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From the Library of Congress: Elton John’s monumental album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Chicago’s debut “Chicago Transit Authority,” the original cast recording of Broadway’s “Hamilton,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black,” Microsoft’s reboot chime, and the soundtrack to the Minecraft video game phenomenon have been selected as some of the defining […]
"For Some Disabled Protestors, 'Hands Off' Went Virtual"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/hands-off-virtual-zooms-disability-covid/
“We know we have to teach everyone how to include us"
#USPol #HandsOff #Disability #Accessibility #LongCovid #MEcfs #ChronicIllness
Each year during the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week,” librarians display famous books that have been challenged in the past as well as the most frequently challenged books in the present day. This book-centric approach seems to be the standard. By focusing on the books themselves, however, do librarians tacitly concede that these books are indeed controversial?
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/rethinking-banned-books-exhibits/
#censorship #bookbans #usa #library #libraries #bibliotheques #censure
New evidence that #BookBans backfire.
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2024.0716
"We find that the circulations of banned books increased by 12%, on average, compared with comparable nonbanned titles after the ban. We also find that banning a book in a state leads to increased circulation in states without bans…Books with higher visibility on social media following the ban see an increase in consumption."
PS: It's not clear how much book bans would backfire without protests and publicity. But it's now clear that protests and publicity help them backfire. Keep it up.
#Books #Censorship #Libraries #Reading #SocialMedia #USPol #USPolitics
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