Tell your local librarian you support their fight against book bans
Your local library will know it can reach out to you about resisting book bans if and when the time comes.
Are you involved with your local library?
OK, first, do you have a library card? Go get one. It'll be useful anyway. Free books! Access to news!
Next: Tell the librarians you appreciate them, that you support their work to make books available, and that you oppose book bans. That's how your local library will know it can reach out to you about resisting book bans if and when the time comes. Your expressed support keeps the librarians' morale up. It also connects you to your community, as you'll meet your neighbors through library activities like author talks and craft groups and you may find you share political values with them too.
Stretch goal: If you're an author, illustrator, or otherwise in the publishing industry, sign up for Authors Against Book Bans. You could offer to speak at a local public forum about book bans to influence your neighbors' opinions.
I got these ideas from Maggie Tokuda-Hall's guest appearance on the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast last April. She said:
"There are really frightening bills in Idaho, Utah, South Carolina. West Virginia just passed one that actually does make librarians criminally liable for carrying books that 'someone' takes objection to."
