Stephanie Williams
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🍷One of my quiet guerrilla tactics against book banners is to buy banned books at the thrift store and place them in Little Free Libraries:
Anthony Baker@mckra1g You rock, Molly.
Tracy Thomas@mckra1g I don’t even want to know why that book is banned. It was such a rock for me as a pre teen.
Jenna 🇨🇦I love this so much!
Andolamin@mckra1g This is brilliant! I’m definitely going to start doing this as well
Olle Gladsø@mckra1g Way to go!
Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚wonderful idea! 👍🏽
Stormcat@mckra1g Just one of numerous reasons I can't wait to construct my own Little Free Library!
Seth 🎙️
@mckra1g such a great book!
Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ@mckra1g Genius move! I love it :)
Katiame@mckra1g Great idea!
TarheelPalmetto@mckra1g you’re a freaking legend
7islucky@mckra1g Such a wonderful gesture‼️
zeruch@mckra1g Now that's a solid tactic.
Litzz11@mckra1g OMG I do the same thing!!!
Nazani@mckra1g If you have a FL of your own, I reccomend a camera to record any vandalism.
Hugh Ferguson@mckra1g those books were the staple of my upbringing. Can't believe they are getting cancelled. I wonder if Then Again, Maybe I Won't, which featured the 13 yr old protagonist using binoculars to stare at the 16 yr old neighbour girl made the banned list.
💀 𝓕airchild 💀
Health Is Wealth@mckra1g Banned books?? Are you in the US? How are banned books even a thing? Well, in the west at least? Now I'm wondering if we have any here in the UK where I'm currently based... Now I need to find out...
Kim Possible 
@mckra1g Not all (s)heroes wear capes.
Jo - pièce de résistance@mckra1g My friend's award winning books are often on banned books lists, but they save lives. They deal with cults, escaping abuse, incest, being lgbtq, self harm, and healing, surviving.
Cheryl Rainfield is an amazing person and author. She writes from personal, horrific, experiences.
cherylrainfield.com
my other friend (Debbie Ohi) illustrated the covers for these Judy Blume editions.
Sharonbw stands with Minnesota@mckra1g
I cannot tell you how much I love this idea! Brilliant.
I cannot tell you how much I love this idea! Brilliant.
Flying_Donny for democracy@mckra1g Someone who lives right by the local high school set up a little free banned-books library in his yard.
Earthy in EV heaven@mckra1g excellent idea!
Kirsty@mckra1g geez!! That’s a really good book for teenage girls. Probably boys as well.
Oggie@mckra1g
Banned books are usually great books! As a rule, it only makes those lists if it's 1) interesting in some fashion and 2) promotes some thoughts that aren't well liked. Really obscene badly written stuff never gets banned because nobody cares enough.
That said, I think Catcher in the Rye is just...not very good, and honestly we should stop trying to force kids to read it. Give them something they can sink their teeth into instead!
gdtrfb@mckra1g Veteran move.
Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷@mckra1g Fantastic I will keep an eye out and start doing the same.
Katja@mckra1g I may have read that one to the point of having it memorized.
Jens Hannemann@mckra1g Awesome! Let's see how long it takes them to catch on. Little Free Libraries being banned in 3, 2, 1…
Paulie 🚲🥃🧀@mckra1g which moron is banning Judy Blume books?
smells of bikes@mckra1g I help run three LFLs and we actively seed our throughput (about 100 books a week) with banned books.
Riley S. Faelan@mckra1g I have already seen some right-wingers complain about books they want banned showing up in Little Free Libraries.
Keep up the good work!
Rich Stein (he/him)@mckra1g
Great initiative:
Pretty sure teens & young adults in the US can still get an eCard (borrow ebooks, audio, etc.) from the Brooklyn Public Library: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-teenagers-can-borrow-banned-books-for-free-from-brooklyn-public-library/
There's no online application — email the library @ [email protected] to request a free card.
More: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
Similar programs with free eCards for **all** youth nationwide —
Boston: https://www.bpl.org/books-unbanned/
San Diego: https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/booksunbanned
Seattle: https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned
Jenny@mckra1g @msbellows I love this. I think I will do the same. Finally something that makes me want to look at those long lists of banned books…I will smile instead of cry. 🙂
NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️🌈You are fighting the good fight with wisdom and wit! This is a wonderful act!
Darius@mckra1g @VisualStuart Nicely done!
Steve Dustcircle 🌹@mckra1g Tip of the Cub cap to you.
@mckra1g In the same vein, I try to spread the word about free #library eCards for youth:
https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/111696255442772818
#read #LibrariesAreAwesome #SpreadTheWord #bookstadon
https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/111696255442772818
#read #LibrariesAreAwesome #SpreadTheWord #bookstadon