For hundreds (thousands) of years, reading and writing was considered too radical and complex for the masses. Slaves were prohibited from both. Books are regularly banned and burned. Why? Because of their power to inform, educate, change minds, galvanise, organise, overthrow. Let’s go!
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Samira Ahmed
Continue to be baffled by authors who don't think books are political. Like, do you even know...books?? Or, the history of reading? Reading is political, too, and the choices you make about what you read or write are not made in a vacuum.
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