@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
Post #4283191
2026-07-31 01:47 UTC
And it's not just me--wait times at libraries are skyrocketing. Book stores are flourishing. All while attacks on books (from AI, fascists) are escalating.
**BOOKS ARE THE BATTLEGROUND**
luxury focus on books is just the elites/upper-class wanting what the rag tag rebels are actually doing
5/n
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop 2026-07-31 01:47
I found that whole article very interesting and smart but missing the resistance part (because she's focused on culture/luxury). I think a lot about how all the "cool" stuff (in culture) starts in the underground (the subcultures, the resistance, the disenfranchised) and then gets co-opted 6/n
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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social 2026-07-31 05:15
Sadly, we've been here before. Multiple times. This is a different tactic to eliminate reading *for everyone* they tried it with POC decades ago and are refining their tactics after learning why they "failed at keeping those folk from reading!" . @susankayequinn@wandering.shop