacement, De Lisio illuminates everyday acts of endurance and defiance where land reform, urban renewal, and capitalist expansion collide with gendered and racialized bodies.

On our shelves a little early, RENOVICTION AND RESISTANCE IN THE CAPITALIST CITY exposes the structures of displacement ...
05/23/2026

On our shelves a little early, RENOVICTION AND RESISTANCE IN THE CAPITALIST CITY exposes the structures of displacement enabled by the state and perpetuated by rental housing reforms. The system hasn’t broken down, it is working as intended to increase landlord profits at the expense of the working class. As tenant organizers themselves, Cole Webber and Philip Zigman have seen firsthand that knowledge of the law alone will not protect tenants from renoviction. Rather, tenants must organize collectively to fight back and stay in their homes.

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