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We are proud to support the @uabookbans.bsky.social Book Résumé Database, which has been a crucial resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and community members for one year this month. Defend the freedom to read with resources supporting 560+ titles here bit.ly/BookResumes #UniteAgainstBookBans

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We are proud to support the @uabookbans.bsky.social Book Résumé Database, which has been a crucial resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and community members for one year this month. Defend the freedom to read with resources supporting 560+ titles here: bit.ly/BookResumes #BooksBelong

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We are proud to support the @uabookbans.bsky.social Book Résumé Database, which has been a crucial resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and community members for the last year. Defend the freedom to read with resources supporting 560+ titles here: bit.ly/BookResumes #UniteAgainstBookBans

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🎂 It's been one year since the launch of the #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés! Check out the impact of the first year and share or bring along a book résumé to your next school or library board meeting to help defend these titles from censorship: bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org

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📅 Check out our partner @aapf.bsky.social's 2025 Liberation Calendar for practices, opportunities for reflection, and calls to action to defend the freedom to read and learn this Black History Month: uniteagainstbookbans.org/black-histor... #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Books change lives. Here are excellent resources from @uabookbans.bsky.social. The freedom to read is an essential part of a healthy democracy. #UniteAgainstBookBans.

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Our partner @interfaithalliance.org ‬‬rallies faith groups to #UniteAgainstBookBans: "The fact is that the majority of religious people do not support book bans & understand it as a threat..to religious freedom..Faith groups must fight back against book bans everywhere" bookriot.com/religious-fr...

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I wouldn't be the reader, or writer, I am today, without a space as welcoming and world-expanding as @harriscountypl.bsky.social in my life. All the hearts to the librarians and staff at all the libraries, today and always. @authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

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Dear Libraries, I love you more than I can say! Thank you for helping me read more books than I could possibly ever afford to buy ♥ Thank you for everything you provide to your communities! You are such a powerful resource and a gift ♥@authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

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We are live! Help us raise money for @uabookbans.bsky.social by supporting @jenniewoodndid.bsky.social 's "A Boy Like Me"! Zoop.gg/c/aboylikeme

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TONIGHT! Join our partner @aapf.bsky.social for the free virtual premiere of The Story of Us - The Role of the Artist in the Age of Censorship, a conversation on storytelling’s critical role in strengthening our democracy. #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Books are lifesaving. Research shows that when schools offer inclusive reading materials, LGBTQ+ students report feeling safer and better mental health outcomes. When provided with a wide variety of books, youth are Empowered by Reading: uniteagainstbookbans.org#white-paper #UniteAgainstBookBans

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“The great thing about stories, you don’t have to agree with them to understand them. There are stories in this anthology that make me uncomfortable … but, in the understanding, I find empathy sneaks in and we can see people’s true humanity.” www.nbc4i.com/news/politic... #UniteAgainstBookBans

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WNDB's Statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Dismissing Book Ban Complaints (🧵 1/4)

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🎬 Last week, “The Librarians” had its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival! Read more about the big day, film updates, & what you can do to #UniteAgainstBookBans in @technolibrary.bsky.social’s UABB blog post: uniteagainstbookbans.org/book-banning... @librarianjones.com @becalzada.bsky.social

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If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to our democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

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“A chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools, which flourished in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ordinary heroes who fight them on the local level.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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📷 #UniteAgainstBookBans @ indie bookstores today by taking part in @authorsabb.bsky.social's #ReadFreely activation! Post a photo of you w/a book at a local indie bookstore/wherever you get your books & share how the book celebrates all the ways reading inspires, educates, changes, & challenges us.

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Policy Corps #UniteAgainstBookBans cadre members @aaslpres.bsky.social & @technolibrary.bsky.social will be featured @ the Sundance premiere of The Librarians! “It takes all of us—educators..community members &elected officials..showing up to defend the freedom to read” www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

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"they're on this board to represent everyone− not just a handful of people." www.dnj.com/story/news/2... Readers deserve access to a variety of viewpoints &ideas so they can have the freedom to choose what to read. Book bans threaten that variety. #UniteAgainstBookBans at: uniteagainstbookbans.org

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📚 Heading to a board meeting to defend the freedom to read? Bring along some #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés to inform decision makers and the public of a book's significance and educational value, and why it should be kept on library shelves: bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org

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As legislative sessions around the country begin, we support and uphold the right for each family to select what reading is appropriate for their own family.

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🎉 Invader Comics & @jenniewoodndid.bsky.social are releasing a special edition of A Boy Like Me! Jennie is donating 100% of their profits to #UniteAgainstBookBans. A big thank you to Jennie and @invadercomics.bsky.social for supporting the right to read! More on the campaign: zoop.gg/c/aboylikeme

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Our partner NCTE encourages you to #UniteAgainstBookBans and stand up for students and educators by: ✅ Drawing from NCTE's position statements on censorship ✅ Reporting cases of censorship ✅ Consulting the Book Rationale Database More on the UABB blog ➡️ uniteagainstbookbans.org/advocating-f...

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Libraries are some of our greatest institutions and most valuable resources. They need our support. This page from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is full of resources and information for everyone who knows that we must #UniteAgainstBookBans.

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"..talk to your own children about not reading that book, but don't remove it from students who may have experienced similar traumas, or from students who may encounter people in their lifetimes that have experienced similar traumas. Let them learn." www.upr.org/utah-news/20... #UniteAgainstBookBans

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No community is immune from censorship. That's why we ALL must #UniteAgainstBookBans. You have the tools to make a difference. Need a plan to take action? Use our toolkit to organize your community: uniteagainstbookbans.org/toolkit/

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"Making schools & school materials inclusive of LGBTQ+ students isn’t just a good thing to do; it can provide a life-saving sense of belonging for young people." NEW research from @trevorproject.bsky.social on the harms of book bans & curriculum censorship: uniteagainstbookbans.org/lgbtq_book_b...

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🎸"We can fight censorship together. We have incredible music wherever we go, as we do. & together, we're going to win." @samhelmick.bsky.social Big thanks to @lernerbooks.bsky.social for your support & rallying people to #UniteAgainstBookBans through music! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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📣 We are excited to share the 🎥 we've been a part of for 3 years, The Librarians, premieres at Sundance Film Festival in Jan!! Peabody Award winning director, Kim Snyder highlights the wave of book bans & the libs under siege defending Intellectual Freedom festival.sundance.org/program/film...

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Free people can choose what they read but they can't choose what their community reads. "When it's one person or a few people trying to say what's best for everyone, that's where we draw a line" — @becalzada.bsky.social Policy Corps #UniteAgainstBookBans cadre member www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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People should be free to make their OWN decisions about what to read. “Any time you say you want a book removed from a public library or...school, you are saying ‘I don’t approve of this, & I don’t want my family to have it; therefore, no one should have it.'" www.easternprogress.com/online_featu...

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This #GivingTuesday, consider helping #UniteAgainstBookBans halt censorship in public & school libraries, empower individuals to fight censorship, & preserve our #FreedomToRead. Our goal is to get $5 for each unique title targeted for censorship in 2024. Give now—join the fight: bit.ly/DonateToUABB

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Let us set your reading playlist with #BandsfortheBanned! Join us this Thursday at First Avenue's 7th Street Entry to hear from leaders in the fight for the #FreedomToRead and to jam with Dad Bod, WBS (Thomas Abban & L.A. Buckner), Chutes, and Yonder. first-avenue.com/event/2024-1...

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A small group of parents should NOT dictate what books other people's children can read. ❤️ Help #UniteAgainstBookBans defend your right to guide your own children's reading. From now — #GivingTuesday, our goal is to get $5 for each unique title targeted for censorship this year: bit.ly/DonateToUABB

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📣 Readers, library lovers, and advocates! Looking for ways you can #UniteAgainstBookBans? Whether you have 5 minutes or all day, take at least ONE action to protect your right to read freely. Learn more at: UniteAgainstBookBans.org.

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Good news! 💚 💗♫ #Wicked & hundreds of other titles are available as #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés: free resources that detail a book's significance & educational value & help teachers, librarians, parents & community advocates keep books on library shelves. bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org

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It was an honor to get an award from @ncac.bsky.social for speaking out against book bans. It was even more special to have it given to me by @judyblume.bsky.social -who taught me all I have ever needed to know about how to fight book bans with grit and grace. 🩷📚😮

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Last month, more than 175 events took place nationwide on October 19 for the first-ever #FreedomToRead Day of Action—a massive and inspiring outpouring of support for this fundamental right! Check out the highlights on the #UniteAgainstBookBans blog ➡️ uniteagainstbookbans.org/10-19_event_...

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"Book bans are antithetical to free speech and free thought. They are antidemocratic, antiscience & antievidence. Reading this editorial with no one looking over your shoulder is your fundamental right. Our children deserve the same." www.scientificamerican.com/article/book... #UniteAgainstBookBans

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If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

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