Books Not Bans
Books Not Bans is now a registered nonprofit! Fabulosa Books is proud to be part of its origin story and support it as a partner bookstore. Donations are tax deductible. Learn more HERE.
Books Not Bans is a program that sends boxes of free LGBTQ+ books to affirming organizations operating in communities where bigoted politicians are demonizing and banning queer books.
The program rolled out in May of 2023 and has since been tremendously successful, earning a writeup in the Bay Area Reporter and receiving many heartfelt letters from recipients. Boxes have gone, for example, to an LGBTQ-affirming charter school in Alabama, an unaffiliated trans* support group in North Dakota, a Gay Straight Alliance in South Carolina, and LGBT Centers in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Alabama, and South Carolina, and many more organizations!
Every box we send starts out as a query: we first find community groups and ask if they want books, then ask who their primary audience is so we can tailor the titles we send to their needs. Every box contains 20 or so books written by people representing a wide range of ethnicities and sexual identities chosen from amongst Fabulosa bestsellers.
The store has a rotating Books Not Bans display, allowing customers to purchase books or make financial contributions.
Books Not Bans is a program that sends boxes of free LGBTQ+ books to affirming organizations operating in communities where bigoted politicians are demonizing and banning queer books.
The program rolled out in May of 2023 and has since been tremendously successful, earning a writeup in the Bay Area Reporter and receiving many heartfelt letters from recipients. Boxes have gone, for example, to an LGBTQ-affirming charter school in Alabama, an unaffiliated trans* support group in North Dakota, a Gay Straight Alliance in South Carolina, and LGBT Centers in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Alabama, and South Carolina, and many more organizations!
Every box we send starts out as a query: we first find community groups and ask if they want books, then ask who their primary audience is so we can tailor the titles we send to their needs. Every box contains 20 or so books written by people representing a wide range of ethnicities and sexual identities chosen from amongst Fabulosa bestsellers.
The store has a rotating Books Not Bans display, allowing customers to purchase books or make financial contributions.