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

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 in the fight against book bans, from Books & Books owner and WDA national steering committee member Mitchell Kaplan. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/res...

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

🗓️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: https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/writers-for-democratic-action-presents-the-democracy-book-club-tracie-d-hall-rachel-dewoskin/

🗓️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: https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/writers-for-democratic-action-presents-the-democracy-book-club-tracie-d-hall-rachel-dewoskin/

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

Yay, Writers for Democratic Action is here!

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. 📚