Advocate.com [Unofficial]Don’t let Congress censor America’s school libraries
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/hr7661-congress-school-library-censorship
Wendy PalmerRE: https://indieauthors.social/@indieauthornews/116679939545553224
This is a link to the full version of this article (the below link was a shorter version). This is important: the bigots are winning in the US. Unrelenting censorship attempts are having the desired quelling effect, and the fight for diverse books needs reinforcements.
https://bookriot.com/queer-books-are-at-a-breaking-point/
Sixty small actions you can take (many US specific, but some suitable anywhere):
https://bookriot.com/how-to-defend-the-right-to-read-2026/
This Pride month, if you can, buy queer books and/or ask your library to get them in!
azteclady
getmischIn 2022, Atwood & publisher had a fire-proof copy made of her "The Handmaid's Tale". After trying & failing to burn it (pictured), Sotheby's auctioned it off for $130K with money going to PEN America (founded 1922), to fight censorship, book bans, etc.
The book's been banned by entire countries!
She said she stopped writing it several times bc it seemed so far-fetched(!)
#TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #PENAmerica #PEN #USA #censorship #BookBans #TX #PA #FL #OK #GOP
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/margaret-atwood-tried-and-failed-to-burn-copy-handmaids-tale-unburnable-fireproof-180980223/
The book's been banned by entire countries!
She said she stopped writing it several times bc it seemed so far-fetched(!)
#TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #PENAmerica #PEN #USA #censorship #BookBans #TX #PA #FL #OK #GOP
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/margaret-atwood-tried-and-failed-to-burn-copy-handmaids-tale-unburnable-fireproof-180980223/
California city that banned the Pride flag poised to get powerful gay congressman
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/huntington-beach-robert-garcia
Techdirt [Unofficial]Knox County, TN Rolls Back ‘Roots’ Book Ban After Backlash
"What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers"--Freedom to Ready Project (in Bluesky)
#FreedomToRead #BookBans #Censorship #Bigotry #Writing @bookstodon
IndieAuthors.Social NewsFighting Oppression: 5 Graphic Novels About Book Banning
Up your knowledge and insights into censorship across time and place with these excellent graphic novels about book banning.
https://bookriot.com/graphic-novels-about-book-banning/
nat weaverIndie authors must be political
📚 Indie authors: people will complain about you and call you too political, and beg you to stick to writing fiction. But if we don’t speak up and push back, our stories will be banned from libraries, book stores, and online. It’s already happening.
Literally if I don’t get political there’s a real chance I won’t be able to write stories anymore because it’ll be illegal for me to do so.
So I say: write like hell and yell like hell. Because our stories deserve to be read.
#CallToAction: call your Congresscritters NOW. Tell them to vote no on all three book banning, transphobic, shitty bills.
Graphic by Authors Against Book Bans' Jerrold Connors
#USPolitics #BookBans #Transphobia #Bigotry #Censorship #Libraries #FreedomToRead #AuthorsAgainstBookBans
