A Cultural Bookshop

Education Is Rebellion With Better Design.

A bookshop for thinkers, teachers, and makers who refuse indoctrination.

Punk & Pedagogy is an anti-authoritarian bookshop for readers, educators, parents, and makers who believe knowledge is liberation. We curate books across five stages of critical awakening — from questioning the world around you to building something better.

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The most subversive thing you can do is think for yourself. — Audre LordeTo be truly radical is to make hope possible. — Raymond WilliamsWhen education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. — Paulo FreireArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. — Cesar A. CruzThe master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. — Audre LordeIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu KrishnamurtiImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. — Lewis CarrollIf you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the sea. — Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe most subversive thing you can do is think for yourself. — Audre LordeTo be truly radical is to make hope possible. — Raymond WilliamsWhen education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. — Paulo FreireArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. — Cesar A. CruzThe master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. — Audre LordeIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu KrishnamurtiImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. — Lewis CarrollIf you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Oct 4–Oct 10 · Banned Books Week

4,235 BOOKS TARGETED. READ ONE.

Counted by the American Library Association. Pick one and find out why.

Read One This Week →Learn More at BannedBooksWeek.org ↗

Reading Journey

Banned: Proof the Books Worked

They're banned because they worked. Read them anyway.

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From the Banned & Challenged Shelf

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Survival instincts don't stop at the Wall.

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

A Black queer memoir they tried to erase from schools

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Blankets

Craig Thompson

The memoir that proved comics could break your heart.

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Breathless

Jennifer Niven

A teen girl writes her own story.

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Different Seasons

Stephen King

How fascism finds the boy next door.

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Flamer

Mike Curato

A gay Latino teen at camp. Banned for existing.

✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Stories From the Shelf

Banned Book

1984 Is Banned for Opposite Reasons. That's the Point.

The Soviets banned 1984 as anti-communist. A Florida county challenged it as pro-communist. Every censor reads it as a book about somebody else.

Banned Book

When a School District Pulls The Bluest Eye, It Proves Morrison's Point

Cobb County, Georgia pulled The Bluest Eye from its middle and high school libraries on Sept. 17 and says that is not a ban. The novel is about a town that looked away from a child.

Your 5-Stage Recovery from Normal

SEE THROUGH IT

The world is lying to you. These books prove it.

FEEL THE FISSURE

You can't unknow what you know. Sit with it.

LAUGH & RESIST

Because fury without laughter burns you out.

MAKE SOMETHING BETTER

Enough diagnosis. Time to build.

RAISE THE FUTURE ★

They're watching. What are you handing them?

Not Sure Where to Start?

Five questions, five stages. Find your reading entry point.

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