The Oxford Commakaze #408 with The Giver. Photo courtesy DCPL.

For Banned Books Week this year, the D.C. Public Library has teamed up with a group that may seem like an unusual ally: the DC Rollergirls.

For the next week, D.C. public libraries will be handing out trading cards that feature a Rollergirl and her favorite banned book. Today, for example, libraries will hand out a card featuring Majority Whips and National Maulers member The Oxford Commakaze and her favorite banned book, The Giver.

Martha Saccocio of DCPL said the collaboration came about thanks to an employee at the Mt. Pleasant library, who’s a Rollergirl fan. She said the Rollergirls have done some one-off fundraising for the library foundation in the past.

For this year’s Banned Books Week, the library wanted to distribute trading cards, an idea Saccocio had seen done in Kansas. She thought the DC Rollergirls would be “a good hook.”

Each library gets 50 of each card, which are only handed out for one day. On Sunday, select DC Rollergirls will be at the Martin Luther King Library to talk about censorship and their favorite book that has been banned.

“We’re hoping it’s gonna catch on,” Saccocio said.

Banned Books Week will also feature nightly film screenings, a teen public speaking workshop, a scavenger hunt and discussions. Learn more here.