📚📹 WATCH: I spoke to NYT bestselling author Jean Kwok for @NationalWorld on 'insane' book bans in US amid challenge to remove her work

https://www.nationalworld.com/us/news/us-book-bans-author-jean-kwok-challenging-historical-echoes-authoritarianism-4104831

#BookRecommendations #bannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek #banned

I read a banned book in my lifetime have you guys? #bannedbooksweek

A friend is wondering if there is a charity or nonprofit that raises funds for librarians who get jailed for keeping queer books on shelves.
Anyone know?

#lgbtq #lgbtqMastodon #charity #crowdFund #library #librarian #librariansOfMastodon #librarianMastodon #bannedBooks #books #bannedBooksWeek #queerFolks #queerTopics #queerBooks #queerFiction #BookMastodon #bookstadon #LibraryFedi

Huntsville Public Library (TX) Privatized After Pride Display https://bookriot.com/huntsville-public-library-privatization/

#LibraryServicesSystems #HuntsvillePublicLibrary #BannedBooksWeek #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #ALA

RT @qz@twitter.com

📚 As #BannedBooksWeek draws to a close in the US, the pile of forbidden texts is only stacking up. According to the @ALALibrary@twitter.com, the number of banned books in US schools and libraries has more than doubled from last year. https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking-in-the-us-here-are-the-most-targ-1849565948

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/qz/status/1573338625760464897

RT @ryanestrada@twitter.com

Today the head of a book banning org complained about Banned Book Club disrespecting the police.

So here's the climactic cop-punching sequence for your #BannedBooksWeek perusal.

Yes, surviving a post-coup murderous military regime sometimes involved punching. That's history.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ryanestrada/status/1572923525509578752

RT @ryanestrada@twitter.com

Today the head of a book banning org complained about Banned Book Club disrespecting the police.

So here's the climactic cop-punching sequence for your #BannedBooksWeek perusal.

Yes, surviving a post-coup murderous military regime sometimes involved punching. That's history.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ryanestrada/status/1572923525509578752

This week is #BannedBooksWeek.

- 2,532 individual banned books
- 1,648 unique book titles
- 1,261 different authors
- 290 illustrators
- 138 school districts
- 32 states
- 5,049 schools
- 4 million students

- 41% LGBTQ+ theme
- 40% prominent characters of color;
- 21% directly address issues of race and racism

Most books were banned in the red cancel culture states of Texas and Florida. https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

On the upside: the bigots clearly know their ideology is indefensible.

Damn, and right at the start of #BannedBooksWeek. Now, not saying there is necessarily a connection, but given the current times of #fuckery we live in...

Stay safe library folk.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/09/19/credible-bomb-threat-forces-fort-worth-libraries-to-close-earl

RT @cathygjohn
I appreciate Lambda Legal not shying away from my criticisms of #BannedBooksWeek and pulling quotes directly from me. This isn't an advertising opportunity for sales, this is a fight for rights.

RT @levarburton@twitter.com

It’s #BannedBooksWeek y’all! Read the books they don’t want you to read.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banned-books-week-authors-levar-burton-nora-roberts-cec/index.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1572005642424156160

RT @levarburton@twitter.com

It’s #BannedBooksWeek y’all! Read the books they don’t want you to read.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banned-books-week-authors-levar-burton-nora-roberts-cec/index.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1572005642424156160

RT @levarburton@twitter.com

It’s #BannedBooksWeek y’all! Read the books they don’t want you to read.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banned-books-week-authors-levar-burton-nora-roberts-cec/index.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1572005642424156160

RT @internetarchive@twitter.com

It's #BannedBooksWeek - let's come together against #censorship and for #accesstoknowledge https://bannedbooksweek.org/ @ALALibrary@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1571967438186778624

RT @levarburton@twitter.com

It’s #BannedBooksWeek y’all! Read the books they don’t want you to read.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banned-books-week-authors-levar-burton-nora-roberts-cec/index.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1572005642424156160

One way to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek is to use #FreeSoftware to read your #BannedBooks. Free software puts the reader in control, and, because the software code is auditable, means that it can be checked against snooping and snitching antifeatures.

Much of the buzz I'm seeing around #BannedBooksWeek amounts to "Don't ban books that I like." For one, a quote from Jesus is appropriate: "Do not your enemies do the same?"

PEN America updated its ‘Banned in the USA’ report on the state of censorship across the states.

https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

The #BannedBooksWeek themed “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” begins online events today, and will continue until Thursday.

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/advocacy/bbooks/events

You can take action and email your representative at this link

https://action.everylibrary.org/nationalaccess?utm_campaign=fl_no_state&utm_medium=email&utm_source=votelibraries

or also donate to fight #bookbanning here

https://action.everylibrary.org/donatebanning?utm_campaign=fl_no_state&utm_medium=email&utm_source=votelibraries

#literary #news #radlitnews

RT @Europeanaeu@twitter.com

#DidYouKnow that the earliest known list of recommended and banned books dates from about 496? Read our blog to learn more
➡️ https://bit.ly/3i4gpCu
#BannedBooksWeek #MedievalTwitter #MedievalReads

RT @Europeanaeu@twitter.com

#DidYouKnow that the earliest known list of recommended and banned books dates from about 496? Read our blog to learn more
➡️ https://bit.ly/3i4gpCu
#BannedBooksWeek #MedievalTwitter #MedievalReads