Local Libraries
Atypical Forms of Resistance
Make use of your local libraries.
Take out materials. Often.
Take stuff out to take stuff out.
Keep materials circulating.
This is about proving need.
We’re voting with each book we borrow.
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I agree. I love my local library. I also contribute my used books that I don't read at all anymore to the little community box borrowing library down the street from where I live.
This is a good point. We have to show need. And need for books on history, race, all that infory that some would rather be erased.
I know a .small town children's librarian who catches himself self-censoring. This started several years ago, due to the parents -flipping-out-about -books -theyve -never - seen movement. He felt (feels) personally vulnerable in a purple town also because he has two kids and a husband