The Feminist Library is under threat of eviction and, for anyone living outside London, it’s tempting to greet the news with a bemused shrug. Most of the UK’s feminists are not able to access the Feminist Library on a regular basis and, as the internet has made feminist writers far easier to discover, the need for a physical library seems to diminish with each passing year.
Despite my own inability to access the collection I started making regular donations to the Feminist Library in June 2015, but it wasn’t until recently that I began to interrogate my motivation for doing so. I don’t live in London and I will probably never use the Feminist Library again, so why was I so concerned at the idea of the collection being dismantled or moved to a new location?
History repeating
