Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
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https://blackstonebookstore.com/
https://sourceofknowledgebookstore.com/store/ols/products/well-read-black-girl-finding-our-stories-discovering-ourselves-hardcover
This place is brand new:
https://www.findyournichemke.com/about-us
1937 N MLK dr
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212
I would look, but I've ditched Amazon since Bezos appeared to become a fascist enabler...
Rome is burning and we're reading comics.
They enjoy hurting and destroying.
What in the fuck is going on there, USA?!
Still atrocious what they’re doing, but now I at least understand a bit more.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-administration-book-ban-092458809.html
Incel level KKK hires.
DOD is now just a private, knuckle-dragging militia.
Each of whom think they are “alpha males”.
Scrape me off the floor when my laughing fit ends, OK?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#stopbookbans
Your oppression is their profession
MY MIND how racist America is
It’s like saying “Germany” isn’t racist - while not every German is racist, and there are even anti-racist movements, there is still too much racism here.
I must admit I've never read any of your work, until now. Which book(s) do you recommend starting with?
Please never stop… please 🙏
#booksky
#MOMsky
https://www.powells.com/book/well-read-black-girl-9780525619772
It’s a huge source of books for military affiliated people.
America would have little culture if not for the immense contributions from Black people.
Thank goodness for downtown areas of my neighborhood.
Will they ban podcasts and audiobooks too? Where will the erasure end? The ROTW needs to stand with US democracy now!
✌️❤️🙏
that was all I meant ✌️
Representation is so important.
MAGAts draw us down into their bottomless pit of ignorance.
It's not a sad southern/midwest library or sad southern/midwest school.
Will employees go to your house and check?
https://www.dodea.edu/#:~:text=DoDEA%20operates%20161%20schools%20in,Sheet%20DoDEA%20by%20the%20Numbers
https://dodea.widen.net/s/bhcljprrd9/dodea-fact-sheet-2023
Harlem Rhapsody
Or
Pride and Protest
Which to start with?
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/well-read-black-girl-finding-our-stories-discovering-ourselves_glory-edim/18599685/#isbn=0525619771
they succeeded - I most of us have been hammered in tangible ways
they want to break us, they want us discouraged and to cow to their power
... never
they may knock us down, but I will never yield. I know you won't either.
💪sister💙
It is to BAN lawmakers from banning any activities that are not proven to harm others, including #bookbans.
Please read and comment on our petition for a NEW constitutional amendment in our bio.
Repost
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/02/ala-aasl-decry-us-defense-department-censorship-schools-and-libraries-military
You're on the correct side of history.
Shop Independent bookstores
https://wapo.st/4k9dyXe
Get a safety place set up after school libraries begin now.
(yes, I know why, my point is it is nowhere NEAR their prerogative)
Guess I know what I'm picking up next. 'Banned by fascists' is a GLORIOUS recommendation👍
“I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa. There are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
-Marcus Garvey
What book list was this?
It sounds super interesting so I am going to follow up & read.
But could you not use “I’m
Super hurt by this” when dealing w/dod or other govt agencies? Despite wanting to speak in pejorative, trumps🌍 doesn’t accept female diminutive as authority.
https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/DoD-Education-Activities-(DoDEA)?serv=120#:~:text=DoDEA%20currently%20operates%20161%20schools,by%20more%20than%2014%2C000%20educators.
Resist
I will buy tonight.
(Posting as a screenshot because this account has disabled quote posts.)
Highlighting, creating push back against books being added to the ban list and eventually overturning the bans should be the goal.
Defeating this is a multi pronged strategy, and it won't be quick, but will be worth it.
Just bought Children of Blood and Bone.
Will keep reading Black authors! They can’t stop me.
Sending you love.
the department of defense as we knew it.
Morgan, I am so sorry for what this regime is doing and the ways it is impacting you personally and professionally.
#AbolishTrumpRegime
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Women, Race & Class" by Angela Davis
"Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde
"Eloquent Rage" by Brittney Cooper
"Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall
#AbolishTrumpRegime