queer indie bookseller, made out of pipe cleaners and gumption
soft butch, hard left
she/her
Mar 1, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Today I had a customer order books by Malcolm X and Mumia Abu-Jamal, to be shipped to an incarcerated person. I regularly ship books to prisons, but I also know that some states consider possession of Black Panther lit to be equivalent to gang membership.
I contacted the customer to let him know, in case he didn't. If the recipient had specifically requested these books, that would have been different, but they hadn't; they'd just asked for something to read.