Collection:
Art
Sashiko: The Untold Story
Theatre and Race
The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design
Design Against Racism
Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals
Reframing Blackness
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Dogs of the World
Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition
Design and Modernity in Asia: National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990
Women and Global Documentary
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
Poor Artists
Dress History of Korea
marramarra: Indigenous artists making history visible
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu
Liberation Begins in the Imagination
The African Lookbook
Black Art
Life Between Islands
Musical Truth
In the Black Fantastic
Today meets Yesterday
Europe meets USA
A Brief History of Protest Art
Tate Photography: Liz Johnson-Artur
The Cult of Progress
Women, Aging, and Art
What is Black Art?
Collective Movements
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.
