Latest posts tagged with #DefendTheFirst on Bluesky
Square white image with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple bars. Down the left side, it reads: Today is a good day to read banned books. Inside the purple bar is a white Bywater Books logo.
🏳️🌈📚✅ We checked again—it still isn't the good guys ripping books out of libraries.
#LGBTQBooks #SapphicBooks #QueerReads #ReadForYourRights #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom
🏳️🌈📚🚫 You can’t delete what refuses to disappear.
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned
🏳️🌈📚🚫 Forbidden fruit tastes best. Pick up a banned book & satisfy your craving. 🍑
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned
🏳️🌈📚🚫Censorship can suck it—read a banned book, stay badass.
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned
🏳️🌈📚🚫 Last we checked, it wasn’t the good guys ripping books out of libraries.
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom
Our democracy rests on the preservation of our #FirstAmendment.
#BrendanCarr #StandWithKimmel #JimmyKimmelLive #ProtectFreeSpeech #HandsOffComedy #DefendTheFirst #FreedomOverFear #ArtIsSpeech #NoGovernmentCensorship #RightsNotFavors
I’m not caving. Instead of saying the First Amendment doesn’t exist, I’m saying IT DOES, and I’m going to fight them in any way I can: boycotts, marches, phone calls, etc.
#DefendTheFirst
We couldn't have said it better.
#DefendTheFirst
Advocating for Christian nationalism is advocating for the erosion of religious liberty. Greene doesn’t represent “freedom”—she represents a religious power grab. The First Amendment was written to stop exactly this kind of authoritarian theocratic nonsense.
#DefendTheFirst #NoReligiousRule
Cracking down on lawful protests isn’t leadership—it’s fascism with a press team. Trump fears dissent. Silencing peaceful voices is a desperate move by a regime that knows it’s losing the people. Protest is patriotic. We won’t be quiet. #DefendTheFirst #ResistAuthoritarianism #resist
The Bluest Eye is the 6th most challenged book in 2023. Its author is Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.
It's been challenged on the grounds that it is sexually explicit and includes EDI content. However, the novel has been used in AP English Lit classes for years and has received positive commentary.
This picture provides a summary of the book. "In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment." - Amazon
People are making copycat book challenges across the country using passages out-of-context that they collect and share online. This novel by a Nobel prize-winning author is the 6th most challenged book in 2023. /1 #FreePeopleReadFreely #SchoolLibrariesRock #LibrariesRock #DefendtheFirst
