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Friends!
Are you feeling hopeless in the face of the oncoming MAGA-pocalypse? Want to do something fast, easy, and free that will make a difference?
If you're in Michigan, keep reading! If you're not, signal boost this to your Mitten State Mutuals!
Michiganders, it's time to contact your state reps and tell them to vote YES on HB 6034 and HB 6035. Together, these two bills comprise the Freedom to Read Act and they severely limit the ability of assholes to ban books in the state of Michigan.
Want to read the bills for yourself? Click here:
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Search/ExecuteSearch?sessions=2023-2024&docTypes=House%20Bill,Senate%20Bill&contentFullText=%22freedom%20to%20read%22
Tl;dr? Here's an article and video summarizing the Act from CBS News:
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#libraries#books#books are political#booktok#bookblr#signal boost#politics#michigan#hope#important#let's fucking go
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#books are political#reading#literature#ukraine#russian literature#fuck russian literature#it's shit
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#throne of glass#sarah j maas#bookblr#bookish art#aelin galathynius#celaena sardothien#BOOKS ARE POLITICAL#my art
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Booktook imploding
I've just seen all the “booktook is not political” drama. I'm letting out an evil laugh as I write this. I don't care if it sounds arrogant, but I WARNED YOU. I spent over a year on that damn app warning about the consequences of the growing anti-intellectualism in the literary community. Who knew that inducing an entire community to turn off their brains 24/7 on the excuse of “let people enjoy things” and attack anyone who raises any questions would result in a severe decline in reading and interpretation skills. This was supposed to be a place that encouraged people to acquire reading habits, expand their horizons and have fun while doing it. Instead we have a place full of alienated people, complaining that books have too many words in a constant battle of egos over who reads more without actually reading. The cherry on the cake is that books are not political, according to certain booktook influencers who walk around with a stanley cup in one hand and an Amazon shipment in the other, saying this while a wave of books are censored in various states.
While I was most active on tiktok, I not only pointed out how people were increasingly being misled into lacking critical thinking skills, but how the “it's not that deep” narrative was being used as a pipeline by the far right. For those who are more attentive and know how conservatives tend to interpret works like BioShock or songs by bands like Rage Against the Machine. None of this is new; emptying works of their social issues is an old tactic. I had hoped that the booktook, being a place mostly for young people, I thought we had already evolved as a society so we wouldn't fall down a rabbit hole.
In any case, my soul has been washed clean by these events. Obviously I'm not happy about the situation, but knowing that after all this time I've been called crazy, elitist, a conspiracist, etc., it's extremely validating and frustrating to see that I was right but that I wasted my breath in vain.
literally my reaction
#anti booktok#bookblr#book discourse#booktook#books are political#books#books & libraries#books and reading
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wanna know how not to die now that the world’s going to hell in a hand basket? wondering what to read? who to listen to? how to help within your potentially extreme limitations? fearful as a marginalized person, or someone looking to help those communities? BOOM. Menagerie got you covered
Check out their Project 2025 Survival Guide to start regaining hope and formulating an actual plan immediately. it’s also a really great community over there if you’re looking for a wholesome, inclusive scene to join
#project 2025#leftist#leftism#survival guide#small creator#small youtuber#disabled creator#queer creator#queer creatives#fuck trump#trump is a threat to democracy#direct action#actionable advice#trans community#trans rights#queer liberation#activism#books are political#book banning#tariffs#mutual aid#hope#citizenship#birth control#abortion rights#Youtube
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Are you looking for a book packed with trans rage and gay kissing? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Looking for something moody, spooky, and unapologetically political? 🥀🦇
I've pledged 100% of Bleeding Mars's sales this month to the Trevor Project, and I'm looking for more indie authors to make charity pledges too!
You can learn more about my project to create a searchable list of authors pledging a % of sales at my website: https://asherquazar.com/bap
If you know any indies who might like to participate, please share this with them!
#trevor project#books are political#books#vampire books#vampires#gay vampires#trans author#gay books#queer books#spooky books
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All the "I would have also dated Dorian Gray knowing how morally bankrupted he is. Have you seen him?" posts annoyed me a little but I thought they were just jokes and didn’t think much of them...But were they really? With the amount of people on the internet arguing how "books are not political" and debating how characters like Batman would be republican I am not so sure anymore.
#the picture of dorian gray#dorian gray#books are political#batman#do people actually get what they read#Basil is a democrat who won't cut off his republican family and friends#Dorian is republican who doesn't know what tariff is but says he voted for the orange man “for the economy”#Henry doesn't vote but publically supports melania's sub
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Every time someone has the need to say books are not political a little part of me dies. If there's something that's political, it's books. There's a reason they get banned when a far right-wing government takes place. Please, use your brain.
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So in light of recent events in the US, does anyone have any quotes from fantasy books with female leads that are tattoo-able?
Like as powerful as “To whatever end, you do not yield” is, I’d rather pick a phrase that’s by an author that isn’t so problematic/controversial.
Maybe “IGNITE” (Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi) would work but I’d like more options
#booklr#bookish#books#bookworm#booknerd#book nerd#books are political#I’m embarrassed and enraged#feminine rage#bibliophile#book recommendations#romance novels#dystopian ya
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BOOKS ARE POLITICAL
ART IS POLITICAL
Fuck trump and everyone who supports him.
Unfollow me I don’t care
#books are political#art is political#fuck trump#fuck anyone who voted for him#go whine somewhere else
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So, Ben is going through some things these days.
#united healthcare#Podcasts#politics#brian thompson#democrats#republicans#donald trump#lol#books#maga#trans#nyc#new york
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#right wing bullshit#lgbtq#lgbtq community#lgbt pride#sapphic#nonbinary lesbian#gay girls#lesbian#nonbinary#lgbtqia#right wing terrorism#right wing extremism#right wing politics#right wing women#conservatives#conservatism#queer#spiderman#spiderman comics#spiderman fanart#spidey#peter parker#mary jane watson#spidypool#comic books#comics#comic art#original comic#fan comic#web comic
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I'm seeing very few people talk about this, but Project 2025 threatens to get rid of the Department of Education. This would allow increased parental control into what's being taught in the classroom, and will only increase book bans. Please, if you know a child in your life, get a book into their hands. Give them banned books. Give them books about any topic being taken out of schools. Take them to the library. Pirate ebooks for them. Donate your own books. Don't let their education be taken away.
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Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.
The lifeline in question is called Bookshop.
In simple terms, it’s a super clean, user-friendly online bookstore whose raison d’être is supporting independent bookstores — not simply with exposure or resources (though that’s certainly a factor), but with cold hard cash...
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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊
#project 2025#us politics#censorship#fascism#trans fiction#trans literature#transfem#booklr#literature#books#transfeminism#election 2024
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