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Hello friend,

Dolly Parton wasn’t just a cultural icon; she was a champion of the freedom to read. Through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, she sent more than 300 million books to children all over the world, guided by a simple belief: that every child deserves access to books and that reading changes lives.

That belief is under threat, challenged like never before in the public libraries millions of children depend on every day.

In PEN America’s latest report, Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries, we investigate how political threats and defunding are turning public libraries into censorship battlegrounds. Books are being banned. Programs are being canceled due to political pressure. And librarians are being harassed and even fired.

These attacks affect everyone . When children lose access to books, literacy rates fall, mental health outcomes falter, and a whole society becomes less equipped to manage differences across cultures, sexual identities, and beliefs.

PEN America won’t stand for this. Make a gift today to help us fight book censorship. We track book bans, educational gag orders, and policies — local, state, or federal — that infringe on your right to read, write, and learn.

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Please consider supporting our work today, and ask yourself: What would Dolly do?

In Solidarity,

Maayan Dauber

Chief Development Officer

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