Texas Freedom to Read Project
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
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Again, I’m begging @lastweektonight.com to give this story the full John Oliver treatment. It’s that crazy.
You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Please don’t say “genitals” one more time, Carroll ISD SLAC.
Listen to the audio of the committee that decided to ban Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn from Carroll ISD. If you dare.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Again, I’m begging @lastweektonight.com to give this story the full John Oliver treatment. It’s that crazy.
This is NOT normal. It's weird to read a book about a unicorn sitting in paint & make it sexual. The hyper-fixation on non existent genitals & sexualizing benign stories is harmful. The book isn't sexualizing unicorns or kids, the women on the committee are. THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.
You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Please don’t say “genitals” one more time, Carroll ISD SLAC.
Listen to the audio of the committee that decided to ban Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn from Carroll ISD. If you dare.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is NOT normal. It's weird to read a book about a unicorn sitting in paint & make it sexual. The hyper-fixation on non existent genitals & sexualizing benign stories is harmful. The book isn't sexualizing unicorns or kids, the women on the committee are. THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.
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You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Please don’t say “genitals” one more time, Carroll ISD SLAC.
Listen to the audio of the committee that decided to ban Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn from Carroll ISD. If you dare.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
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On Saturday, @authorsabb.bsky.social won the ALAN Award at @ncte.org, and I was honored to accept it on our behalf.
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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ATTN: Salado Public Library supporters- take note of this call to action to pack the upcoming board meeting on 12/1: 5pm. Voice *support for the library committee’s decision* to deny a patron’s request to remove the children’s book- When Aidan Became a Brother by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
ATTN: Salado Public Library supporters- take note of this call to action to pack the upcoming board meeting on 12/1: 5pm. Voice *support for the library committee’s decision* to deny a patron’s request to remove the children’s book- When Aidan Became a Brother by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
A well deserved honor for our colleague @frankstrong.bsky.social for his work with @txfreedomread.bsky.social ! #NCTE25
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
2025 has lost the plot.
Books are not a threat.
Books are not a threat.
Very concerning!
“The saying, ‘see something, say something’ is supposed to be about a potential shooter or threat. But North East ISD has used it for books.” @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
“The saying, ‘see something, say something’ is supposed to be about a potential shooter or threat. But North East ISD has used it for books.” @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
NEISD's 'See something, say something' book warning loses the narrative
"See something, say something” is supposed to be about danger. NEISD used it for books.
www.expressnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
2025 has lost the plot.
Books are not a threat.
Books are not a threat.
We know him!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
So proud of our cofounder, @frankstrong.bsky.social
So proud of our cofounder, @frankstrong.bsky.social
So, so honored to receive a National Intellectual Freedom Award from @ncte.org for fighting censorship. This is truly a highlight of my career.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
We know him!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
So proud of our cofounder, @frankstrong.bsky.social
So proud of our cofounder, @frankstrong.bsky.social
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@frankstrong.bsky.social accepting @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Award!!
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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We are seeing a sudden flurry of censorship activity in smaller towns in central Texas. If you are a parent or librarian in this area, please reach out to us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social if you need support.
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are seeing a sudden flurry of censorship activity in smaller towns in central Texas. If you are a parent or librarian in this area, please reach out to us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social if you need support.
Also an excellent option!!! 👇🏻
I did one better: I stopped by and thanked them in person, a few weeks ago. 😊
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Also an excellent option!!! 👇🏻
Libraries do so much for our communities and families and we'd like to give back!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Libraries do so much for our communities and families and we'd like to give back!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!
Read this. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
NEW: As Texas school districts scramble to comply with a new state law banning "indecent" and "profane" library books, one startup is cashing in.
I dug into tens of thousands of dollars in contracts between the company and Texas public schools. Here's what I learned: 🧵
I dug into tens of thousands of dollars in contracts between the company and Texas public schools. Here's what I learned: 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Read this. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.
This is what "parents rights" looks like in TX: 1 mother decides what 8,292 students don't get access to read b/c she thinks boy unicorns shouldn't be pink or have eyelashes. *side note: the unicorn isn't pink, but he does have eyelashes. And to TX legislators: your bad laws are harming our kids.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.
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We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
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This thread is a MUST READ. Nothing I have read since 2021 better captures the complete insanity of the “parents rights” book-banning movement than the need to protect kids from unicorn eyelashes.
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This thread is a MUST READ. Nothing I have read since 2021 better captures the complete insanity of the “parents rights” book-banning movement than the need to protect kids from unicorn eyelashes.
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If you missed the Librarians Film at Tribfest, it is showing at the Alamo South Lamar Sat-Wed! #texastribfest
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
If you missed the Librarians Film at Tribfest, it is showing at the Alamo South Lamar Sat-Wed! #texastribfest
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
Can anybody in book world help these Houston friends out? 👇🏻
Houston's Book Fairy Brigade is
desperately in need of Spanish books, as well as middle grade novels and board books.
Every free book put into the hands of a child is an act of resistance AND joy.
Books feed the soul, fuel dreams, and offer hope.
bit.ly/478Xy38
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
desperately in need of Spanish books, as well as middle grade novels and board books.
Every free book put into the hands of a child is an act of resistance AND joy.
Books feed the soul, fuel dreams, and offer hope.
bit.ly/478Xy38
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Can anybody in book world help these Houston friends out? 👇🏻
Congratulations to all of the communities who voted to reject book banning hysteria and to restore common sense, civility, and pro-public ed decision making to their Texas school boards last night. 💙📚🗳️
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations to all of the communities who voted to reject book banning hysteria and to restore common sense, civility, and pro-public ed decision making to their Texas school boards last night. 💙📚🗳️
Tonight’s Texas school board election results continue to prove parents of public school students love our schools, hate book bans, and want leaders who will support educators and employees who serve our communities.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Tonight’s Texas school board election results continue to prove parents of public school students love our schools, hate book bans, and want leaders who will support educators and employees who serve our communities.
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We really enjoyed reading Butt or Face and got our copy from the public library.
[spoiler warning] The pearlfish one is a real thinker 🤯
[spoiler warning] The pearlfish one is a real thinker 🤯
When the bar for “inappropriate” falls to animal butts, we have really lost the plot.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We really enjoyed reading Butt or Face and got our copy from the public library.
[spoiler warning] The pearlfish one is a real thinker 🤯
[spoiler warning] The pearlfish one is a real thinker 🤯
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I would also add that this is a pretty typical “Animal Facts” book that just has a fun googly eyes premise. Kids love animal facts!
When the bar for “inappropriate” falls to animal butts, we have really lost the plot.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I would also add that this is a pretty typical “Animal Facts” book that just has a fun googly eyes premise. Kids love animal facts!
Don’t sleep on this post by @rachaelreads.bsky.social
AI in library and book world results in some crazy 💩
😱 Hallucinations of sexual content that doesn’t exist.
👀 Declaring books like To Kill a Mockingbird illegal.
🤯 Producing titles for books that don’t exist.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
AI in library and book world results in some crazy 💩
😱 Hallucinations of sexual content that doesn’t exist.
👀 Declaring books like To Kill a Mockingbird illegal.
🤯 Producing titles for books that don’t exist.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
Using AI to “vet” & “review” library book purchase lists & collections for compliance with confusing, overly broad laws.
What could go wrong? 🫠
Find out over on the @txfreedomread.bsky.social blog today in this guest post by TX school librarian Rachael Welsh.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
What could go wrong? 🫠
Find out over on the @txfreedomread.bsky.social blog today in this guest post by TX school librarian Rachael Welsh.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
Texas School Districts are Overwhelmed by New Library Laws: AI is Not the Answer
School Librarian, Rachael Welsh, shares insights and observations about the pitfalls and risks of using AI in library purchasing, reconsideration, and more.
www.txftrp.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Don’t sleep on this post by @rachaelreads.bsky.social
AI in library and book world results in some crazy 💩
😱 Hallucinations of sexual content that doesn’t exist.
👀 Declaring books like To Kill a Mockingbird illegal.
🤯 Producing titles for books that don’t exist.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
AI in library and book world results in some crazy 💩
😱 Hallucinations of sexual content that doesn’t exist.
👀 Declaring books like To Kill a Mockingbird illegal.
🤯 Producing titles for books that don’t exist.
www.txftrp.org/texas_school...
When the bar for “inappropriate” falls to animal butts, we have really lost the plot.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When the bar for “inappropriate” falls to animal butts, we have really lost the plot.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.
Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.