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The unrelenting pace of book bans in this country–especially those targeting narratives about people of color and those with LGBTQ characters–is threatening the rights of school children to read the stories that can matter most – the ones in which they see themselves. PEN America fights for the right to read and write.
Margaret with flamethrower
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Margaret Atwood warned us that the first sign of totalitarianism is book banning. As a powerful symbol against this censorship, she created an unburnable copy of her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, which has been banned for years. 

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Deborah K. Wilson
Chief Development Officer
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