Why BIFC?

I grew up in a time when kids were given the freedom to explore—different ideas, different books, different ways of thinking. We wandered into libraries and came out with books our parents had never heard of. We asked questions. We challenged assumptions. We learned to think for ourselves.

That freedom shaped who I am.

Now, in my “advanced years” (let’s call it that), I’m watching the government and far-right groups dictate morality for everyone else. They’re banning books. They’re deciding what kids can read, what teachers can teach, what stories are “acceptable.” They’re wrapping censorship in the language of “parental rights” while stripping away the actual freedom to learn and grow.

It’s not about protecting kids. It’s about control.

Florida has become ground zero for this authoritarian garbage. Ron DeSantis and his Moms for Liberty allies have turned public schools into ideological battlegrounds, removing thousands of books because they mention racism, LGBTQ+ people, or anything that makes them uncomfortable. They call it “protecting children.” I call it what it is: fascism dressed up as family values.

I’m too old and too pissed off to stay quiet.

BIFC—Banned In Florida Club—is my response. It’s where we mock the censors, expose the hypocrisy, track every banned book, and fight back against the people trying to erase inconvenient truths. It’s a community for people who believe that freedom means the freedom to read, to think, and to question—not the freedom to control what everyone else can access.

If you grew up loving libraries, hating bullies, and believing that knowledge is power, this is your club.

Welcome to the resistance against book bans, moral panic, and DeSantis-style authoritarianism.

Join us. Read freely. Mock relentlessly.

—Robbie Blue