Willem van Ravesteyn
Transgender World‘I will not comply’: Tennessee librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ books
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/rutherford-library-director-refusal?1
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Kurio🌷🐝@transworld yeah a bold librarian following the american bill of rights!
These guidelines were written to ensure the lack of censorship or external policies against intellectual freedom, originally written in... (checks notes) 1939.
Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services. I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
EarlThis is not about #censorship, but about putting the material in a different part of the library.
The person "would not comply with an order to move more than 100 LGBTQ+ titles from youth sections to the adult area."
In the children's area???
@Earl @transworld it's indeed about censorship and hiding certain stories. It's about children and teen books and stories that do belong in that section. The issue is the link between LGBTIQ+ stories and mature themes.
@kurio @transworld
The library did not remove the material, right? The library board agreed to keep the material in another part of the building. But it's still there, and we taxpayers are charged for this, whether we like it or not.
Censorship would be removing content and taking it outside to be burned, like what the Roman Catholic church did to the first Bibles written in English.