...books featuring romance, books about women’s sexual experiences, and books about rape or sexual abuse as well as continued attacks on books with LGBTQ+ characters or themes, or books about race or racism and featuring characters of color." 📸: KC Green #letfreedomread#righttoread 2/2
For @insidephilanthropy.com#philanthropy#literature#poetry#democracy#righttoread
The literary arts only receive a tiny sliver of overall arts funding, and the Poetry Foundation has emerged as one of the top grantmakers in that space. Here’s a look at this equity-minded funder’s ...
I grew up in a rural community, where I was free to come and go to our county library. It was ( and I suspect still is ) a life saver. The rage I feel that other young people have been stripped of their #RightToReadliteraryactivism.substack.com/p/an-idaho-p...
The decision is a result of a state bill that allows parents to sue libraries with "inappropriate material."
If it felt to you like book banners were in overdrive last year, your instincts weren't wrong: 2023 saw more books challenged (over 4,000 unique titles) than any year since the ALA began tracking censorship efforts. #booksnotbans#freespeechforall#righttoread
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