The Scarlett Letters

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NOW CLOSED 📍140 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E1 5QJ https://www.scarlettletters.co.uk/

A photo of the book Logging Off by Adele Walton, with "signed copy" stickers attached.
A wide shot of The Scarlett Letter's exhibition corner, comprised of two large pinboards with photographs, captions, and pride flags pinned on. In front is a table with a selection of books and magazines on the theme of SW rights and LGBT+ pride.
Photograph of Marsh P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera smiling on a street.
Images of the occupation of Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon pinned to a pinboard
Red hand-written sign on a pin board which reads 'This pride month June 2nd marks the 50th anniversary of International Sex Workers' Day'. Underneath is the start of an exhibition with pinned images and captions.
A photo taken from the front door of The Scarlett Letters bookshop.
Wooden window display filled with many books, birthday cards, small red lace umbrellas and rainbow pride flags with a sign on the left saying "log off + touch grass" and a sign on the right saying "Pride was a Riot"
a picture of two copies of Heaven Looks like Us Palestinian poetry collection edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi
Poster with a red background. At the top, headings read: "Desire and Dating: The Love Fix & Sluts". Below, pictures of authors Rachel Thompson and Beth Ashley with their books The Love Fix and Sluts. Text below reads: "Join Beth Ashley and Rachel Thompson to discuss their books and chat about sex shame in dating, and the connection between sex and desirability! Tues 27 May 6:30pm - 8:30pm The Scarlett Letters 140 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5QJ"
Books on a shelf, the two face out books are Unmasked by Ellie Middleton and Sensory Life on the Spectrum An Autistic Comics Anthology by Bex Ollerton. Stacked sideways we can see L-R: Taking Off the Mask by Dr Hannah Louise Belcher, Empire of Normality by Chapman, Uncomfortable Labels by Laura Kate Dale, Neuroqueer by CJ DeBarra, Unmasking For Life by Dr Devon Price, Unmasking Autism by Dr Devon Price, The Anti Ableist Manifesto by Tiffany Yu
A photo of the front of The Scarlett Letters bookshop from the street.
A variety of zines hang along our red walls
Printed poster that says 'The Scarlett Letters Easter Egg Hunt find one of the paper eggs hidden about the bookshop to win a prize or a discount. One egg per customer" with a decorative bunny in the bottom left corner and decorated eggs. All red ink on white paper
An image of 4 books, including "Organize, fight, win", "A history of the barricade", "Labour's extreme neoliberalism" and "book of dissent", all resting on a read leather chair.
The video started by showing a sandwich board with The Scarlett Letters and a hand point towards inside the bookshop. Followingly, there is a poster Indicating Easter Egg Hunt: Find one of the paper eggs hidden about the bookshop to win a prize, or a discount! One Egg per customer ;)
Adorable red bunnies with folk style patterns scamper around red text that reads: The Scarlett Letters Easter Egg Hunt - 18th to 20th April 11am -6pm. Other easter eggs have the information that there are 'SO many PRIZES to be won!' 'Notebooks! Tickets! T-shirts! Tote bags! *with any book purchase. Join us in store!'
A photo of the book "Zipper Mouth" by Laurie Weeks, on the high heel shoe chair of The Scarlett Letters bookshop.
A photo of the book "I am Raven" by Alastair Chisholm, on the high heel shoe chair at The Scarlett Letters bookshop.
A photo of the book "Last Acts" by Alexander Sammartino, on the high heel shoe chair of The Scarlett Letters bookshop.
The Scarlett Letters page on Bookshop.org, with a photo of the bookshop, colourful umbrellas hanging from the ceiling and neon pink BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS in the window. The description of the shop says: 'We are a non-profit community interest company and a proudly radical, independent bookstore dedicated to platforming marginalised voices.'
A poster in red background and yellow line around the text saying "Need a Book? You can order almost any book you'd like through us! Simply send your request to: booksellers@scarlettletters.co.uk"
On a beige background with lines in the trans pride flag colours of light blue and pink, text reads HIGHLIGHTING TRANS WORKS for Trans Day of Visibility, with The Scarlett Letters logo in lower right corner
A gold rimmed glass table with 3 books and 3 cards. The birthday cards are designed to look similar to the books. The top book is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, it has an illustrated wave on a rainbow gradient background, the text is white. The card shows a wave against a rainbow background a cartoon of a calico cat in a yellow duck shaped ring and a party hat at the top, the white text reads Today and Today and Today. The book Really Good actually shows the top of a head crying with a parted orange fringe, blue eyes and dripping black mascara, the text is in white. The card next to it is orange with a cupcake and a lit candle at an angle. The white text says 'really young actually'. The bottom book is Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters, it is pink with a wavy red ribbon going around the text. The title is in white and the author name is in purple. The card says Birthday Baby in white and With Love in purple, the background is pink and there are wavy red ribbons going around the text
Photo from The Scarlett Letters bookshop featuring a table of books with a sign that says "Happy Mother's Day!"
This picture shows an arm outstretched holding the book 'On Breathing' by Jamieson Webster. The cover shows a blue sky with clouds above a still sea. In the background of the picture we can see the shop floor, with wooden flooring, red walls, shelves displaying books and colourful umbrellas hanging from the ceiling
A face up book directly on a red leather background. The book has a light-yellow cover with purple drawn-style letters "My Mom Had an Abortion" with a drawing below of it of a pale white woman with red hair, a light green shirt, black capris trousers, and yellow ankle socks. She is laying on a pink carpet, is writing in a journal, and has a tablet plugged in next to her. On the blue wall behind her there's a taped up white poster with black words "A Shout Your Abortion Project". An edited in speech bubble graphic extends out from the left middle side of the book "This beautifully illustrated short graphic novel crucially fills a cultural gap around complexities of abortion, pop culture, body changes, and finding out where we fit in."
A face up book on top of white books beneath it and a red leather background. The face up book has a black cover with a sideways light green triangle on it with the title "Abortion Beyond The Law" on it in half-green, half-white writing. Green writing on the triangle, white writing on the black background. Above the triangle in smaller white font is "Naomi Blaine" and below the triangle in the same small white font is "Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self Managed Abortion." An animated text bubble is edited in extending off the left top corner "Follow feminist activists making safe, accessible abortion care available against the odds, and even more importantly, building a robust transnational feminist network."
A robin's egg blue book on top of a red leather background with the title, "Abortion Pills Go Global" with the o's replaced with a colourful pill in pink, orange, blue, and white in a big font. On top of that, in smaller font, is author "Sydney Calkin" in black font and below the book title is "Reproductive Freedom Across Borders" in red font. A speech bubble graphic is edited in on the left side of the book "An unprecedented up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement."
Face up book on top of a stack of other face up books (hidden faces) all on top of a red leather background. The face up book is top-half beige with black writing "So we can know" repeating in different fonts, bottom half is a purple tinted photographer. Below that is a beige block with "Edited by Aracelis Girmay, Foreword by Nina Angela Mercer." A animated speech bubble "Poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding pregnancy."
A multi-coloured swirl cover on a book in the centre of the frame on top of a white box and a red leather background. The book is "Choice Words: Writers on Abortion" edited by Annie Finch. A edited speech bubble graphic is on the left side: "A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, this book collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights."
A white book in the centre of the photo with colourful yarn-like design for the title that spells out "Shout Your Abortion" and pink text below it, "Foreword by Lindy West" and "Edited by Amelia Bonow & Emily Yokes." There is a speech bubble graphic on the right handside: "A collection of photos, essays, and creative work inspired by the movement of the same name, a template for building new communities of healing, and a call to action."
Six equal sized boxes with a red outline separating them, all on top of a scarlet background. On top of the post it says "Global Day of Action to Destigmatise Abortion" and below are the boxes. From left to right, the left box contains a white book called "Shout Your Abortion", the box next to it is a colourful book with a rainbow swirl called "Choice Words: Writers on Abortion", the right box has a split colour book (top half beige with the title on it and the bottom half, a light purple photograph of an unclear subject, called "So We Can Know: writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth." The bottom row of boxes, from left to right, is a white book with black text of the title called "Abortion Pills Go Global", next is a black book with a green triangle in the centre and half white half green text called "Abortion beyond the law" and the final book is a light yellow cover with purple bubble letters and a cartoon of a woman lying down called "My Mom Had an Abortion."
The founder of The Common Press Bookshop Aisha and the founder of The Scarlett Letters Bookshop Marin sitting together, holding black tote bags of The Common Press and The Scarlett Letters. Marin is also holding a blue cover book with pink title Sluts, by Beth Ashley
My mother laughs by chantal Akerman
A photo of a table in The Scarlett Letters bookshop. The table is covered in books of poetry and a sign reads: "Celebrating World Poetry Day".
'Sunrise On The Reaping' by Suzanne Collins displayed on a shelf with a red background
Non-fiction - All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt - A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa - Bessborough: Three Women. Three Decades. Three Stories of Courage. by Deirdre Finnerty - We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole - Fragments of Victory ed. by Oisin Gilmore and David Landy - Repealed: Ireland's unfinished fight for reproductive rights by Camilla Fitzsimons
The background is the same but the heading reads 'Classics' followed by these books: - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Dubliners by James Joyce - Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Irish Ghost Stories ed. by David Stuart Davies - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
The background is a dark green to orange vertical gradient. The heading reads 'Contemporary Fiction' and the following book covers are displayed in a grid below: - Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - Kala by Colin Walsh - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney - Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna - Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Dark green heading on a pale green background says 'Irish writers you need to read.' Underneath in a smaller black text reads 'From the classical to the contemporary, here is a list of some of our favourites in Irish literature to celebrate St Patrick’s Day!' The Scarlett Letters logo sits above, and there are four leaf clovers dotted around the background.