“A Conversation on Supporting Trans/Nonbinary Staff & Community”

May 18th at 1PM ET on Zoom
Open to booksellers from regionals across the country.

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In response to the alarming rise of anti-LGBTQ legislation, book bans, and attempts to repress LGBTQ free expression, SIBA is hosting a panel for booksellers on supporting trans and nonbinary staff and community. The event is open to all booksellers who are members of their regional bookselling associations.

Topics will include store and customer responses to local/state anti-trans legislation, best practices to address needs of trans/nonbinary staff, and community outreach and support.

Booksellers can submit topics or questions to the panel anonymously

Candice Huber, owner of Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop in New Orleans, LA and SIBA’s Member Relations Coordinator, will moderate the discussion, which includes Libertie Valance, a founding member and co-owner of Firestorm Books in Asheville, NC and E. R. Anderson, Executive Director of Charis Circle, the 501c3 non-profit programming arm of Charis Books in Decatur, GA.

The panelists:

Candice Huber (they/them) is a sixth generation New Orleanian who has owned New Orleans’ premier geeky, queer, progressive, and genre-focused bookstore, Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, named after their grandparents, for 9 years. They are the Member Relations Coordinator for SIBA and the Dean for the Bookstore Finances module for the Professional Booksellers School. They are also an instructor for the Store Operations and Events Management modules for PBS. Candice serves on the board for the Independent Booksellers Association of Greater New Orleans and on the national Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee for the ABA. They are also a writing, editing, publishing, bookstore operations and technology, and virtual event consultant. Candice established TALS Publishing in 2018, which has thus far published four books.

Errol "E.R." Anderson (they/them or he/him) manages the programming, fiscal, and daily operations of Charis Circle. A native Atlantan, E.R. came to Charis as one of the founding members of the Young Writer's Group in 1997, and has enjoyed helping build connections between communities of activists, artists, and academics in this city ever since. E.R. co-facilitates the Race Conscious Parenting Collective and the Gender Creative Parenting Collective, because he knows that when children receive a strong foundation in justice and liberation, they go on to change the world in unexpected and beautiful ways.