10/12/2026
Thanks Annie's Foundation for educating us on what a book ban really means.
๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ ๐ง๐๐ฐ๐ฌ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ.
Except, obviously, none of that is true.
Because โ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐โ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ง๐ญ โ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐.โ
Everyone understands this.
Including Governor Reynolds, apparently. She's perfectly comfortable using the word ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ when she's talking about cell phones and TikTok.
But put a book in the sentence and suddenly we're holding a graduate seminar on what the word ban really means.
Is a book truly banned if it still exists somewhere in the universe?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
You can buy the book on Amazon.
You can look for it at the public library.
Your parents can buy you a copy.
๐จ๐๐
๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
We promise these concepts can coexist.
And here's the part that actually matters:
Books aren't cell phones. They're not shampoo. They're not parking spaces.
Books let kids encounter lives they haven't lived.
They let kids recognize their own lives on a page and discover that someone else has lived them too.
They let kids ask hard questions about racism, violence, s*x, abuse, religion, identity, power, history, grief, injustice, and the world they're about to inherit.
Sometimes books make kids uncomfortable.
Sometimes they make parents uncomfortable.
Sometimes they make politicians uncomfortable.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฐ.
A school library isn't supposed to contain only the books that every parent would personally choose for every child.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ซ๐๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐.
Parents should absolutely decide what ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐๐.
They should not get to turn their family's bookshelf into everybody else's.
And โyou can always buy it yourselfโ is a particularly lousy answer to a kid who depends on the school library precisely because they can't.
So yes.
๐๐ก๐๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ.
If you think a particular book should be banned from a school library, make that argument.
Defend the ban.
Explain why you think it's justified.
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐ง.
We promise: ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฏ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐.
๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ค.
And don't worry.
๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐จ๐ง.
