#banned-books-week — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #banned-books-week, aggregated by home.social.
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"Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."--Kelly Jensen
#BannedBooksWeek #BookBans #Libraries #Reading #FreedomToRead
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Banned Books Week took place October 5-11, 2025. Thank you to everyone who observed it with us.
Now, October 19-25, 2025, we're observing PRISON Banned Books Week. This week shines a spotlight on #censorship in #prisons.
Here's an article about a prison that rejected a copy of the book "America Let Me In":
Want to know more about censorship in prisons? BookRiot published this summary:
https://bookriot.com/reading-and-resources-for-prison-banned-books-week/
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Das Banned Books Network #Münster plant fürs Wintersemester einige #Veranstaltungen, und es gibt jetzt einen #Leseclub:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Philologie/aktuelles/archiv/2025/banned_books_veranstaltungen.html
#BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek #BBNM -
Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community
Read free in Journal of Women's History at Project MUSE
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Illustration that reads Let Freedom Read Day. Artwork (c) American Library Association.
The freedom to read is under attack, let’s do something about it!
On October 11, 2025 we’re asking everyone to take at least one action to help defend books from #censorship to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, booksellers who make them available how you’re taking action on social media by using the hashtags #LetFreedomReadDay
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Via the Zinn Education Project:
"Among countless banned & challenged books is "Fry Bread" by Kevin Noble Maillard.
In support of the #TeachTruth campaign & to raise awareness about the dangers of censorship, every Lush store has a display about the ban."
#BookBans #FreedomToRead
#LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeekhttps://socialjusticebooks.org/banned-books-display-in-lush-stores/
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It's the last day of Banned Books Week, and you can make prisoners' lives just a bit better by participating in the "Books to prisoners" program. (Not in the list, but actually participating: Left Bank Books in downtown Seattle)
ETA: you can also help all year round! Visit https://bookstoprisoners.net/ to learn more.
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#BannedBooksWeek is wrapping up, but you've still got time to grab one of these awesome-possum "Trash Fascism, Not Books" shirts! https://www.bonfire.com/store/firestorm
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My task list is so long I forgot to post about Banned Book Week, which ends tomorrow. Ugh.
But the battle for information does not end tomorrow. Here are some links. Read banned books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
https://bookshop.org/lists/banned-and-challenged-books-updated-2025
#BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek #ReadBannedBooks #Books #Reading #Fascism
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"Does censorship work? Never completely," writes Norma Klein, a much-banned children's author, in The Lion and the Unicorn, way back in 1986
Her thoughts "On Being a Banned Writer" are free to read on Project MUSE thru 31 Oct
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Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community
Read free in Journal of Women's History at Project MUSE
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CW: U.S. Politics, local elections
Via Kelly Jensen: This guide has everything you could want to know on how to research candidates and build a plan around issues that don't get the same kind of news coverage or screen time that major elections do.
And yet, these impact your every day life.
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CW: U.S. Politics, local elections
Via Kelly Jensen: How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.
Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.
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This is sad. According to @nysfocus, the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, which is New York's biggest #ICE detention center, has banned all #book deliveries. Rejected books have included an illustrated Spanish-English dictionary and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work”.
Advocates are arguing that the book ban "violates detainees’ First Amendment rights".
https://nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/batavia-buffalo-detention-center-ice-book-ban
#Batavia #NewYork #bookstodon #BannedBooksWeek #NewYorkCivilLibertiesUnion
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Books are still being banned, but most remain on shelves thanks to heroes who refuse to bow to censorship. Librarians, teachers, students, and readers everywhere are keeping the flame of free expression alive. Stand with them. Speak out. #BannedBooksWeek #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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In the latest issue of German Studies Review, Sébastien Tremblay reviews a new archival exploration of Magnus Hirschfeld's "scattered library" — a book he calls "a remarkable accomplishment" that "falls short"
Free thru 31 Oct via Project MUSE
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Come to Houghton if you want the forbidden knowledge. #BannedBooksWeek
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Did you know? The melting point of data is also #Fahrenheit451. 🔥 Fight censorship in all forms this #BannedBooksWeek, and help ensure public access to public data remains a public good.
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In a 2007 vintage Library Trends article, Nikola von Merveldt analyzes approaches by two libraries dedicated to preserving cultural memory in the wake of Nazi book burnings
Read "Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire" free thru 31 October
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From the 2016 Social Research special issue "The Fear of Art" gallerist Ethan Cohen interviews dissident artist Ai Weiwei
Read A Conversation with Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen for free via Project MUSE thru 31 October
You can watch this interview too! View it on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/socres-ai-wei-wei.
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#Censorship #BAnnedBooksWeek #Movie #writers #libraries #Schools
Monday, the DC area chapter of the Authors Guild invited members to attend a showing of Banned Together. I feel enough stress for other reasons that I was reluctant to throw a scary, depressing documentary into my mix. Still, I needed to go, and to go despite being already tired and reluctant to take on the night driving.
It was well worth the trip. The story of the censorship campaign, funded by dark money, was disheartening. The story of the high school students, and parents and teachers and librarians, fighting and winning was heart-warming. The testimony about threats and intimidation chilled me. But the movie was crafted with enough uplift to make me happy I went, willing to watch it again on Kanopy with my sweetheart, if she chooses. (Our county library subscribes.)
After the show, we enjoyed a Q&A session with a producer and a researcher.
Thanks, Bethesda Landmark Cinema; thanks, Kanopy for co-sponsoring the production; and thanks, DC AG Ambassadors, for the invitation. -
Data rescue efforts keep us from sliding into #1984. ⚓ Celebrate #BannedBooksWeek with us and join the efforts. Volunteer with the DRP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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