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Let me show you around Dua Lipa’s Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto!! This library champions and celebrates 100 books that ask questions or have been questioned. Many of these books have been banned or publicly challenged somewhere around the world. Instead, here, they can be accessed, enjoyed and discussed. The Service 95 Book Club always platforms incredible books and it’s so moving to see the power of the written word displayed in this way 📚📚📚 Welcome to the Manifesto Library!!

♬ original sound – Jack Edwards

Die „Manifesto Library“ ist eine Dauerausstellung mit 100 Büchern, die im Kultursaal der Livraria Lello in Porto untergebracht ist (via service95.com):

“A partnership between Service95 and Livraria Lello, it’s the first physical expression of our founder, Dua Lipa’s vision: for the Service95 Book Club to become a home for writers and readers, wherever they are and whatever their circumstances.

The collection is more than an archive of banned books, although many on its shelves have been prohibited from publication, stripped from school curricula or removed from library systems in an attempt to stop someone, somewhere from reading them.

It’s a space that brings together titles that have been subject to public debate, some that take censorship itself as their subject and others that have provoked sustained, uncomfortable debate about race, gender, identity and political power. There are books that haven’t been directly challenged but instead do the challenging – whether of existing power structures or the suppression of individual and collective voices – amplifying voices and preserving memories that others have tried to erase.”