Today is the deadline to submit your reading logs to the White House as part of Operation: Uncensor My Summer!
We launched Operation: Uncensor My Summer earlier this summer because while the White House promoted their reading challenge, military kids in DoDEA schools and communities around bases are being denied access to books that reflect diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and critical social issues. Hundreds of titles by authors who challenge the status quo have been banned or challenged with this Administration’s support - and our kids deserve better.
So we flipped the script with our unofficial reading challenge. Instead of accepting censorship in our communities, military families and students read banned books this summer as an act of resistance.
Now it’s time to show what that looks like.
Submit your reading log today, September 5th!
Email it to: read@mail.whitehouse.gov
Get all the instructions here
Share it with us at MFFE so that we can amplify the voices of military families and students standing up against censorship.
Haven’t finished all 12 books? Not everything on your list is a banned book? That’s ok.
Send in what you have anyway - every voice speaking up against book bans matters.
Want to share more?
Post your book list or reflections with #ReadBannedBooks, #UncensorMySummer, or #RedWhiteandBanned.
Book bans in military communities don’t just hurt students, they send a message that some identities, histories, and stories don’t belong. That’s not the freedom military families fight for.
This summer, our reading wasn’t just about books. It was about standing up for intellectual freedom and our kids’ right to see themselves in the stories on their shelves.
They may ban the books, but they can’t ban our voices.
Turn in your log today. Share it with us. Read freely. Resist loudly.
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