#ReadMoreBooks - #ReadingIsFun
#FightIlliteracy

"Countless journalism, podcast projects, quantitative and qualitative research death knell the same morbid conclusion:
the US-American populace cannot read.

We know that #illiteracy— the inability to read, or the inability to read well enough to have it serve you— we know it’s a massive problem. An epidemic of sorts. We’re simply too exhausted to care."

https://www.threadings.io/youve-been-traumatized-into-hating/

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

Threadings.
Banned Books List 2025

What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

PEN America
Book Ban Data

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, finding that challenges of unique titles surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022 numbers, reaching the highest level ever documented by ALA. Read the full announcement. OIF documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship, as well as 1,247 demands to censor library books, materials, and resources in 2023.

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