Banned Books Week is here!
This week, we’re celebrating the books that have been questioned, challenged, and removed, and the people who continue to defend our right to read them.
Pick up a banned book. Share a story. Start a conversation. And help keep the freedom to read alive📚
#BannedBooksWeek
![The cycle continues
censored then, censored now
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![*Side by side images of "Are you there God? It's me Margaret" by Judy Blume and "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris*
In the 1980s, a massive
wave of book bans swept across libraries, targeting authors like Judy Blume and the late Robie Harris for their honest portrayals of growing up.
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![*Side by side images of "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood*
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale faced challenges for its sexual content and portrayal of religion.
Its vision of censorship, control,
and lost freedoms made the book
a target of censorship.
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![*Side by side images of "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "Are you there God? It's me Margaret" by Judy Blume and "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris**
Today, history is repeating itself with terrifying precision, as a fresh wave of censorship resurfaces to target Judy Blume once again, alongside Margaret Atwood, Robie Harris, and Sara Paretsky.
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![Banning a book called The Secret Life of Bees sounds like someone declared war on honey.
Except the book isn’t really about bees.
[To the bottom left there is a jar of honey swarmed by bees]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5lfxyqvx6h4l5rkqb267weg/bafkreiafz7g3pztw53voazxwjxtrxgz6vv5pjuym6tnvqiselq3amnzouq)
![[The secret Life of Bees book cover overlayed on a honeycomb]
It’s about grief, race, womanhood, belonging, and what happens when people start asking hard questions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5lfxyqvx6h4l5rkqb267weg/bafkreic5dm52jffc4dbobyg6l5togvoz76yyvabmm4y6ehkgvunduqncce)
