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Looking for some good books that will expand your young person’s mind?

Have a look at the ones the idiots in the Alberta government find threatening.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-school-book-ban-order-graphic-novels-9.7118495

#censorship #abpoli #books

By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News

Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramatic retellings of mythology, access to information request results show.

CBC
Mar 9 at 4:13pmWeb
Show threadPapyrusBrigade has movedMar 9
@chriscorrigan Indeed. I hadn't realised a biography of Camus would be that interesting. Adding that to the reading pile.
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 9
@PapyrusBrigade @chriscorrigan Not content with dangerous thoughtcrime, Camus was also a brutal food critic:
https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2014/sartre-food-diary.html
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

Philosopher's Diary Reveals an Obsession with Food

Reed Magazine
Show thread@ChrisCorrigan has movedMar 10
@PapyrusBrigade someone should put all these on a Goodreads list owned by Danielle Smith.
Show threadKevin RussellMar 9

@chriscorrigan

How does a gay kid stay gay despite eight thousand books and 95% of movies telling them how great cis sex is during all waking hours? I mean have you seen Sleepless in Seattle?

But 7 gay positive books on 20,000 feet of library shelves make a cis person gay?

#nazisBanBooks #cult #cultists #librariescreatecivilization
#libraries #bookbans #orgasm #lgbtq2i #lgbt

Show thread@ChrisCorrigan has movedMar 10
@kevinrns teh gay is very powerful magik!
Show threadScribblersEmporiumMar 9
@chriscorrigan
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Mar 9
@chriscorrigan … of course, the list includes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, V for Vendetta ...
#bannedBooks
Show threadanyGouldMar 9
@chriscorrigan What blew my mind is the "oh, we had to remove vol. 3, but the other 8 volumes are OK" (or the even funnier "vol 1-11 aren't safe, but 12,15,16, and 17 are OK"). Oh, and make sure to ban Alison Bechdel - can't be having women talk to each other in media unless it's about boys! 🙄
Show thread@ChrisCorrigan has movedMar 10
@anyGould I’ll bet the discussions about graphic novels amongst Alberta Cabinet members rival high school Reddit flame wars for nuance and opinion!
Show threadanyGouldMar 10
@chriscorrigan If only - I suspect most of them haven't read any of them at all.