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"No one ever really dies as long as someone remembers them" from "We are Ugly, but We are Here."

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"No one ever really dies as long as someone remembers them" from "We are Ugly, but We are Here."

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On the right, you can see what (little I managed to write down from when) Evelyn shared from her response to "Ain't I a Woman?"--her references to power and the way certainty blinds you were compelling, as was her description of herself as a goldfish among goldfish. Thanks, Evelyn!

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When reading the prompt inspired by Former Senator John Lewis about “good” and “necessary trouble,” it immediately made me think of book banning and book access. Honestly, I don’t want to have to fight book banning, and what I mean by this is that I don’t want book banning to exist to have to be fought in the first place. So far, I am fortunate to have not had to face specific book banning in my district, school, or classroom. However, I know that it is happening on many fronts.

I have been working to fight book banning with my work with WPCTE this year (alongside Hannah and Carol). We read School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education by Laura Pappano to learn more about the book banning movement. Next week, we’re going to work with NCTE’s Sarah Miller to write a book rationale to add to the NCTE Book Rationale Database. We are writing a rationale on Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman. If you’re not familiar with the book, it is a graphic novel about two boys who fall for each other. It is so heartfelt and so important in so many ways.

I plan to continue to fight for book access for students. I believe in having a variety of books in my classroom library and advocating for students to read books of their choice in school.

You wouldn’t think that advocating for reading would be any type of “trouble,” but here we are. And we are needed.