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You know what you are missing from your life? A bus that brings books that allows everyone to read whatever they want while supporting everyone! If that’s what you need, then you need the Rainbow Book Bus!
I recently came across the Rainbow Book Bus and my goodness am I glad that I did. I love this idea!
According to their website:
“Through our flagship bookmobile program, The Rainbow Book Bus distributes diverse books to communities with reduced access to them. We aim to support and amplify organizations that oppose censorship, promote literacy or empower historically underrepresented storytellers. We work towards educational freedom by fighting existing censorship and reacting to future attacks aimed to reduce access to inclusive stories for young people.”
Their reasoning is to help combat all the book censoring that has been going on recently across the United States.
The bus was designed by queer artists India Torrez and Paco May and the bus is absolutely beautiful!
From their website rainbookbus.org
To learn a little more about this bus, definitely check out this video below!
Their tour has begun and as of 14 March they are in Louisiana and working their way around some southern states. You can check out their tour to see if they’re going to be stopping somewhere nearby! This book bus tour is connected with the opening of Allstora which was created by the absolutely wonderful RuPaul! Their goal with the bus is to give away 10,000 books by the end of the year – specifically books that have been criticized and banned.
I think this is such a fun and engaging way to get awareness out there, help to bring banned/restricted books to others and have some fun while doing it!
From NY Times post.
Books are for everyone and no one has the right to restrict your access or ban them!
Follow The Rainbook Book Bus and it’s journey on Instagram – I know I will be!
