Dora Reads

Dora Reads is the book blog of a Bookish Rebel, supporting the Diversity Movement, bringing you Queer views and mental health advocacy, slipping in a lot of non-bookish content, and spreading reading to the goddamn world! :) (All posts may contain Amazon links, which are affiliate, unless marked otherwise. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. USA ONLY - please do not make UK purchases with my links)

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Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 July 2023

Comics Wrap-Up - Those Pesky Mortals

**This post contains Amazon affiliate links for Amazon.com. I receive a small commission for qualifying purchases ma...

Sunday, 26 February 2023

Nerd Church - The Roald Dahl Edits Are Capitalism, Actually

Warning: this post discusses general bigotry, as well as more detailed anti-Semitism and racism, and other related topics. Links...

Thursday, 1 September 2022

Comics Wrap-Up - So. Unnecessary.

It's Thursday, I am peak tired millennial, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!

Thursday, 25 August 2022

Comics Wrap-Up - The Biggest Target

It's Thursday, I'm tired, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Comics Wrap-Up - In Case Anyone Was In Doubt

It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, the UK is Too Hot (I feel like I'm melting,) let's get some comics-y superher...

Thursday, 17 March 2022

Comics Wrap-Up - No-one's Around To Judge Me

It's Thursday, I'm very tired, but we've got lots of comics-y superhero-y goodness, so let's get to it!

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Comics Wrap-Up - I'm Not What You Think You See

Girl power, Queer power, and a butt-tonne of comics-y goodness! It's Thursday, and it's time for superheroes!

Sunday, 24 March 2019

Nerd Church - The Dilemma of Morally Dubious Media (Ft. American Psycho, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter)

Warning: this post discusses morally dubious media, including but not limited to: rape, murder, incest, general violence. Image by Ge...

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Month in Review(s) - September 2018

Ohmygod September. September was a f**king rollercoaster. The type where you throw up a lot. (I'm actually kind of quietly...

Sunday, 23 September 2018

#BannedBooksWeek: Nerd Church - F**k It, Let's Talk Censorship (Ft. Thirteen Reasons Why)

Warning: this post discusses suicide, suicidal thoughts, mental health problems, sexual harassment, and censorship. Links may also dis...

Friday, 21 September 2018

Friday Fics Fix - Love Vs War. Freedom Vs Silence.

'He’d read all of Bucky’s letters over and over till he almost knew them by heart, and none of the phrases in the transcript were ...

Sunday, 3 June 2018

Nerd Church - Light in the Dark

This week, between the sh** Germaine Greer said *, and the cr*p Tommy Robinson pulled **, it might've seemed ...

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Nerd Church - Yes, We Damn Well Need Fair Reviews

To my non-blogging readers (hi! don't leave! I neeeed you!!! 😉 Lol) and also my blogging readers who haven't seen the ripples on bo...

Sunday, 7 January 2018

Nerd Church - 5 Things I Learned From Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (Without Reading a Word)

'Oh scream, America, scream. Believe what you see. From Heroes and Cons.' We are in the middle of the 21st Centu...

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Month in Review(s) - September 2017

September was a mixed bag. But then, that's life I suppose! Still, it was my birthday month, so there's that at least ;) ...

Sunday, 24 September 2017

#BannedBooksWeek | Nerd Church - On Censorship

24th-30th September 2017 is Banned Books Week , as set up by the American Library Association (ALA.) I'm all for intellectual freedo...

Saturday, 26 November 2016

Why Critique Is The Opposite of Censorship

Dearest nerdlets, I have a few things that I want to say: Firstly, guess what? Not everyone is going to have the same opinions as yo...

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Banned Books Week 2016 - Dangerous Words

As part of Banned Books Week 2016, I figured I'd look at some quotes from books that are often challenged. So, are words really th...

Monday, 26 September 2016

Banned Books Week 2016 - Diverse Books Under Threat

Given that diverse books make up a relatively small amount of the total books available (in English, at least,) it should be eye-o...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Censorship - Are We All Hypocrites...?

... and I mean that in the nicest possible way ;) This post is going to be more questions than answers I'm afraid, but feel free to ...

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