This: 
@noethematt.bsky.social on Bluesky: "It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse."
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/texas-bookstores-obscene-books-20290932.php
#bookbans #Texas #GOP #NateSchatzline
That's all we've ever been allowed to teach. And the repression started well before Trump was elected.
Good luck teaching anything even remotely supportive of the Arab or Muslim experience. Forget anything that even mentions the word Palestine. And that's in the "liberal" San Francisco Bay Area.
There are already other places in the U.S., like Florida, where you can be fired simply for saying the word "Gay."
And who remembers hearing anything in school about Marx, socialism, anarchism, that wasn't completely negative? Anything about MLK's support of labor unions and opposition to the Vietnam War? General Strikes? The Tulsa pogrom? The Battle of Blair Mountain or the Great Train Strike of 1877 (the 2 largest insurrections and 2 largest labor uprisings in the U.S. since the Civil War)???
Dozens of books banned from school libraries and from the curriculum.
"On April 3, 2025, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress in support of the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) following Executive Order 14238, signed on March 14, which calls for the dismantling of IMLS. HarperCollins is notably missing from this list of publishers."
"We demand to know why HarperCollins did NOT sign this letter and what they plan to do to support IMLS and all libraries moving forward."
"Author and AABB member Michael Leali has drafted an open letter to HarperCollins with this request. We need signatures from authors, illustrators, librarians, booksellers, literary agents, educators, and industry professionals in support of this message. If you are willing to add your name to the list of signees, please complete this form by Monday, April 28, 2025."
#WritingCommunity #Publishing #IMLS #BookBans #libraries #fascism
"The main issue I have with this is that these bannings and challenges send a clear message to #queer kids and kids of color: We would rather not think about you, learn about you, or accept you."
Banned books and white Christian nationalism: Robert P. Jones in discussion with Jen Rubin
"I'm afraid that if we're counting on white Evangelicals to pump the brakes, we shouldn't be holding our breath"
#TheContrarian #PRRI #RobertPJones #evangelical #christian #bookbans #usnavy #navalacademy #censorship #immigration #cruelty #ChristianNationalism
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/banned-books-and-white-christian
Descárgalo Gratis
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Noem%C3%AD_Sarri%C3%B3n_Pues_la_Poes%C3%ADa_es_mi_salvaci%C3%B3n?id=HUo3EQAAQBAJ
#book #books #bookstodon #booker #bookreview #BookLovers #booksky #bookBans #BookPublishing #eBook #booktodon #bookworm #bookish #bookstagram #bookclub #booktok #bookstadon #booklover #BookDiscussion #santjordi #DiadadeSantJordi
School board member admits to banning books without reading them, faces lawsuit
Imagine living in a neighborhood where someone takes all the children's & YA #books out of the #Little_Free_Library and leaves one religious book
#75248 #TX #BookBans
What the cuss?
'My research demonstrates that UK school librarians are facing equivalent levels of distress and hostility in the face of book ban challenges such as these.'
Librarians in the UK are coming under increased pressure to take books off the shelves:
#books #reading #writing #libraries #censorship #BookBans #USPol #bookstodon @bookstodon
It's appalling to think that this can happen in the UK too. My kids are grown now, but anyone with kids still in school might want to follow up to support their school libraries against such obnoxious behaviour
ABC: "Military academies criticized for removing DEI-related books from libraries."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-academies-criticized-removing-dei-related-books-libraries/story?id=120688074
'Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
'Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.'
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #bookbans #Hegseth #wokebashing #censorshitp #chasseAuxWokes @bookstodon
#BookBans #Theatre # DMV #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
Censorship and book bans are a thing for the MAGA crowd. Here in the DMV there's a new play called BAD BOOKS at the Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, MD. Its about the unforeseen consequences of a mother trying to get a book banned and the librarian who lent it to her son fired.
Good story telling. It runs until May 4th.
https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/on-stage/explore/bad-books/
Update. "Gone is 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of 'Mein Kampf' by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy-banned-books.html
@johnismay reports these and many other examples that would strain credulity even in a B movie.
“These demands to remove and restrict books and other library materials are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment,” read the ALA’s 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, published on Monday. “The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.”
#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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"72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library Association (ALA). Just 16% of ban attempts were made by parents, while 5% were brought forward by individual library users."
~ Ella Creamer
#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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