@massybooks
Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇 https://linktr.ee/MassyBooks
Does everyone know about Libro? You don't have to buy audiobooks from the world's worst people: Libro lets you designate a local bookstore to support instead. (E.g. my purchases support @massybooks.bsky.social.)
PLUS if you use my referral link I'll get a free book. 😍📚 >>> libro.fm/referral?rf_...
Happy new year from all of us at Massy! 🐎 Come by on Sunday, Feb. 22nd to witness the dragon come by our shop, and pick up a red envelope 🧧 Also feel free to browse our curated book list: shorturl.at/tNW1V
Gong Xi Fa Chai!
The fact that this tragic event in Tumbler Ridge immediately inspired calls for restrictions on gender-affirming care and trans rights at large in Canada should raise huge alarm bells for trans people and our allies, writes @melwoods.me
Feb 21st at Massy with Ziyad Saadi!
Come out
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Art depicting Native Hawaiians stabbing James Cook
On this day in 1779, Native Hawaiians stabbed British colonizer Captain James Cook in the neck.
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100% of all sales (online and in person) will be donated tomorrow to the fundraiser for families impacted by the Tumbler Ridge shooting ❤️
Massy has been shortlisted to be included in a book about bookstores across the globe 😃 I need a photographer to help within the next two days to take photos of the store! Anyone available?!
Rare opportunity to hear Tracey Lindberg read and launch her work in YVR! Only at Massy Books, March 6th at 7 pm
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Almost FULL! Get your tickets for this Saturday. In the longhouse at the Native Education College ❤️
Friday, February 13th at Massy Books!
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Event filled up and so we’ve moved the launch to the Native Education College at 285 E. 5th. More tickets now available!!
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Now FULL but a waitlist has been activated! If we can find a larger venue, we’ll let all those on the waitlist into the event :)
Happy New Year! 🥳 What better way to kick off 2026 than to announce what is sure to be an unforgettable event!
Join us for the launch of “On Wholeness” by Quill Christie-Peters, with Salia Joseph on Saturday, Jan 24th at Massy. Link in our bio 🔗
An enormously FUN day!! Thank you Jocelyn, Isabella, Santa, and our little elf for making it the most memorable day in Massy history ❤️
From all of us at Massy Books, happy holidays to you and your loved ones!🎄
Hours this week:
24th: 10-2pm
25th: CLOSED
26th: 11-6pm
We’re giving out rainbow lollipops to the kids too!
You’re welcome!
Santa called us today! He told us he, and Mrs. Clause (who is a very cool gal & avid reader 😉), are stopping by the bookstore on Tuesday, December 23rd between 1-3 pm!
Bring your kiddo’s, get a photo with Santa and a treat 🍭, and let him know what you’re hoping for this holiday season 🥰
Tomorrow!!
Dec 20th from 10-6 pm, EVERYTHING* in the store is 20% OFF!! First 65 customers also get a FREE drink, courtesy of Bee and Bee Coffee. Check out the menu ☕️ ❤️ One day only!
*doesn’t include fundraising items or already discounted books from the sale section*
No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine by @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social details how U.S. labor unions have played a key role in building and maintaining the state of Israel.
Thanks Rarian ❤️
My dad passed away just before COVID. He was a Union activist for 30+ years. He was known for his no-nonsense attitude, wide-ranging knowledge of law, and fairness. It is this fairness that has informed how I move through the world, and I know he would be proud if me.
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Also, I’m very much pro union. My dad was a rep for 30+ yrs, turned president at one point of Telecommunications Workers Union (now United Steelworkers). I grew up on the picket line. This type of behavior and tactics against a small Indigenous woman run bookstore makes the labour movement look bad
I never went through with the lawsuit, but it did stop the harassment for a while…until they threw 3 cans of paint on the front of my store…
I tried 6x to have facilitated dialogue w/ an Indigenous matriarch, to ease tensions & not only was I ignored, but they refused. It was only after I threatened to sue for defamation (I was hospitalized & held under mental health act due to harassment), they then agreed to talks if I dropped the suit
Appreciate Issac’s attempt to write a non-biased piece w/many moving parts, people & escalated tensions. I know we’re a sm. shop & there are bigger union stories to tackle, so grateful for the coverage. I do think someone needs to write on the complications & impacts of unionizing sm. businesses tho
Thanks, appreciate it
An analysis of unionizing small businesses is missing. It also erases that I’m an Indigenous owner, whose management was Indigenous informed, upholding the collective. Violence against me as an Indigenous woman was done in the name of the labour movement. This isn’t what the labour movement is
There is no collective agreement b/c I had no staff for 6 mos. I was forced to work 165 days in a row (while not paying myself) to make sure the bookstore survived. I was hospitalized due to stress. I’m working on an Indigenous informed agreement that hasn’t been done before. These things take time.
Except: I paid a living wage, gave 5 wks leave when hired, $2000 holiday bonuses & when people were either hospitalized or had their friends go missing, I continued to pay them even though they had no sick time. I, and Indigenous woman, did all this while not paying myself. Says all you need to know