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Paria sans portefeuille

"Jones is impatient with the outsize expectations laid at the feet of librarians. She stresses that the extent of what librarians owe their patrons, including the care they provide to those who wander in through their library doors, is elastic but not infinite."

Melina Moe considers #AmandaJones’s #ThatLibrarian: The Fight Against #BookBanning in America”

lareviewofbooks.org/article/ho

#USpol #bookbans #censorship #wokebashing #moralPanics #cyberharassment #memoirs #libraries #books @bookstodon

How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War
Los Angeles Review of Books · How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War | Los Angeles Review of BooksMelina Moe considers Amanda Jones’s “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:

@starluna @doormouse They appear to be anti-trans MAGA activists from Falmouth, who gave a presentation on this bill at a community center last night. Here's a FB post (with photos) on local reaction to the event:

facebook.com/sarah.e.murphy.18

Text of the post if you don't want to go to FB:

Residents from Falmouth and beyond packed Gus Canty Community Center inside and out last night for a presentation on "Protecting Children from Sexually Explicit Materials in Schools and Libraries," in regard to proposed Bill 2535 (H.2042) by Dee Dee Dorrington, Sue Daniels, and Pam Vidal, who provided no introductory information about themselves other than being residents of Falmouth; I'm not sure if Pam Vidal was even present.
While a peaceful protest was underway in front of the building, the room was soon over-capacity with overflow all the way down the long hallway. So many people took time from their busy lives to be there. I had to rush home from a quick birthday mental wellness escape to Maine, and I attended with the intention of listening quietly, but as a journalist/advocate who works with children and adults who have been sexually abused, I was angered by much of the disingenuous attempts to distract from the core issue: hatred and prejudice. A quick perusal of Ms. Dorrington's public Facebook page illustrates her feelings about the Transgender community, which will be the next target in this crusade, after this very obvious attempt to criminally target our library teachers, public librarians, and anyone with the education and expertise to work with minors, including museum educators. I don’t appreciate being lied to and patronized. While the term "gaslighting" has become overused, in my experience, it's accurate to describe the true intentions of this bill and last night's unsubstantiated "presentation."

The first thing I saw when I got home was Congressman Keating's defense of Senator McBride, which made me feel better for justifiably losing my temper while voicing what many of us knew going into the event. This is about hatred and fear-based ignorance. Someone in the hallway then displayed her page to the crowd, which validated my statement.
I'll be writing much more about this event, and I was glad to see The Enterprise in attendance. It's a shame the Cape Cod Times wasn't there, unless I missed them.
It was inspiring to see so many people from different walks of life coming together, once again, including dedicated educators in Falmouth Public Schools and Cape Cod public libraries, who already work tirelessly to keep our children safe, physically and emotionally. I will continue to use my platform to support them and the LGBTQ+ community...❤️📚🏳️‍⚧️🔥🇺🇸🖊🏳️‍🌈 #powerofthepen

The author is a photojournalist (falmouthstyle.com/).

The censorious activists are organizing under "Protectkids25" at facebook.com/profile.php?id=61 (comes across as a pretty obvious Project2025 callback to me).

www.facebook.comSarah Elizabeth MurphyResidents from Falmouth and beyond packed Gus Canty Community Center inside and out last night for a presentation on "Protecting Children from Sexually Explicit Materials in Schools and Libraries,"...
#MApoli#BookBanning#Libraries
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

So, by law in Hungary books with any #LGBTQ content have to be sold with the warning "Non-traditional content!"

On top of being sinister, his system is also:

1. Ironically useful, because Hungarian bookshops didn't have queer sections before, so the label actually makes queer content a lot easier to find

2. Low key surreal when the label is put on folktales, Greek mythology, or biographies like Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls...

3. Useless and dumb

#bookstodon#books#BookBanning
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Juggling With Eggs

The banning of books has been a #Republican fascist theme for some time now.

There are many books being banned right now that won’t get as much publicity as Julianne Moore’s Freckleface Strawberry.

But that doesn’t make taking a book about a child being bullied due to their appearance off school and library shelves any less wrong.

#Trump
#BookBanning

theguardian.com/books/2025/feb

The Guardian · A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administrationBy Ella Creamer
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DoomsdaysCW

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma...

Oklahoma Revokes License of #Teacher Who Gave Class #QRCode to #BrooklynLibrary in #BookBan Protest

A former public high school teacher in Oklahoma had her teaching license revoked by the State Board of Education Thursday for providing students a link to a list of banned books posted online two years prior

By Associated Press, Aug. 23, 2024

"Oklahoma's education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words 'Books the state didn't want you to read.'

"The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of #SummerBoismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books.

"An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, told reporters after the board meeting that they would seek to overturn the decision.

“I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access with my students,” the former teacher posted on X. “My livelihood will never be as important as someone’s life or right to read what they want.'

[...]

"Teachers in public schools across the country continue to face scrutiny at the local and state level as lawmakers in Republican-led statehouses push forward with book bans and restrict curriculum on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality such as in #Iowa and #Utah. "

Original article:
usnews.com/news/best-states/ok

Archived version:
archive.ph/ArZoU#selection-109

#BannedBooks#Censorship#BookBanning
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DoomsdaysCW

HT @PamelaBarroway

@Free_Press In #NewJersey we just passed a law to short-circuit #book-banning BS: the Freedom to Read Act.

A new law enacted in New Jersey will limit how a book can be banned in schools and public libraries, and protect librarians from lawsuits.

By David Matthau, Updated Dec. 10, 2024

whyy.org/articles/new-jersey-b
#bookstodon #books #bookbans #libraries #librarians
#Censorship #FreedomToReadAct #NJLibraries #NJLibrarians #BannedBooks #BookBanning

WHYY · A new law in N.J. limits the banning of books in schools and public librariesBy David Matthau
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Preston MacDougall

#Murfreesboro is the county seat of #BookBanning Rutherford County, #Tennessee. It's a city that has a #university building named after the founder of the #KKK and was very pro-#Trump in the #2024election.

#Dillards is among the brand name companies that so strongly supports #Trump that consumer groups boycotted it.

Murfreesboro supports Trump. Dillard's supports Trump. But they don't support each other. 👉 dnj.com/story/news/2024/11/13/

This is typical in a #cult where only the cult leader matters.

Photo accompanying a U.S. News & World Report story about companies being boycotted because of their strong support of Trump. It shows a family going into a Dillard's store.
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