Collection:
History & Culture
Goldwork Embroidery Chinese Style
Today meets Yesterday
Europe meets USA
A Brief History of Protest Art
The Book Collectors of Daraya
Buses Are A Comin'
Tate Photography: Liz Johnson-Artur
Let's Talk
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Decolonize Museums
History of South Africa
Notes of a Native Son
The Cult of Progress
Women, Aging, and Art
Admissions
Time's Monster
What is Black Art?
Polynesia, 900-1600
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
Gwangju Uprising
Five Days
Connected History
Karachi Vice
Racecraft
Indelible City
Indigenous Women's Voices
The Black Joke
Begin Again
Am I Black Enough For You?
Journeys Towards Gender Equality in Islam
Native Country of the Heart
Happy Together
Our Women on the Ground
Revolutionary Women
Blues People
The Newlyweds
Consumed
Mokorua
Te Maiharoa and the Promised Land
Capitalism and Slavery
Australia Day
Marrul
Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Liberalism and its Discontents
A Taste of Power
The Interpreter's Daughter
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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.