Singer P!nk will give away banned books at 2 Florida concerts

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/11/13/pink-florida-concerts-banned-books/

Hitmaker P!nk has teamed with free-speech advocates PEN America and will distribute banned books at her first couple of concert stops in Florida this week.

P!nk, known for chart-topping hits such as “Raise Your Glass,” “Get This Party Started” and “So What,” kicks off the Florida leg of her current tour in Miami on Tuesday, with a performance in Sunrise on Wednesday before arriving in Orlando for a pair of concerts Saturday and Sunday.

At her South Florida stops, the singer announced Monday, 2,000 copies of four books that have been banned by various public schools will be given away in partnership with PEN America and Books & Books, a bookseller founded in 1982 by Miami Beach native Mitchell Kaplan.

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Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 52 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Do you want a replacement for Dolly Parton?

Because this is how it starts

Telorand@reddthat.com · 50 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I don't want a replacement. I want another one.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y

Looks like we're on track. Defying thr government by handing out books is one of my favorite repeating tropes.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

English am a funny language. The phrase should be "I want an additional one!" "I want another one" could mean "I want one more," OR "I want a different one."

Trust me, I is a Big Freakin' Author

Telorand@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I agree! Hopefully the contextual clues clarified things.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Just waxing pedantic

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 41 pts · 2y

Remember last week when conservatives got mad that Taylor Swift told her fans to vote? Oh boy, wait until they find out Pink wants her fans to read books!

JCreazy@midwest.social · 19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

a book from Reshma Saujani’s “Girls Who Code” series, which aims to encourage girls to consider careers in technology.

I wonder why this book is banned

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I tracked this when it first happened and the answer seems to be "nobody knows". Moms for liberty denied advocating for it's ban, and it was later removed from the list of books. Girls Who Code, the organization, supports reproductive freedom and trans rights and most speculation pointed to that as the reason for the ban, but no concrete reasoning ever surfaced.

bl4kers@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Cool cool cool 🙃

naut@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

the list is fake

authed@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y

Nice

Wahots@pawb.social · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I have loved P!nk for ages, she seems like a deeply good person. And her music is good too :)

Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

I don't follow her that much, but every time I see her in the news I just appreciate her so much. I don't know if pop punk is a thing, but she 100% gives that kind of vibe to me, emphasis on the punk. 🤘

naut@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

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naut@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y