Pink has announced that she plans to give away 2,000 banned books during her four concert dates in Florida.
The 44-year-old pop superstar is using her platform by teaming up with national free speech organization, PEN America, to hand out copies of novels that appeared in the organization's banned list.
The first 1,000 fans that attend the Miami, Sunrise, and Orlando stops of the singer-songwriter’s Trustfall Tour on Tuesday (November 14), Wednesday (November 15), and Saturday (November 18) will walk away with new stories that contain themes of racial and sexual identity.
"Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child, and that’s why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools," Pink said in a press release. "It’s especially hateful to see authorities take aim at books about race and racism and against LGBTQ authors and those of color."
"We have made so many strides toward equality in this country and no one should want to see this progress reversed. This is why I am supporting PEN America in its work and why I agree with them: no more banned books," she added.
The books that the 'Just Give Me A Reason' musician - whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore Hart - has chosen to give away are The Family Book by Todd Parr, The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman, Beloved by Toni Morrison, or one of the texts from the Girls Who Code series.
Her collaboration with the organization comes as Florida enforced laws that put LGBTQ+ and free speech rights at risk. Back in July 2022, the state passed the Individual Freedom Act, and this limits how systemic racism and discrimination are taught in schools and the workplace, per the ACLU.
In addition to this, Governor Ron DeSantis has also been working hard to limit free speech in education, such as signing the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which restricts discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in schools.
PEN America revealed that the state now ranks first as the most prohibited books in school classrooms and libraries in the country and has over 40% of all banned books nationwide, per PEOPLE.
The 'So What' singer opened up about why she’s using her platform to give away banned books in an Instagram live with author Amanda Gorman, 25, and PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel.
Watch her livestream below:The mom-of-two explained that she is a "voracious reader" and can't imagine "my own parents telling me what my kids can and cannot read, let alone someone else’s parents, let alone someone else that doesn’t even have children that are deciding what my children can read," as cited by CNN.
Nossel also said on the livestream that she was grateful that the singer decided to join the cause, sharing: "This is a wave that is taking over our country, our schools, our libraries."
"[They] are going after books about children of color, stories of LGBTQ families, books about babies, about animals," she continued. "This is censorship in its purest form. It is meant to suppress narratives that we need here as a pluralistic society and so we have to push back."