#bookbans — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bookbans, aggregated by home.social.
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"It's Not Either/Or. It's Both/And. On Blink YA & Undermining Literary Choice.
Young people need access to *all kinds* of books, not just those that pass some kind of purity test." --Kelly Jensen
#YoungAdult #YABooks #Censorship #Libraries #BookBans #USPolitics
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Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law | Tennessee | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/tennessee-book-ban-alex-haley-roots -
#canadians please make sure your friends and family in #alberta see this and take action 📚 🇨🇦
Spread the word. Don’t let my country’s #Bookbans take hold here.
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#canadians please make sure your friends and family in #alberta see this and take action 📚 🇨🇦
Spread the word. Don’t let my country’s #Bookbans take hold here.
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#canadians please make sure your friends and family in #alberta see this and take action 📚 🇨🇦
Spread the word. Don’t let my country’s #Bookbans take hold here.
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#canadians please make sure your friends and family in #alberta see this and take action 📚 🇨🇦
Spread the word. Don’t let my country’s #Bookbans take hold here.
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#canadians please make sure your friends and family in #alberta see this and take action 📚 🇨🇦
Spread the word. Don’t let my country’s #Bookbans take hold here.
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
"Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know?
A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books.
That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news." -- Kelly Jensen
#USPolitics #Libraries #BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead @bookstodon
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
"Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know?
A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books.
That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news." -- Kelly Jensen
#USPolitics #Libraries #BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead @bookstodon
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
"Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know?
A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books.
That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news." -- Kelly Jensen
#USPolitics #Libraries #BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead @bookstodon
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
"Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know?
A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books.
That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news." -- Kelly Jensen
#USPolitics #Libraries #BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead @bookstodon
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I'm very disappointed that the response of the schools boards wasn't: "Fuck you. Make me."
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/28/Here-Are-The-Books-Banned-From-Alberta-School-Libraries/
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CW: U.S. Politics, Arkansas, censorship, libraries
#CallToAction: If you are in Arkansas, you have ONLY until June 7 to submit a comment defending your freedom to read; as Kelly Jensen puts it, "This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route."
Please note that these draconian regulations seek to criminalize librarians doing the job they are trained to do; this also would curtail knowledge that protects kids.
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CW: U.S. Politics, Arkansas, censorship, libraries
#CallToAction: If you are in Arkansas, you have ONLY until June 7 to submit a comment defending your freedom to read; as Kelly Jensen puts it, "This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route."
Please note that these draconian regulations seek to criminalize librarians doing the job they are trained to do; this also would curtail knowledge that protects kids.
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CW: U.S. Politics, Arkansas, censorship, libraries
#CallToAction: If you are in Arkansas, you have ONLY until June 7 to submit a comment defending your freedom to read; as Kelly Jensen puts it, "This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route."
Please note that these draconian regulations seek to criminalize librarians doing the job they are trained to do; this also would curtail knowledge that protects kids.
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CW: U.S. Politics, Arkansas, censorship, libraries
#CallToAction: If you are in Arkansas, you have ONLY until June 7 to submit a comment defending your freedom to read; as Kelly Jensen puts it, "This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route."
Please note that these draconian regulations seek to criminalize librarians doing the job they are trained to do; this also would curtail knowledge that protects kids.
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CW: U.S. Politics, Arkansas, censorship, libraries
#CallToAction: If you are in Arkansas, you have ONLY until June 7 to submit a comment defending your freedom to read; as Kelly Jensen puts it, "This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route."
Please note that these draconian regulations seek to criminalize librarians doing the job they are trained to do; this also would curtail knowledge that protects kids.
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New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools
“The content of these books that are disappearing speaks volumes about both the stories, identities, and facts that are being suppressed, and about the political and cultural attack on public education across the U.S.,” the report states.
The post New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/new-pen-america-report-finds-nonfiction-increasingly-targeted-by-book-banners-in-u-s-schools/ -
New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools
“The content of these books that are disappearing speaks volumes about both the stories, identities, and facts that are being suppressed, and about the political and cultural attack on public education across the U.S.,” the report states.
The post New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/new-pen-america-report-finds-nonfiction-increasingly-targeted-by-book-banners-in-u-s-schools/ -
New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools
“The content of these books that are disappearing speaks volumes about both the stories, identities, and facts that are being suppressed, and about the political and cultural attack on public education across the U.S.,” the report states.
The post New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/new-pen-america-report-finds-nonfiction-increasingly-targeted-by-book-banners-in-u-s-schools/ -
New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools
“The content of these books that are disappearing speaks volumes about both the stories, identities, and facts that are being suppressed, and about the political and cultural attack on public education across the U.S.,” the report states.
The post New PEN America Report Finds Nonfiction Increasingly Targeted by Book Banners in U.S. Schools appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/new-pen-america-report-finds-nonfiction-increasingly-targeted-by-book-banners-in-u-s-schools/ -
If America is going to ban a book it should be the Bible.
No other book in history has been used to perpetuate racism, misogyny, genocide, war and other atrocities. For centuries weak men have excused their crimes using scripture and pointed to the Bible when exercising their hatred towards others.
In modern America the same still holds true.
#books #Bookbans #bible #republicans #MAGA #trump #iran #war #racism #misogyny #middleeast #epstein #EpsteinFiles #news #worldnews #Israel
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ALA’s “most challenged books” 2025
1. “Sold” by Patricia McCormick
2. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
3. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe
4. “Empire of Storms” by Sarah J. Maas
5. (tie) “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
5. (tie) “Tricks” by Ellen Hopkins
7. “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas
8. (tie) “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess
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‘reading as #resistance’. Aauthoritarians will not dictate what we consume.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/book-bans-schools -
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)
We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.
.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.
#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)
We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.
.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.
#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)
We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.
.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.
#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)
We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.
.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.
#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana (commonly paraphrased as, "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it)
We have seen what's happening today in the U.S. (and the U.K, and and and) happen before. And we saw where it led.
.We are far too close to being there again. We must end this now.
#OTD #MagnusHirshfeldLibrary #BookBurning #BookBans #History #Fascism
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A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
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A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
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A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
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A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
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A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
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"Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel!
Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream!
Watch and share now"
#Libraries #Librarians #USPolitics #BookBans #Censorship #PBS #FundPBS
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"Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel!
Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream!
Watch and share now"
#Libraries #Librarians #USPolitics #BookBans #Censorship #PBS #FundPBS
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"Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel!
Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream!
Watch and share now"
#Libraries #Librarians #USPolitics #BookBans #Censorship #PBS #FundPBS
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"Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel!
Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream!
Watch and share now"
#Libraries #Librarians #USPolitics #BookBans #Censorship #PBS #FundPBS
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"Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel!
Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream!
Watch and share now"
#Libraries #Librarians #USPolitics #BookBans #Censorship #PBS #FundPBS
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"For decades, book challenges were typically brought by individual parents or local community members, often focused on a single title in a single district and resolved within a single school system, according to reporting and historical analyses of past challenges. Now, they are increasingly driven by organized groups and public officials, operating across districts and, in some cases, across state lines."
~ Intellectualist
#BookBans #ibraries #censorship #schools
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/inside-the-far-rights-campaign-to
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
Via Kelly Jensen: "Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation.
That, plus this week's censorship news:"
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
Via Kelly Jensen: "Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation.
That, plus this week's censorship news:"
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
Via Kelly Jensen: "Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation.
That, plus this week's censorship news:"
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
Via Kelly Jensen: "Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation.
That, plus this week's censorship news:"
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CW: U.S. Politics, libraries, book bans
Via Kelly Jensen: "Get to know FIVE librarians running for state political office across the United States. Here's who they are, what they're running for, why they're running, and why they think librarians make for *excellent* representation.
That, plus this week's censorship news:"
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PEN America Honors Tennessee Library Advocates for Defending the Freedom to Read
“The Rutherford County Library Alliance is an important reminder that power lives in our communities, with the courage of individuals who refuse to be silenced,” said Summer Lopez PEN America co-CEO.” Also this week, PEN International released its 2026 International Case List, highlighting writers around the world targeted for their work.
The post PEN America Honors Tennessee Library Advocates for Defending the Freedom to Read appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/pen-america-honors-tennessee-library-advocates-for-defending-the-freedom-to-read/#BookBans #FreedomtoRead #InternationalCaseList2026 #Libraries #PENInternational
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6,588 books were pulled from libraries last year—the highest since 1990. The strategy is volume: drown librarians in paperwork. But the community is fighting back.
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6,588 books were pulled from libraries last year—the highest since 1990. The strategy is volume: drown librarians in paperwork. But the community is fighting back.