Ellen Oh

@elloecho
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I write kids and teens books. CEO and founding member of #WeNeedDiverseBooks. I have opinions but they are all mine.
ABOUT MEellenoh.com
If you’re new to Mastodon, you may at some point find that you’re being pressured to put your posts behind a content warning (CW). Although CWs make sense for things like images of violence or nudity, some people are bullying others to put CWs on discussions of politics, racism, etc.
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I wrote a thing on the dangers of Book Banning and Censorship. It is part of a speech I gave to the School LIbrary journal summit.

"This movement to ban and soft censor (quietly pull or not purchase) books is extremely dangerous. They are deliberately targeting diverse books, in particular - LGBTQ+ and BIPOC, because this is a movement to silence historically marginalized voices. "
https://at.tumblr.com/elloellenoh/the-dangers-of-current-book-bans-and-censorship-in/sglm5h831sb1

Is anybody else confused by all these different platforms? I grabbed elloecho on HIVE and CounterSocial also. So if you are there please find me. But I've just started to figure out Mastodon, not sure if I have the energy for more new stuff. sigh.

RT @[email protected]

day 4 of the @[email protected] strike!!

the amount of support we've gotten from the industry and beyond is truly incredible & now it's time for @[email protected] to STEP UP.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/julia_jay12/status/1592567023179120640

Julia Johnson on Twitter

“day 4 of the @hcpunion strike!! the amount of support we've gotten from the industry and beyond is truly incredible & now it's time for @HarperCollins to STEP UP.”

Twitter
You can hate a book, badmouth a book, leave horrible poop gif reviews of a book (have had that happen!), and even use it for toilet paper. But stop it with the banning and censoring! Marginalized writers never said ban classic books! We said, include diverse books! And yet here we are with book banning and soft censorship frenzy in this country. This is dangerous. Because we all know that first they take away your books, and then everything else.
Wow, I feel like if I wrote a book about a musky evil billionaire, no one would believe anyone could be that bad. And yet here we are...
So.... mastodon is like the safe place to watch twitter implode without getting hit with flying rubble, right?
Errr, so when you switch servers you have to refollow everyone? argh...
I have switched servers for what I hope is the last time! Although, I've learned quite a lot in the process!
So introducing myself again!
I'm Ellen Oh, I write #kidlit and #YAlit and edited a few anthologies. I'm CEO and a founding member of #WeNeedDiverseBooks. I'm really worried about the current bookbans and soft censorship targeted at school libraries. Hoping to connect w/ all my peeps here again and meet new folks!