“School boards have gotten disoriented, lost their bearings, and have started listening to a handful of really loud voices instead of putting learners first,” author Ashley Hope Pérez tells Ali Velshi. #VelshiBannedBookClub #IStandWithTheBanned

One parent’s complaint about Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” caused Pinellas County Schools to remove the book from the shelves of its high schools this year. Then students spoke up. Three months later, the #Florida school district reinstated the book. youthtoday.org/2023/05/u-s-bo… #FreeTheBooks

"Young people do not want sanitized narratives. They want opportunities to talk about difficult issues and to imagine lives that are different than their own," says author Ashley Hope Pérez. n.pr/3MW5oTm

If we can raise enough funds, we'll take the Banned Bookmobile on tour around the country for months, following DeSantis to his campaign stops across the country, giving out banned books, hosting events with authors and advocates. Chip in here! act.moveon.org/donate/banned-…

Books will include: The 1619 Project by Ida Bae Wells The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman Looking for Alaska by 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson Garçon And more! Will you help us fund this effort? act.moveon.org/donate/banned-…

HOW TO FIGHT BOOK BANS! Next Saturday 6.24 at #ALAAC23, be sure to attend this featured panel presented by We Need Diverse Books and American Library Association. This is a CALL TO ACTION moderated by Ellen 오 Oh and with Jerry Craft, Eliot Schrefer 🌈, Samira Ahmed updates, Ashley Hope Pérez, and Kyle Lukoff.

📚NEW📚 Across the country, extremist groups are pushing book bans in schools and libraries. PEN America, with parents and authors, is suing to stop them. PEN’s Nadine Farid Johnson and author Ashley Hope Pérez join us to discuss. #BannedBooks open.spotify.com/episode/558FIC…

Thank you to our brave parents, students, and @penamerica, Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚, @SarahBrannen, George M Johnson Garçon, Kyle Lukoff, Ashley Hope Pérez for allowing us to represent you w/Ballard Spahr LLP 3/4 pen.org/press-release/…

First thing I have wanted to share in a long time—rolling on the floor over this one. They nailed all the bonkers rhetoric!

This talk--everything I can say about book banning and readers' rights in an hour--is TODAY! Folks far from Columbus can tune in virtually (in real time). PEN America TXFReadomFighters Florida Freedom to Read Project ALA OIF #BannedBooksWeek

Having this banned author anthology in the works is getting me through this #BannedBooksWeek -- THANK YOU to our amazing team of contributors, agents, and publishing professionals!

This @osuehe podcast on the cost of book banning may be my favorite yet--incredible perspective on why "difficult" books are essential resources: podbean.com/ep/pb-jvt4t-14… After so much superficial treatment of banned books related to #bannedbooksweek, it's good to see this depth.

Thank you to Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) for putting this horrid practice by Scholastic book fairs on my radar, and to all who advocated fiercely for redress.

Want to hear everything I have to say about banned books? Here it is, thanks to an excellent student interview. Watch, share it around, and check out his many other interviews with authors and activists. youtube.com/watch?v=_R38EX… PEN America TXFReadomFighters Banned Books Week

Another great interview about book bans by student Christopher Lau! Give his channel some love.

NPQ spoke to two writers of #bannedbooks about the work they’re doing to defend free speech: bit.ly/3SDCI54 Alison Stine Ashley Hope Pérez julia scheeres #freespeech

John Oliver made my week with a deep dive into the BS of book banning--PREACH!

Cover reveal! Incredibly proud to have edited BANNED TOGETHER, including pieces by Kyle Lukoff, @ellenhopkinsauthor, MariNaomi (they/them), Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn (only kind of around), Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰, Elana K. Arnold, Brendan Kiely, isabelquintero, Padma Venkatraman #TheBridgeHome #BornBehindBars, Debbie Fong 🎏 ANYC O22, Maia Kobabe, and more! bookriot.com/banned-togethe…