I donated today! It's been so meaningful to be part of @authorsabb.bsky.social, you don't need to donate to be a member and support this work, but if you can, it's very appreciated 📚💕👏

UPDATE! An Act Regarding Free Expression passed the Senate yesterday WITH ALL OUR AMENDMENTS! Huge thank you to everyone who contacted your Senators on this tight timeline! Stay tuned for when this moves to the House. HOORAY!

@authorsabb.bsky.social is officially a nonprofit! Please consider donating!

Some good news out of Maryland!

So if you want to see what it looks like when we can afford to use REAL organizing tools, and potentially even HIRE someone to help us get it done (we are a COMPLETELY volunteer organization) please, consider donating to @authorsabb.bsky.social today! www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Happy Friday! In order to continue fighting on behalf of all books, all authors, & all readers Authors Against Book Bans is fundraising. No donation is too small & all are tax deductible!

Given how we are bombarded by bad news, it can feel like no matter how hard we try, nothing gets better. As natural & understandable as that feeling is it is also...bullshit. Here are some of the things Authors Against Book Bans have accomplished this year...

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

Action needed from Massachusetts voters! #FreedomToRead @authorsabb.bsky.social

Update for everyone in Mass!

"A good fight begins with all of you." Read AABB member Sarah Weinman's address to the American Library Association "In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times."

One more bump of this! We'd don't have to settle for a bill that does pretty good work. We can push for gold-standard protections.

URGENT Call to Action: The Senate version of the S.2696 is moving out of committee BUT this version does not include any protections for book creators and only contains weak first amendment protections. The timing is tight: please email your senator before Wednesday, Nov. 12! More info:

Massachusetts! Take a few minutes this weekend to make sure your right to read legislation is as strong as possible.

Fantastic article in Psychology Today on how cult language drives book bans: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/free... by Steven Hassan @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com Featured in this week's Authors Against Book Bans newsletter. Authors, if you haven't already joined check out @authorsabb.bsky.social

Were you thrilled & motivated by election results on Tuesday and want in on the next one? If you're a published writer, join us! We provide resources, connect each other to collective actions, and support each other!

I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!

Read this post on the Young Adult Library Services blog for a just about perfect articulation of what libraries can create safe spaces and how book bans threaten them

A thread of more wins from yesterday all in Texas! (Though we'll also be waiting for Frank's full write up)

The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!

I’ll be there!

Join the Interfaith Alliance & Unite Against Book Bans to learn why book bans threaten religious freedom and how faith communities and library workers can come together to advocate for the right to read. Nov 5 at 5PM RSPV is free but required! support.interfaithalliance.org/a/how-faith-...

This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/

Friends in the Publishing Industry! Literary Agents of Change, the Association of American Literary Agents’ DEI committee, are hosting “In Conversation” events designed to provide opportunities for growth across industry lines. The next is Nov 5. Register here:

Happy Halloween! Read some ghost stories. Give out some candy. Meet your neighbors. Watch a scary movement. Connect! Celebrate! Relax! There's plenty of space in this fight for fun!

Local elections are happening all over Massachusetts next week, including for school boards! You know what happens when you assume, right? Do your research now to make sure you're voting for candidates that support the right to read

Reminder that if you work in publishing, you can join @pubprosabb.bsky.social

Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, had their elementary school author visit canceled when they arrived and students were waiting for them. Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book. bookriot.com/the-day-the-...

Have you adopted your upcoming election yet? If it's got a Right to Read element let us know so we can amplify!

#kidlit #booksky

Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey

A good way to do that is through this org; sisterdistrict.com

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

Hello ##BookSky Your assignment this week! Adopt an upcoming election! That could mean, volunteering for your preferred candidate, making candidate score cards for a race, or making a donation. Focus is important to effective activism & preventing burnout! Reply with your adoption so we can amplify!

I need to use the sidebar on my blog wisely, and start promoting other positive initiatives across the web in my newsletter. So I'm sharing this link to the latest @authorsabb.bsky.social email to invite anyone to link their proactive, positive initiatives in my replies mailchi.mp/b1df22db70ad...

Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social

Reposting this video from the summer because every now & then it's important to remind yourself what is at stake. Have a great weekend!

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Authors Guild, together with booksellers, publishers, and fellow advocacy organizations, has secured a decisive victory on summary judgement against the READER Act, Texas’s controversial book rating mandate!!! Learn more about the case ⚖️ here: authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...

A win in Texas! A federal judge grants a permanent injunction for the READER act which would have made it almost impossible for bookstores & schools to work together www.bookweb.org/news/federal...

This post got me thinking about how we're appealing a few book bans in Davis School District (Utah) because a public records request revealed district officials weren't entirely truthful about their process for reviewing books. Here's what's been happening: 1/

Any lawyers with FOIA experience know the answer to this one?

This is an awesome resource! For Utah, you can also submit requests online using the Open Records Portal (secured.utah.gov/ut-archives/...). It's fast and easy and also allows you to ask for fee waivers.

Sometimes to fight book bans you need to know what your officials are doing and sometimes they ah...don't want to tell you. Here's how to make a FOIA request in EVERY state docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Friends in Mass! If your Rep is on this list, get in touch and tell them to move the bill forward!

The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has put together a guide for talking to your legislators about protecting the right to read. You don't always get a face to face so you need to make the most of it when you do!

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Great stuff from some young readers in Iowa with lessons for us all! Start where you are, build your community, keep pushing on policy, & have fun! And for any grown-ups in the room, sometimes the best action you can take is supporting the action of the young people in your community

Sorry for the late notice but if you're in Alabama, there is a really important PUBLIC hearing happening tomorrow. Get there if you can!