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The Unicorn Express

Dear <<First Name>>,

Just a week ago, we started The Unicorn Express, a community-supported effort established in response to the widespread banning of books that are written by LGBTQ+ authors, feature LGBTQ+ storylines, and/or discuss gender and sexuality. In just a week, we’ve received an overwhelming response from both LGBTQ+ youth requesting books and also community members interested in supporting this effort. Thanks so much for inquiring about how to support our work! Below we've detailed our most pressing needs at the moment.


We Need Financial Support to Buy Books!
If you’re interested in supporting The Unicorn Express financially, we’ve partnered with our friends over at A Room Of One’s Own, a queer/trans-owned feminist bookstore. This partnership lets us support an independent bookseller, streamlines book distribution, and ensures transparency and accountability with funding. 

  1. Visit bit.ly/supportunicorns. This shortened link will take you to A Room Of One’s Own “Online Gift Code” page. To support our work, just send us an online gift code in any amount. Important: For recipient email address, make sure to enter “xotheunicorns@gmail.com” to ensure your funds go to the right place! 

  2. Each week, our team will review requests from LGBTQ+ youth and work collectively to identify great LGBTQ+ YA books based on the interests, grade level, and identity notes provided in the request.

  3. Using the online gift code funds, we’ll work with the folks at A Room of One’s Own to buy and send out the books to LGBTQ+ youth in discrete packaging. 

  4. We’ll use social media to update our community on how we’re spending the funds without compromising youth confidentiality.

We Need Administrative Support! 
The Unicorn Express is looking for a small team of folks to support with weekly online book purchasing, managing our email communications, and curating social media posts on Instagram and Twitter. We hope to assemble a team of 6-8 people to handle administrative tasks for our effort. If you love spreadsheets, communications, or social media AND have 2-3 hours a week to do some magical behind-the-scenes work, please let us know

Even if this is not your jam, make sure to follow us on social media – @xotheunicorns! 

We Need LGBTQ+ YA Experts!

We’re looking for people who read and love LGBTQ+ YA (young adult) books to help ensure each kid gets a great book that matches their interests, grade level, and provided identity markers. Additionally, we’d love to create a book list and/or list of resources for community members to use when teaching, recommending. or reading books. If you’re interested, please shoot us an email and we’ll connect with you ASAP. 

We can’t thank you enough for your support in making The Unicorn Express a reality. Thanks for signing up, sending funds, cheering us on, and working alongside us.

 

xo,
The Unicorns

 

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