"There are ethical concerns if we pay you for your story, but we have no concerns about getting paid to tell it" is just ridiculous tbh!!

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Please for the love of god care about disabled people

god I love Merlin, one of my original ✨️gay but "not"✨️ shows. always holds a special place in my heart

I just finished "Breasts and Eggs" by Mieko Kawakami and it is now my favorite book of all time

I'm excited to check out Heaven next! I'm reading Breasts and Eggs right now and it's so good! One of my favorite books of all time

Breasts and Eggs, my first Kawakami novel! excited to read the rest of her catalog after! 💙

• Get a library card
• Use your library card
• Support indie booksellers
• Read banned books
• Read diverse authors
• Resist
• Repeat

#booksky #resist

if you have read "This Is How You Lose the Time War," by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, it's one of my favorite books and I would love to hear your thoughts on it! what an amazing piece of queer art

Please stop armchair diagnosing people with mental disorders, even if you don't like them and think they're evil ✨

Stigmatising people with mental disorders is ableism/saneism and you're kinda gross for contributing to that ✨

#Accessibility #AltTalk

Anyways, here are some other cool fantasy authors. Please share your favourites too!

Holly Black
Cherie Dimaline
Nnedi Okorafor
Malinda Lo
Aidan Thomas
Seanan McGuire
Kenneth Oppel
Tomi Adeyemi
Patrick Ness
Sabaa Tahir
Shade Lapite
Clara Kumagai
Eden Robinson
Tasha Suri

Ismatu uses they/them pronouns fyi!

how timely of a book premise 😭

Claiming audiobooks "don't count" is ableist and stupid. Consume your content in the fashion most enjoyable and convenient. #booksky