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Episode 22 with Tayler Simon
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Preach Jacobs interviews Tayler Simon, the founder of Liberation is Lit, a bookstore that focuses on liberating through literature. They discuss the pushback on literature in the education sector in South Carolina and the efforts to ban books.
Tayler explains that extreme right-wing conservatives in positions of power are behind these book bans, driven by organizations like Moms for Liberty. They also discuss the power of storytelling and how literature can be used as a form of protest and to build connections and empathy.
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