Because knowledge is power—and fascists hate that.
Today’s Featured Survival Skill:
Use Your Local Library as a Resistance Hub
Libraries aren’t just for overdue books and weirdly damp carpets—they’re one of the last publicly funded, freely accessible spaces where people can meet, organize, and educate themselves without swiping a credit card or getting frisked.
Fascists know this. That’s why they’re banning books, firing librarians, and gutting public funding. But we’re not just going to sit quietly in the reading nook and let that happen.
Here’s how to turn your library card into a weapon of mass deprogramming:
1. Reserve the meeting room.
Most public libraries have free meeting spaces. Organize community teach-ins, mutual aid info sessions, or “Banned Book Clubs” to read the very books they’re afraid of.
2. Request banned books.
Ask your library to stock the banned and challenged titles they’re trying to erase. Most librarians will back you—quietly, cleverly, and with the fury of a thousand shushed revolutions.
3. Use the tech.
Free internet. Free printers. Free software. Use it to design flyers, make protest signs, send encrypted emails, or run your resistance blog. (Hi.)
4. Protect the space.
Show up to board meetings when fascists try to push “parental control” policies. Speak. Be loud. Bring facts and friends.
5. Recruit and radicalize—gently.
Leave a zine on the table. Strike up a conversation. Libraries are full of people looking for answers. Be one.
🧷 Today’s To-Do List:
✅ Find your local library: American Library Association
✅ Request at least one banned book this week. Try All Boys Aren’t Blue, Gender Queer, or The Hate U Give.
✅ Ask about reserving a meeting room. Even if you don’t have a plan—yet.
✅ Print 5 flyers about your next action or fundraiser at the library.
✅ Attend a library board meeting if one’s coming up. Be seen. Be heard. Be annoying (in a good way).
📚 Source List:
- ALA’s Most Challenged Books
- We Are Teachers: Free Resources
- Library Freedom Project — digital privacy tools for librarians and users
- Book Bans Map – PEN America
They want you ignorant. They want you isolated. The public library says: not today, fascist.
📖✊ #Revolution2025 #ResistanceKitty #LibrariesAreWeapons
