J. Marie Bailey, left, a former teacher, and Will Larkins, 18, a high school senior, speak up against book banning and repression of LGBTQ+ students at an April 11 protest during an Orange County school board meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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The tattoos on Jen Cousins’ arms speak to literacy and how books can take us on trips across strange and extraordinary universes: an owl for wisdom, a drawing from the novel “Wonder,” multicolored glasses from Harry Potter and a saying from one of her children: “The world is only what you shape it to be.”
But as any Hogwarts wizard knows, and as Cousins, a mother with a defiant streak, was quick to discover, many forces are conspiring to shape the world.
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