Book bans and censorship had no place in the 1600s. They have no place now.
#bookbans #bookbanning #SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #PublicEducation #EllenWeaver #JohnMilton
#bookbans #bookbanning #SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #PublicEducation #EllenWeaver #JohnMilton
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Book bans and censorship had no place in the 1600s. They have no place now.
#bookbans #bookbanning #SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #PublicEducation #EllenWeaver #JohnMilton
#bookbans #bookbanning #SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #PublicEducation #EllenWeaver #JohnMilton
Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons
November 24, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons
"Children don't need protection from books; they need protection from hate and discrimination."
#BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy
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#BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy
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Pride Puppy illustrator @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social and I wrote a statement on today's SCOTUS decision in the Mahmoud v Taylor case. Here it is.
July 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Children don't need protection from books; they need protection from hate and discrimination."
#BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy
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#BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy
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November 24, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I love this story written by #MargaretAtwood, #Canadian author, writer and advocate who has addressed the #Alberta #Bookbanning by #PremierDanielleSmith #cdnpoli #RealLifeHandMaidsTale
August 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I love this story written by #MargaretAtwood, #Canadian author, writer and advocate who has addressed the #Alberta #Bookbanning by #PremierDanielleSmith #cdnpoli #RealLifeHandMaidsTale
This Alberta school district banned six books from high school libraries last week, and there's been almost no media coverage. I hope someone with more information will share the titles.
Books should never silently disappear from the shelves.
www.thealbertan.com/innisfail-ne...
Books should never silently disappear from the shelves.
www.thealbertan.com/innisfail-ne...
Alberta school division removes 'mature thematic content' from libraries
Chinook's Edge has removed six titles from high schools while nothing removed from elementary or middle schools as it complies with ministerial order
www.thealbertan.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yes! Drive them into the sea!
Disclosure: I am a banned author.
#bookbans #bookbanning #MomsForLiberty
Disclosure: I am a banned author.
#bookbans #bookbanning #MomsForLiberty
No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Yes! Drive them into the sea!
Disclosure: I am a banned author.
#bookbans #bookbanning #MomsForLiberty
Disclosure: I am a banned author.
#bookbans #bookbanning #MomsForLiberty
*cough cough* Smith and Nicolaides, we all know what you are trying to do in Alberta... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #BookBanning
“A Hungarian law banning content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV has been found to violate basic human rights and freedom of expression by a senior legal scholar at the European court of justice.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ content violates human rights, says EU’s top court
ECJ advocate general condemns ‘stigmatising’ law that bars such content from schools and primetime TV
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
*cough cough* Smith and Nicolaides, we all know what you are trying to do in Alberta... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #BookBanning
October 30, 2024 at 11:43 AM
DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE OF AMERICA
THIS IS YOUR VIETNAM
GET ANGRY, GET ORGANISED, GET ACTIVE 👊
concerned of Australia
#project2025 #insanity #bookbanning #climatecatastrope
November 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM
DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE OF AMERICA
THIS IS YOUR VIETNAM
GET ANGRY, GET ORGANISED, GET ACTIVE 👊
concerned of Australia
#project2025 #insanity #bookbanning #climatecatastrope
Please help stop yet another book banning bill. Children should have the #RightToRead 📚❤️
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #bookbans #fightbookbans
Please sign the petition (and/or donate)
@everylibrary.bsky.social
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #bookbans #fightbookbans
Please sign the petition (and/or donate)
@everylibrary.bsky.social
A new bill in Congress would give school districts federal funding to fight book bans. It's called H.R.7691, the Fight Book Bans Act
Email Congress and sign the petition:
action.everylibrary.org/schoollibrar...
via @everylibrary.bsky.social
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #fightbookbans #freedomtoread
Email Congress and sign the petition:
action.everylibrary.org/schoollibrar...
via @everylibrary.bsky.social
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #fightbookbans #freedomtoread
School Library Action Week - Back the bills.
Help support libraries across the country by taking action today!
action.everylibrary.org
April 30, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Please help stop yet another book banning bill. Children should have the #RightToRead 📚❤️
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #bookbans #fightbookbans
Please sign the petition (and/or donate)
@everylibrary.bsky.social
#stopbookbans #bookbanning #bookbans #fightbookbans
Please sign the petition (and/or donate)
@everylibrary.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Re-upping this, because it's a solid tool against #BookBanning and #censorship. "This stops 90 percent of them in their tracks."
Soft censorship is so scary, but this is such a good policy
July 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Re-upping this, because it's a solid tool against #BookBanning and #censorship. "This stops 90 percent of them in their tracks."
June 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Canadian Publishing 2025: U.S. Book Bans Trouble Canadian Publishers buff.ly/gEqzIFO
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Today in History: On May 10, 1933, book burnings were held in 34 cities across Germany, targeting authors whose ideologies were in conflict with Nazism. #stopbookbans #bookbanning #FReadom
May 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Today in History: On May 10, 1933, book burnings were held in 34 cities across Germany, targeting authors whose ideologies were in conflict with Nazism. #stopbookbans #bookbanning #FReadom
Writer/author friends who've been sweating out the #bookbanning #bannedbooks battle, here's an imaginative solution from the gaming world.
They built a massive virtual library in MINECRAFT and have been stocking it with banned materials from around the globe.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
They built a massive virtual library in MINECRAFT and have been stocking it with banned materials from around the globe.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Writer/author friends who've been sweating out the #bookbanning #bannedbooks battle, here's an imaginative solution from the gaming world.
They built a massive virtual library in MINECRAFT and have been stocking it with banned materials from around the globe.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
They built a massive virtual library in MINECRAFT and have been stocking it with banned materials from around the globe.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
My friend Tamara published her first LTE today! About the #bookbanning efforts in our local library system (where I work). And I LOVE IT! #FreedomToRead #libraries
cdapress.com/news/2025/ja...
cdapress.com/news/2025/ja...
January 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My friend Tamara published her first LTE today! About the #bookbanning efforts in our local library system (where I work). And I LOVE IT! #FreedomToRead #libraries
cdapress.com/news/2025/ja...
cdapress.com/news/2025/ja...
In positive news, a progressive local candidate for school board won 3000 to 700 over a bookbanning transphobe 🥳
April 3, 2024 at 4:46 PM
In positive news, a progressive local candidate for school board won 3000 to 700 over a bookbanning transphobe 🥳
Seeking this out immediately. #bookbanning
The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries
A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Seeking this out immediately. #bookbanning
Katy ISD is removing classic titles, including ironically, Slaughterhouse Five, the book at the center of the Supreme Court's Pico ruling barring censorship for the "ideas within." #txlege #bookbanning #bannedbooks #FReadom @maggietokudahall.bsky.social @oif.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social
Hey Texas #booksky -Katy ISD added 14 titles to their list of “removed” (ie: banned) books last week- bringing the total books banned since August 2024 to 34.
Visit www.txftrp.org/katy_isd_ban... for the complete list, and action you can take to fight for the freedom to read in Katy ISD.
Visit www.txftrp.org/katy_isd_ban... for the complete list, and action you can take to fight for the freedom to read in Katy ISD.
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Katy ISD is removing classic titles, including ironically, Slaughterhouse Five, the book at the center of the Supreme Court's Pico ruling barring censorship for the "ideas within." #txlege #bookbanning #bannedbooks #FReadom @maggietokudahall.bsky.social @oif.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1/10 🚨 ALBERTA GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP EXPOSED 🚨
Alberta used lists of America's "Most Banned Books" to ban books in Alberta schools.
Investigative Journalism Foundation's Brett McKay reveals how staff secretly compiled book targets.
#BookBanning #Alberta #ABpoli
Alberta used lists of America's "Most Banned Books" to ban books in Alberta schools.
Investigative Journalism Foundation's Brett McKay reveals how staff secretly compiled book targets.
#BookBanning #Alberta #ABpoli
July 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
1/10 🚨 ALBERTA GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP EXPOSED 🚨
Alberta used lists of America's "Most Banned Books" to ban books in Alberta schools.
Investigative Journalism Foundation's Brett McKay reveals how staff secretly compiled book targets.
#BookBanning #Alberta #ABpoli
Alberta used lists of America's "Most Banned Books" to ban books in Alberta schools.
Investigative Journalism Foundation's Brett McKay reveals how staff secretly compiled book targets.
#BookBanning #Alberta #ABpoli