Welcome to Litsy!

Today is the last day to Early Vote here in North Carolina. I voted about 2 weeks ago when voting opened. I always vote not only because it‘s important but because people have fought so hard for this right.

Thanks for the idea to post about voting Alyisha!

(That‘s this year‘s voting sticker. I always stick them on this organizer.)

I am so relieved. Now begins the job of fixing the damage the previous administration caused our country. I do not envy anyone that task.

Thinking it's a good day to finally start this one.
Happy voting to all the U.S. littens. 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Some books to engage, encourage and educate about Voting: https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/voting-rights/
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/25617.Children_s_Books_About_Voting
I Voted!!! Cheers to civic engagement 🎉

A few #activist books for #readingresolutions

I read this for an upcoming League of Women Voters book discussion. I found the beginning to be a somewhat slow review of the civil rights era of King, Lewis, et al (which I've studied quite a bit recently, but others may appreciate more). I especially appreciated the more intermediate and recent content. [I‘m not sure “appreciated” is the right word. I certainly found it compelling.] I‘m glad I stuck with it.

Snagged a nonfiction audiobook deal ($4.95) from the Audible End-of-Summer Sale! Feels mighty timely 👊🏽 #audiobook

PS: if you can't tell by now, I have a serious book buying problem. Someone needs to save me from myself and take my wallet away 😂

This book was difficult to listen to because the subject is so infuriating. Our voting rights are being systematically taken away through suppression and disenfranchisement. It does make you want to fight though.

I'm about a third of the way through this book and I'm finding it extremely upsetting. Every time we make progress in this country the right pushes back so viciously it makes it harder to move forward the next time. 😡

#junebookbugs #stripes All my books are packed for yet another move and I most definitely do not want to "celebrate all the adulting you do." I'd rather be reading this book!

Paid a trip to B&N tonight for some self care. I came back with these beauties! I'll read anything Rebecca Solnit writes, and this one seems especially prescient. Give Us the Ballot is about voting rights in the US, and he's been very outspoken against voter suppression ever since the Voting Rights Act was rolled back. The Hundred-Year Walk is about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. I want to read up on it because...reasons. 📖

"Despite our many distinctions as a democracy, the enduring debate over who can and cannot participate in it remains a key feature of our national character." (11-12)
I have a feeling this book will be very quotable. #24in48 #ReadersResist

On the Voting Rights Act: "The Act gives a broad interpretation to the right to vote, recognizing that voting includes 'all action necessary to make a vote effective.'" (7) #24in48 #ReadersResist

Tea and the books I'm starting during the #24in48 readathon. Once they're all started, the rotation continues! No baking today, just reading and munching on cinnamon rolls! #24in48readathon #ReadersResist

Post #MLK #24in48 reads

Hers and hers #PossibleBookHaul

Working on ideas for #24in48 Readathon next weekend, and thinking it will be high time for some #ReadersResist reading. It's a wee bit nonfiction heavy, so I'll need to see what I can find to give me some more variety.

This is a depressing book made more so after our recent election. Covering the history of the Voting Rights Act and all of the ways we continue to wrestle with voter suppression, this book is informative and important.

Saw this over on Instagram from Powell's Books. Head over there and give them suggestions! #overthis

This book along with "The New Jim Crow" are probably the most important books I've read this year.

On Election Day I am thinking about this book and how hard people have fought -- and still do -- for the right to vote. #NonfictionNovember

💰💰 SALE ALERT $3.95 💰💰

Audible's Daily Deal is a great book on the ongoing struggles with disenfranchisement under the National Voting Rights Act of 1965, from racial gerrymandering (redrawing voting district lines), voter ID laws, etc. It's a thorough, timely look at voting rights in the United States & an important read for those who want to become more informed. 🗳🇺🇸

In case any of you need an absentee ballot, this is where to get one. It has every state's policy for the absentee voting procedure and links to where you can request it for your state. Just because you will not be in the area when the time comes, you can still make your voice heard! #VoteHoney #RockTheVote #MakeYourVoiceHeard #VOTE

FVAP.gov

Or call 1-800-438-VOTE (8683)

Admittedly one-sided but essential history of Voting Rights Act (1965). Interesting to see how a racial response to the growing political threat of African Americans morphed into a partisan strategy by the largely white GOP.