“The Free Little Library” was never intended to actually provide books to those who need them, but to give affluent neighborhoods a homey, quirky, intellectual, benevolent aesthetic.
In Denver, the same neighborhoods that have them are the ones that vote to make it illegal for homeless people to exist, because they don’t like the idea of homeless people being near their homes.
This has been an issue in Denver for YEARS, and yet the same neighborhoods that vote for these bans have SO many Free Little Libraries.
THEY LIVE IS A DOCUMENTARY 👁️
I bet nazis had something similar, extremely soy attempt at resolving the contradictions of class society. Literary Karens are just as disgusting as any illiterate fascists!!!
I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. An intentional community provided designs and tools in exchange for materials. About 20 houses built these together, then the community helped install them.
We live across the street from a park. In the summer, especially, unhoused people - often with kids - stop by to take books back to their cars and trailers.
My wife is a social worker, and the library has been a great pretext for her to engage with folks, help them find services faster than if they started at the front door, and for us to give them food and water.
We’re not trying to reconcile jack shit. We’re trying to share and be helpful, and have succeeded a little.
This is a hexbear injoke btw, it’s a reference to an old post made by a hexbear power user who was well known for getting really angry about minor things and consistently finding some way to claim they’re fascist
I’d be immensely suspicious of anyone who actually agreed with the quoted bits I posted.
relevant BMF post
I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. An intentional community provided designs and tools in exchange for materials. About 20 houses built these together, then the community helped install them.
We live across the street from a park. In the summer, especially, unhoused people - often with kids - stop by to take books back to their cars and trailers.
My wife is a social worker, and the library has been a great pretext for her to engage with folks, help them find services faster than if they started at the front door, and for us to give them food and water.
We’re not trying to reconcile jack shit. We’re trying to share and be helpful, and have succeeded a little.
This is a hexbear injoke btw, it’s a reference to an old post made by a hexbear power user who was well known for getting really angry about minor things and consistently finding some way to claim they’re fascist
I’d be immensely suspicious of anyone who actually agreed with the quoted bits I posted.
Well then I’m sorry I muttered “fuck this guy.”