The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚

Imagining/hoping that the takeaway from Banned Books Week won’t be “only 11 ppl are behind most book challenges?” but that despite how unpopular book bans are there is also an accelerating mission to destroy public libraries as an institution

We’re LIVE, join us for UNBANNED! with Alison Bechdel and Rachel DeWoskin.

And we're raising money for EveryLibrary to fight book banning and stop censorship, please consider donating and spread the word.

www.crowdcast.io/c/itkudig5ye7r

Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison Her music makes me feel that I’m still part of the world I left behind.

this week there were two extraordinary articles about people creating humane worlds for themselves within and against the dehumanizing logics of incarceration. more like this, and also abolition.

www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...

How You Can Fight Censorship: Resources for Booksellers | Penguin Random House Mitchell Kaplan, an independent bookstore owner shares his perspective on the active book bans and resources for booksellers.

How You Can Fight Censorship: resources for booksellers in the fight against book bans, from Books & Books owner and WDA national steering committee member Mitchell Kaplan.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/res...

PETITION: Don't Ban Books in the United States Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

Please sign and share this EveryLibrary petition to join the fight against book bans and government censorship:
action.everylibrary.org/bannedbooks

WRITERS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION presents the DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB: Rachel DeWoskin & Tracie D. Hall Locally-owned, independent neighborhood bookstore

🗓️WED 8/30, 7 PM ET
DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB
Rachel DeWoskin in conversation with American Library Association Executive Director Tracie D. Hall!

Register to join us:
www.booksandbooks.com/event/writers-for-democr...

WRITERS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION presents the DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB: Rachel DeWoskin & Tracie D. Hall Locally-owned, independent neighborhood bookstore

🗓️WED 8/30, 7 PM ET
DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB
Rachel DeWoskin in conversation with American Library Association Executive Director Tracie D. Hall!

Register to join us:
www.booksandbooks.com/event/writers-for-democr...

exciting project that draws upon the work of Howard Librarian Dorothy Porter ~~ see below

Our Mission Writers for Democratic Action is committed to bringing together the literary community to demand racial, gender, and economic justice, protect reproductive and LGBTQIA rights, champion suffrage for all people, oppose impediments to democratic government, and resist white supremacist, nationalist, and fascist movements. We stand vigilant in the service of the republic to promote the common good.

We are 3,000+ writers and growing, and we partner with bookstores, libraries, presses, and literary orgs to promote and protect democracy in the US and worldwide.

Add your name:
writersfordemocraticaction.org/join-us

And check out our #DemocracyBookClub. 📚