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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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Thanks to everyone who helped pack ULKs at last night's Prison Banned Books Week Event! This helps us cut costs and get more newsletters out faster.
Lots of information shared, good conversations had and connections made.
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Thanks to everyone who helped pack ULKs at last night's Prison Banned Books Week Event! This helps us cut costs and get more newsletters out faster.
Lots of information shared, good conversations had and connections made.
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If you're concerned about #censorship, mark your calendar for two special weeks in October:
* Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025
* Prison Banned Books Week, October 19-25, 2025.
Wondering why there is a week focused exclusively on books banned in prisons? Book Riot just published an article on censorship in prisons:
https://bookriot.com/books-to-prisoners-2025/ -
It's #PrisonBannedBooksWeek and we're inviting you to learn more about the oversized role that the US's oversized prison system plays in censoring and restricting book access—particularly for low income folks, people of color, queers, and others with criminalized identities.
📕 If you're on Facebook or Instagram, follow our friends at Asheville Prison Books (@avlprisonbooks) and Tranzmission Prison Project (@tranzmissionprisonproject), who are bringing an abolitionist lens to their work on the front lines of prison book access all year long! (Hopefully they'll join Mastodon soon 🥺)
📙 Buy a book from our co-op's Asheville Prison Books wishlist at https://firestorm.coop/ashevilleprisonbooks and an anonymous donor will match your purchase with funds for highly requested titles like legal dictionaries.
📗 Take action by demanding that Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller drop a new rule prohibiting ALL used books at the detention center! Read the top post on @avlprisonbooks's Instagram page for details and a simple call-in script. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAGlicNsCeU/
📘 Check out the article a member of our team wrote for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance at https://sibaweb.com/blogpost/1157249/504370/Banned-Books-Week-Firestorm-Books-Prison-Books-Program about the big impact indies can have when they support the prison book movement.
#PrisonBooks #BannedBooks #BooksNotBans #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
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We serve incarcerated readers in 35 US states. We don't send books to people in Wisconsin, because people there have long been served by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (WBTP).
Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections has banned WBTP from sending books to people in their custody. With ironic timing, they announced this just a few weeks before Prison Banned Books Week!
Learn more at https://www.wisconsinbookstoprisoners.org/ (Scroll down to "News & Events")
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Many people have heard of Banned Books Week, but did you know that
there's also a Prison Banned Books Week? It is taking place
right now (September 15-21, 2024). Learn more at https://prisonbannedbooksweek.orgOverlapping Prison Banned Books Week is a matching grant opportunity. A generous foundation has offered a $1,000 match for all purchases from our Politics and Prose wishlist — https://www.politics-prose.com/wishlist/960 — or Bookshop.org wishlist — https://bookshop.org/wishlists/a641ac4a61f8bc1f8a0da919f50c47ed25c4abfa