You are welcome to a banned books read-in, to gather together with others from the campus and community and read on the library mezzanine on the afternoon of May 3, a National Freedom to Learn Day of Action.
Beinecke Library will have copies of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Peter Parnell, Justin Richardson, and Henry Cole’s “And Tango Makes Three” available to read and to take for yourself or to share with your friends, family, neighbors, local library, or school. Copies are limited and will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. You are also welcome to bring a book of your own to read on the library mezzanine.
Beinecke Library will also have a temporary display of books from the collection that have been banned in various places and times, such as Morrison’s “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye,” Angie Thomas’s “The Hate U Give,” Judy Blume’s “Forever,” Czesław Miłosz’s ” Zniewolony umysł” (“The Captive Mind”), George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Else Lasker-Schüler’s “Hebräische Balladen” and “Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona,” James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” and Franz Kafka’s “Die Verwandlung” (“The Metarmorphosis”).
This read-in is organized with a local coalition of campus and community partners and in conjunction with a national network of events and action: https://freedomtolearn.net/.