We Need Diverse Books Launches #BooksSaveLives Campaign

Over the past 2 years, publication bans person been an ongoing reality. The bulk of books being banned are those by and astir marginalized people, including individuals of colour and those who are LGBTQ+. This week, We Need Diverse Books launched a caller run to code this onslaught of censorship.

#BooksSaveLives volition officially motorboat December 1, 2022, with a three-prong strategy:

• Books Save Lives Grant volition connection up to $10,000 for schools to acquisition inclusive books for their collection, prioritizing those experiencing ongoing publication bans and challenges.
• We Need Diverse Books volition make a usher for educators, arsenic good arsenic supply enactment connected the crushed to situation censorship efforts successful communities crossed the country. This volition see writer visits, librarian support, and more.
• The wealth volition besides enactment authors experiencing these challenges, guaranteeing publicity, fiscal support, and rubric acquisition to assistance them support an income and proceed their work.

All are encouraged to instrumentality portion successful the run successful 1 (or all) of 3 ways:

• Starting December 1, instrumentality a selfie with a publication that saved your beingness and why, past usage the #BooksSaveLives hashtag connected societal media to stock your story.
• Advocate for divers books inn your community, including immoderate of the steps outlined here.
• Make a fiscal donation to We Need Diverse Books’s fund for ending publication bans.

Learn much astir #BooksSaveLives, arsenic good arsenic entree resources for challenging publication censorship successful your ain community, astatine the #BooksSaveLives programme page.

Find much quality and stories of involvement from the publication satellite in Breaking successful Books.