Librarians lock Autauga-Prattville Public Library in protest after director fired by board
#AutaugaPrattvillePublicLibrary #BookChallenges #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BannedBooks #LetFreedomRead #FreeTheBooks #LibraryBoards
Whenever you see a news article about #BookBanning that seems unfathomable to you, it's something like this. Something that challenges rigid views on gender, sexuality, or race.
The days where book banning was about bad grammar in Junie B. Jones or potty humor in Captain Underpants aren't what we're dealing with now. Don't let book banners control the conversation by categorizing their efforts as absurd.
Seahorses are one of the very few non-mammalian creatures that get pregnant. There's a lot of similarities between seahorse pregnancies and mammalian pregnancies. But there's one very, very difference in seahorse pregnancies: it's the males that get knocked up. Here's how...
#Advocacy Roger Rosen, Chairman of Rosen Publishing, Joins Board of Directors of EveryLibrary Institute #Book Bans Interview with Dr. Nancy Pack, Director of the Alabama Public Library Service (Alabama Political Reporter) #Business Digital Science Expands Executive Team For AI Future Project MUSE Launches Initiative for Broad Expansion of Latin American University Press Books Sage Acquires […]
"The most banned comics since 2000 tell a pretty compelling story of what it is book censors dislike: queer stories, stories which tell dark truths about history, and any nudity which they can twist into claims of 'pornography' or 'explicit' content." Kelly Jensen, Book Riot
#ReadAllTheComics #FreedomToRead #BookChallenges #libcomix #comics
https://bookriot.com/comics-moms-for-liberty-call-inappropriate/
"It is the first time a governor in the country has directly spoken about the wave of censorship, book banning, and harassment being seen by schools and libraries."
The pressure to proactively self-censor collections is growing, and I'm willing to bet good money it's already influenced some publishers' acquisitions plans, esp those for whom Florida and Texas' K12 markets are too big to play chicken with.
"The 32-page book references racism Clemente sometimes endured."
Florida, man. 😦
Their ridiculous CRT guidelines are totally subjective, purposefully crafted to drive self-censorship under threat of felony charges. #cmonson
A large Florida school district has pulled an illustrated children’s biography of Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente off its shelves to determine whether it is “developmentally appropriate for student use.” Duval County Public Schools, which includes the city of Jacksonville, said in a news release it is “taking further steps
"The primary goals are more pay equity and gender and racial diversity. Pages and circulation specialists, for example, make far less than librarians… The growing movement nationwide to censors books also spurred action among library workers."
#LibraryLabor #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BookBans #BookChallenges
via Workers move to unionize at Ferndale Area District Library as censorship grows nationwide https://www.metrotimes.com/news/workers-move-to-unionize-at-ferndale-area-district-library-as-censorship-grows-nationwide-31810178
Workers at the Ferndale Area District Library have united to join a union as libraries across the nation are coming under attack by far-right advocates of censorship. Of the 22 eligible workers, 17 have agreed to join the Newspaper Guild of Detroit.
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