To our friends, neighbors, and community,

At the end of December 2025, Making Worlds will be leaving our 45th Street location in West Philadelphia, our home since 2020. We are still finalizing plans for what comes next, but will keep you posted! Please stay tuned through our newsletter and website for updates. 

Our doors will officially close to the public on Sunday, December 21st. You can redeem gift certificates and/or enjoy sustaining membership perks until then. 

In the meantime, please do keep an eye out for a busy November events calendar, come browse our newest titles, and continue to hold community and inspiration with others in our space. 

We would like to thank our community of supporters—both in Philadelphia and elsewhere—who have given their time, energy, resources, skills, and brilliance to keeping this project alive during these tumultuous political times. It is a space you’ve helped us fill with love, vision, and collective courage over the last five years. It's no small feat to create a community bookstore and social center that offers a space of engagement and possibility for a better collective future. We know we are stronger together.

Statement in Solidarity with Palestine 

Making Worlds Cooperative stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people resisting a hundred-year-old war on their lands and life as well as an apartheid regime that has resulted in immense violence for families, communities, and the environment. This is a long-standing settler colonial war that has been waged by the Israeli state on Palestine, most recently manifesting in the genocide and ethnic cleaning campaign in Gaza that has, to this day, killed over 30,000 Palestinians, nearly half of whom are children, injured over 70,000, and displaced at least one million Palestinians in the first 6 months alone. 

Settler violence in the West Bank is also on the rise, with a growing death toll and increased instances of displacement across the occupied territories. Alongside the millions of people across the globe voicing opposition to the war crimes being committed in Palestine, we demand an immediate ceasefire, a removal of the blockade on Gaza, and a permanent end to the Israeli colonial siege and occupation of all Palestinian geographies—including a reinstatement of the Palestinian right to self-determination and a return of their homelands.

Those of us who reside in the United States of America—a settler colony built through genocide, land dispossession, and slavery—must stand up to the US government’s pledge to send billions of dollars more to the state of Israel, a move designed to aid in the annihilation of Palestine. The US government currently sends $3.8 billion annually to fund Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian land which results in the widespread eviction of Palestinians families from their homes and neighborhoods, violent border control and restrictions on movement, suppression of Palestinian economies, gender and sexual violence, a pervasive and relentless system of colonial surveillance, policing and incarceration, and the torture and killing of Palestinian people. 

It is our responsibility to mobilize, to speak out, and to demand that the United States and other western countries cease to create the conditions of impunity for Israel to act without consequence on an international stage. It is our mission at Making Worlds Cooperative to learn from and promote collective knowledge, skills, and visions of liberation from our communities. We aim to amplify, nurture, and deepen our bonds of resistance with those fighting colonial state violence worldwide.  

Both Israel and the United States benefit from the racial, colonial capitalism and subjugation of Indigenous peoples that drives these settler state projects. It is our collective refusal of this from which real solidarity—and therefore the possibility of freedom for all—will stem. 

From Turtle Island to Palestine, we stand unconditionally with the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom and support anticolonial liberation struggles for oppressed people everywhere.

February 2024