Always always listen to Andrew. Book bans are deeply harmful.

I won the LA Times Book Prize for YA literature!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black text on a yellow background reads: “Authors Against Book Bans speak out” and “Ryan Estrada” accompanied by an image of a man wearing glasses and the cover of the book “Banned Book Club”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What’s your name and most challenged book?” “My name is Ryan Estrada. Ironically, my book Banned Book Club, which I wrote with my wife Kim Hyun Sook about her experiences smuggling illegal books under a dictator in 1980s Korea, has been banned in six different cities. My second most banned book is Occulted, about how my friend Amy Rose used banned books to escape a UFO death cult. I guess the book banners really don’t like to see that their tactics are the same as despots and cult leaders.”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What’s your experience with being banned?” “I thought I was writing about history. When we started writing in 2017, book banning was not a topic of discussion in the US. In fact, the reason we got our book deal was that the editor was SHOCKED at the idea that South Korea was only a few decades away from having state-banned books. By the time the book came out three years later, not only were books being banned by the hundreds, but our book quickly became one of them.”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What do you wish readers in general knew about book bans? It’s all a show. They claim to be a giant network of parents concerned about pornography in schools, but that’s all a lie. It’s like a dozen people, and I know all of them [...] None of them have children in the school districts they target. Many don’t even live in those districts and drive in from another state. They are political operatives, funded by organizations whose investments in private schools are benefited by making public schools worse, or whose campaigns benefit from damaging libraries.

We asked members of @authorsabb.bsky.social to share their experiences of being banned. Thank you @ryanestrada.com for sharing your story!

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Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Saturday, May 2 Early Vo...

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas.

And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children's Publishing Right Now: Book Censorship News, April 10, 2026 Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's the result of book censorship.

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now.

Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's the result of book censorship.

bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

GOOD!

Image of a book on fire. Below, the text "book censorship news" is in white.

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now.

Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live.

bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

Photo of a PowerPoint presentation and a newspaper headline from 1878. Death and destruction! Awful calamity! And more.

One of my earliest memories was going with my dad to visit the gravestones of the millers killed in the explosion in 1878. Exciting!

Iowa can now fully enforce its 'don't say gay' and school book ban law, after appeals court vacates injunctions - Little Village Iowa can now enforce all parts of SF 496 — commonly known as the “don’t say gay” bill because of its provisions prohibiting references to LGBTQ topics in K-6 schools, requiring written parental permis...

SF 496 was a wide-ranging education bill passed w/ only Republican support and signed into law in May 2023. It mandated public schools remove all books with “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” except for approved science or health class texts.
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Urgent: The State Wide Reading List is Back. We need your help, TODAY!

‼️ATTN TEXAS:
The State Reading List is Back.

Act now:
🗣️ Testify in Austin- Tuesday, April 7 (register by 5PM Friday)
💻 Submit an informal comment. (by 5pm Saturday)
📧 Email the SBOE (before Tuesday)

Links + details here:

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So very sorry.

Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said…

“Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement.

Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Donate to Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need, organized by Dianne M On March 30th, the Rutherford County Library Board terminated Luanne James from her pos… Dianne M needs your support for Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content.

"I will not comply."

They sacked her and cops escorted her out.

She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

I'm driven by rage research.

I'd LOVE to see yours :) We'll remember each other sadly for the next one. SIGH. ONWARD!

do you want a link? I dedupped and have good titles are nearly all. They are MOST DEF all childrens - middle grade and picture book. I didn't think they would do another Brad Meltzer book, but there we are.

Wait! I have a spreadsheet!

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"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board

RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

This is the job, folks!

bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

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For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Omg. These people. .and sadly not surprised at all.

From me and @authorsabb.bsky.social, call your rep today and tell them to vote NO on HR 7661

It's a bigoted book banning bullshit bill and we don't need it.

100% OFC

Who is going to be at PLA in Minneapolis?

Such important work. Thank you. Also we should ask ourselves who financially benefits from this? Cause it's not the librarians? Also these tools flag books influenced in large part not by the content they vacuum up but the lists out in the universe of "problematic books"

I'm so sorry.

Re Chavez:
Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today.

Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵