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American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE)

@abfefreeexpression.bsky.social

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ABFE is the free expression initiative of the American Booksellers Association.

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American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

ABFE and stands with the Educational Bookshop, which was raided by Israeli police on Sunday, and its owners, booksellers Ahmad and Mahmoud Muna, who are currently under house arrest.

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American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

ABA and ABFE are proud to join 50+ organizations in signing a joint letter expressing concern that the executive order of January 20, 2025, targeting transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender nonconforming people, which could lead to viewpoint-based censorship of literature.

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American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This week, Laney Hawes from the @txfreedomread.bsky.social came on the BookED podcast is back to talk about what lawmakers are cooking up in Texas to attack the freedom to read in the 2025 legislative session. Spoiler: it doesn’t look good. sites.libsyn.com/109160/site/...

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American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Book bans are not a hoax. Don’t get distracted by rhetoric: censorship is rampant, books by LGBTQ+ people and people of color are being targeted, and we don’t have to stop calling out book bans when we see them. Period. #ReadingIsResistance #IReadBannedBooks

"Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is the truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party." — George Orwell, "1984" (banned book)

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