How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida. ‹

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February 12, 2025, 1:29pm If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book people who are working to fight censorship and protect access to literature across the country. Recently, AABB organized a successful letter-writing […]


Read Mosab Abu Toha’s statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza. ‹

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January 24, 2025, 12:30pm Mosab Abu Toha, the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian (who, in November 2023, was kidnapped by Israeli forces as he tried to get his young family out of Gaza) has released a statement confirming the destruction of the Edward Said Public Library—Gaza’s first English language library, which Abu Toha himself […]


Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Arkansas’s Library Laws in Win for First Amendment

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]


The Best Books of 2024, According to the New York Public Library

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused […]