The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
On a long-forgotten Sunday during the middle of the nation’s bloodiest war, they uncovered what the future could look like—would look like—for a different kind of country. More
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“Amid the national uproar about whether to allow students access to a wide variety of books, the superintendent of a Virginia school district this week proposed a sweeping solution: Get rid of school libraries altogether.”
On #TransDayOfVisibility, we recommend these commonly banned books of trans stories. In national efforts to restrict free speech — books with LGBTQ+ themes and stories with transgender individuals makeup 9% of all banned books. Read a banned book today!
https://pen.org/banned-books-transgender-stories/
In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/uyghur-diaspora-bookstores-istanbul/ @CodaStory