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Jun 25

Without safe and legal abortion, my bookstore wouldn’t exist.

I am the founder, owner, and leader of a scrappy, literary, loving, passionately welcoming little corner of the world we call Content Bookstore, and in 1999, I had an abortion. I was 22 years old, engaged to be married to someone I’m not married to today, and our birth control…

Roe V Wade

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·Jun 25, 2020

Why Wearing Masks Makes Some of My Customers So Uncomfortable

Thoughts on White privilege from a retailer — We opened the bookstore to the public a week ago last Thursday. We’re asking a few things of customers, including that they wear masks. It feels like a lot to ask my employees to expose themselves to aerosol droplets from people who come to our town from all over, especially…

Coronavirus

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Why Wearing Masks Makes Some of My Customers So Uncomfortable
Why Wearing Masks Makes Some of My Customers So Uncomfortable
Jessica Peterson White

Jessica Peterson White

Bookseller, city councilor, mother. Using this space to break s*** down.

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