January 9, 2024
The OUTlook, a weekly newsletter about LGBTQ+ business, labor and workplace equality from Qnotes.
Hello, everyone, and Happy Tuesday! My name is Taylor Heeden, and I am here to bring you some of the latest LGBTQ+ centric business headlines of the week.
This week, I want to focus on the efforts of an Asheville-based bookstore. Firestorm Books, a queer-and trans-owned bookstore, recently announced it received thousands of children’s books from the Duval County Public School system in Florida after they were banned from school libraries.
Now, they’ll be returning those books into the hands of children across Florida starting mid-January.
You can read more about that below.
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Asheville bookstore to ship banned books from Florida back to the state’s students for free
An Asheville-based book store recently announced it received thousands of children’s books from the Duval County Public School system in Florida after they were banned from school libraries. Firestorm Books, a queer-and trans-owned bookstore, will be returning those books into the hands of children across Florida starting mid-January. […]
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