03/16/2026
Reading is a literal lifeline for many people, especially children. This fact is backed by significant mental health data.
For many, seeing themselves in a book is the first time they realize they aren't alone.
Our best educational experience centers the rights of the child over the "thought police."
📚 Hands Off Our Right to Read
The current crusade to ban LGBTQIA+ books isn’t about "protection"—it’s about erasure.
We are seeing a wave of sanctimonious gatekeeping, fueled by high-profile retaliation and personal agendas, that treats a child’s identity as "propaganda."
Let’s be clear: Representation Saves Lives:
For many LGBTQIA+ youth, finding themselves in a book is the bridge that carries them safely to adulthood.
It isn't propaganda; it’s a lifeline.
The Right to Information: Access to diverse stories is a fundamental human right.
Children are individuals with their own agency, not property to be molded by the "thought police."
Education Over Ideology: Public schools exist to open minds, not to serve as a laboratory for forced conformity.
History has never looked kindly on those who burn or ban books.
When you strip a child of the right to see themselves reflected in the world, you aren’t "saving" them—you are isolating them.
You are installing a desperate feeling of hopelessness.
Of being different. Misunderstood. Unloved. Rejected. Marginalized. Discarded.
Our children have the right to read.
Our children have the right to exist.
Sanctimonious? Judgmental? Authoritarian?
Then, stay out of our libraries and our schools.
Children do not need your baggage.