30+ cool feminist gifts, all supporting women makers and women-owned shops

If she's been meaning to take up embroidery, this might be the kit that gets her started.

$45, Create the Culture

Male tears are so 2017. Going forward, we're drinking strong black coffee and Emily McDowell knows it.

$15, Em & Friends

A donation in her name to insure girls around the world get educations? Perfection.

$ varies

This particular shirt is no longer available through Omaze, however you can still support Planned Parenthood and Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund
which creates impact for both women's health and LGBTQ youth.

$25, Omaze

You can never have to many. Plus, each one helps support Planned Parenthood
so they can continue providing essential heathcare to women.

$8, Shrill Society

if this isn't the iconic feminist gift of the year, we don't know what is.

$26, Brave New World Designs

Related: 17 feminist gifts that honor our activist women friends after a long, hard year

Equally effective when filled with bourbon or bubbly water.

$56, Love & Victory (via West Elm)

We don't normally think of beach towels as holiday gifts but we happily make an exception for this gorgeous one
by Gina Gregorio, which supports Emily's List with 50% of the profits.

Unfortunately GinaGinaGinaGinaGina no longer sells these, but you can buy her brilliant HEALTHCARE sweatshirt (that doesn't say Healthcare)

Tons of fun pouches at this cool shop, but this one says a lot in a single word.

$28, Speakeasy Works

Margaret Atwood's signature, circa 1986. Prescient.

$375, HasBeane Books -- no longer available, but many other options are.

To keep her cozy, comfy, and motivated. If that one isn't available, try the R rated versions. 

$10, Always Fits

Amazing handmade gift for under $15.

$13.99, The Blacker the Berry

Sometimes, it's good to be feared.

$21, Sugar Lump Creations

The perfect daily reminder.

$32, Paloma's Nest

Find one near you. Shop there! Support them!
Need help? Start with Antigone Books in Tuscon, Bluestockings in NY (shown here), Bookwoman in Austin

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Because we're gonna include women in the sequel.

If sold out, check this one from woman-owned Acorn & Co

$16, The Joyful Fox

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Edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, featuring 23 leading feminist authors including Rebecca Solnit, Cheryl Strayed, Nicole Chung, Zerlina Maxwell, Jill Filipovic, Samantha Irby, Randa Jarrar. If she doesn't know them all -- she'll want to.

$16, Word Bookstore

Jackalope is Minneapolis' all-female artist tattoo shop, and Amo Tarvis created this amazing Paper Bag Princess tattoo. Who's up for a road trip?

$ varies, Jackalope Tattoo

So happy to have discovered Philly artist Nicole Krecicki, who lets you fill your walls with art on upcycled vinyl records
featuring icons as diverse as Patti Smith, Queen Latifah, Siouxie Sioux, Joan Jett and The Go-Gos.

$20, Rainbow Alternative

This line is relevant for so many women, forever and ever.

$60, Heart & Stone Jewelry

Required reading.

"We Should All be Feminists" $7.95 , Bluestockings Bookstore

"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."

$11, Radical Dreams

Choose a gift to make in her name: Support women entrepreneurs, help build a girls' school, ensure healthy babies,
provide blankets or mosquito nets, invest in a small business.

$20 and up, Oxfam America

Damn straight.

$55, Otherwild

Don't let the bastards grind you down. To help ensure they won't, $2 from each print supports the ACLU.

$20, The Joyful Fox

Because writing Congress is far more effective than sheetcaking.

$9, Bullish

Happy holidays, from the original Supremes. (And yeah, it hits a lot differently now.)

$4.95, The Card Bureau

Launched in 2005 as a progressive, nonpartisan organization raising the visibility, viability and decision-making power of women and girls in media to ensure their stories get told and their voices are heard. Sounds good to us.

$ varies

Maybe with a copy of Becoming. 

$12, Sweet and Lovely

'tis the season.

$9.36, Bullish