# @etraintalks on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CisTMs2vXtt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17325469-etraintalks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-09-19T15:21:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** E TRAIN TALKS - 12 Year Old Literacy Advocate (@etraintalks) — https://gondola.cc/etraintalks

## Caption

It’s #bannedbooksweek, an annual awareness campaign celebrating the #freadom to #read! 
Here are #author @jessica_speer_author thoughts on #bookbanning. 

Jessica writes award winning #MG #books.  Check out her books, “BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)” & “Middle School Safety Goggles Advised.” Two entertaining and important #mglit books to help guide #middleschoolers . 

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Here are some ways #bookriot suggests to help #stopcensorship and promote #freadom of speech! 

*Show up to your local public library and borrow — and read — books that have been banned in the last year. 

*Request your public library purchase books that are by or about queer people, people of color, and books promoting religious freedom. 

*Plan to attend your local school board meeting and speak in support of books by and about people of color and queer people, and fighting antisemitism and religious freedom. 

*Make a donation to groups doing work on the ground. Some options include EveryLibrary, PEN America, and Florida Freedom to Read Project. 

*Find out when school board and library board elections (if applicable) are in your area and make a plan to vote. Research the candidates and if you are unsure where they stand on issues of censorship, reach out to their campaigns and ask.

*Write to your local lawmakers at the state and federal level about the importance of defending intellectual freedom and the right to read for all.

*On “meet the teacher” nights or “back to school” nights — any such event will work — show up and take time to go read in the library. This small action not only shows how much the school library matters and how much life there is within it, but it also protects the library workers who may otherwise face harassment from right-wing “parental rights” people. 

*Talk with 3 people in your community — friends, family, neighbors, etc — about book censorship. 

*See a person on social media post false stories of grooming or indoctrination happening at schools? Call them out!

#stopcensorship #stopantisemitism #literacy #literacymatters #readbannedbooks #readmorebooks #library #librariansrock #teachersday #promotereading #kidpodcaster

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