Bookstore in Norman, Oklahoma sells t-shirts, merchandise with QR code linking to Brooklyn library banned books checklist

NORMAN, Okla. (WLS) — A bookstore proprietor in Oklahoma is taking a stand by difficult a state ban on some books.

Inexperienced Feather Ebook Firm has been open for lower than a month in Norman, Oklahoma.

The proprietor, Heather Corridor, needs all books to be accessible to college students.

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Corridor is placing QR codes on particular merchandise so youngsters can nonetheless entry books which were banned from native lecture rooms.

Corridor stated a part of her mission is private.

“I’ve youngsters in Norman public colleges. I’ve a 12 12 months previous who’s LGBTQ+, they usually want to have the ability to see themselves,” Corridor stated. “All youngsters want to have the ability to see themselves within the books that they are studying. That is a part of the fantastic thing about books is that you simply get to narrate.”

Some mother and father have stated it is inappropriate.

Corridor hopes to encourage extra conversations between mother and father and children.

“I am hoping that it’s going to assist encourage somebody in an administrative place to face up,” Corridor stated.