songofanothersummer
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Hi, I'm Brittany. INFJ | Aquarius | she/her. I used to write poetry, now I just reblog writing refereneces and quotes, sometimes social justice stuff that matters to me. Nerdy stuff over on my side-blog @renegade-skywalker. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.
If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.
Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.
Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.
Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.
InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.
The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.
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On hope
night walk, franz wright// hope in the dark, rebecca solnit// ? // ? // just give me a reason, pink// shake it off, taylor swift// @ hiddengemm_ on x // @mounaks // to be made whole, ada limon// @garcavisconde // jane massey// orange juice, noah kahan// why why why, shawn mendes// ?// august, taylor swift
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it's december happy "I Heard a Bird Sing" by oliver herford season
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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"
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Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011
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