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My latest newsletter is out, with a section about the #tennnessee #bookban (i.e. the book purge), noting those groups against it, like the #ALA and @glaad, and those which have not said anything! https://historyhermann.substack.com/i/179676067/preserving-knowledge

#SCOTUS refuses to address book ban case in Little v Llano County.
#BookBan #BookBanning #llano #TexasPol #TXPol
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/99256-supreme-court-denies-petition-to-hear-little-v-llano-county.html

READING THE CLASSICS, except in some states. #BookBan #Classics #Literature

http://teepee12.com/2025/12/10/reading-the-classics-2/

In mehreren konservativen US-Bundesstaaten werden derzeit wieder tausende Bücher aus Schulbibliotheken entfernt. Betroffen sind vor allem Werke zu #Rassismus, #LGBTQ Themen und Geschichte 👉 taz.de/!6124004/ #bookban #USA

Political Satire: Banning My Own Book

And buying a Learjet in 2021:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=182

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#satire #bookban #bookbanning

Political Satire: Banning My Own Book

And buying a Learjet in 2021:

PEN America warns of rise in books 'systematically removed from school libraries'

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5559158/book-bans-challenges-pen-america

List of banned books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

Below, Decameron. Banned in Australia from 1927 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1973.

#bookban #libraries

Decameron. Preceded by: Girolamo Squarzafico: Life of Boccaccio. - Printed in Venice: by Giovanni & Gregorio de Gregorii brothers, MCCCCLXXXXII on June XX. - 144 c.; [*]⁶-1, a⁸, b-y⁶, z⁴; fol. - Typographical mark in the explicit.

At the top center, an intricate architectural frame encloses a scene depicting ten elegantly dressed figures—seven women and three men—seated in a lush garden under an arched trellis, representing the storytellers of The Decameron. Each figure is identified by name, including Pampinea, Fiammetta, and Filostrato, among others. The scene reflects the book’s central motif of storytelling as a refuge from hardship.

The borders are adorned with classical motifs—cherubs, vines, masks, and nude figures symbolizing vitality and art. Below the text block, a frieze portrays playful mythological creatures and dancing figures, while a typographical printer’s mark appears at the bottom center, signifying the craftsmanship of the de Gregorii brothers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron#/media/File:Boccaccio_-_Decameron,_MCCCCLXXXXII_ad_di_XX_de_giugno_-_3852856_Scan00015.tif

Eine Analyse zeigt: "Book bans" in den USA scheinen von Personen veranlasst die nicht lesen (können?) und schlicht rassistisch und Queer-feindlich sind:

https://theconversation.com/many-book-bans-could-be-judging-titles-mainly-by-their-covers-255807

#woke #USA #queer #lgbtqiaplus #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #bookBan #Book_Ban

This is Alberta's second comic book ban. Notice how Danielle Smith's original examples of books to ban were queer-themed comics? Perhaps she was aiming for a comic book ban to begin with, and expanded it with the intention of creating backlash and scaling it back down to her original intention, fearing comparison to Alberta's first and unpopular comic book ban? Normalizing the anti-comic sentiment felt by pearl-clutchers of the 60's. Not that any of the comics she seeks to ban fits under her descriptions of "sexual acts", either. It's all viewed under a homophobic lens, and this is exactly why we don't censor.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-book-censorship-history-1.7571735

#abpoli #bookban #education

Supreme Court dismisses plea to ban Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/sc-refuses-plea-to-ban-salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses-lmpcl7y3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SalmanRushdie #TheSatanicVerses #SupremeCourt #BookBan #India

I saw this picture of Edmonton's beloved MLA, Janice Irwin, wearing a "Viciously Compliant" t-shirt, quoting Danielle Smith to the School Board on how they followed her book ban legislation. The name on the file was "janice-irwin-vigorously-compliant", which adds an extra layer to the joke of quoting Smith's fumble of the term "maliciously compliant", by showing us more ways we can misquote this term as an inspiring rally call for solidarity. :D

#abpoli #yeg #bookban #education

Image of Edmonton's beloved MLA, Janice Irwin, wearing a red shirt with white lettering which reads, "Viciously Compliant" on top of a fist held up in solidarity.

Danielle Smith says it's not a book ban... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPr3O3IlUbY #politics #Alberta #22Minutes #CBC #bookban

„Will man die Demokratie verteidigen, muss man die Unabhängigkeit von Bibliotheken verteidigen.“, so dbv-Vorsitzende Antje Theise zum Internationalen Tag der Demokratie in der Presseerklärung des dbv. #Demokratie #Zensur #BookBan

It's exactly like I keep saying over and over. Those books that Danielle Smith set as an example to ban do not meet any definition of "sexual content", but are being banned because they're QUEER. Period. No matter how much they rework the legislation, they can't cherry pick only queer books without banning straight books, unless they ditch the facade of "sexual content" and simply say that they're banning queer themes.

https://www.theprogressreport.ca/progress_report_361

#abpoli #bookban #education

After a messy launch in late August, the UCP have tightened the official scope of their book ban—according to them, back to the graphic novels they initially said they wanted to keep out of school libraries.

But the goalposts may shift again soon enough, as the ministerial order as written doesn’t even seem to apply to the texts that the UCP have declared as their targets.

Nicolaides’ announcement drew expected criticism for its obvious targeting of queer content, but what really appears to have kept it from sticking is that the first order was so loosely defined that it would ban uncontroversial texts like 1984 and A Handmaid's Tale. When the Edmonton Public School Board applied the rules as written, and announced their removal list would include even right-wing favourite Atlas Shrugged, Premier Smith decried their “malicious compliance” and sent the list back to Nicolaides for revision.

But Nicolaides may have to return to the drawing-board again if that’s his goal. According to the new ministerial order, only visual depictions of “sexual acts” are banned, which the ministerial order defines as not including:

“an activity or action that is not distinctly sexual in nature, such as physical contact related to medical conditions, examinations or treatment, actions or activities related to biological functions or processes like puberty, menstruation, pregnancy or breastfeeding, or actions or activities that may be related to sexual acts, such as kissing or handholding.”

#Education is not the enemy. - @lisab0923.bsky.social discusses #RonDeSantis and #DonaldTrump fangirl #Alberta "premier" #DanielleSmith and her little #BookBan that does NOTHING but manufacture rage. On the upside, when she announced it? Orders for those books SKYROCKETED 🇨🇦 youtu.be/dvcOF71pVmY?...

Much ado about nothing #ucp #b...

Der Buchladen im Nauwieser Viertel stellt gerade im Schaufenster explizit Bücher aus, die an US-amerikanischen Schulen verboten wurden.

#BookBan #Saarbrücken #bookstodon

Schaufenster des Buchladens mit Hinweisschild auf den Book Ban und Büchern wir "Gender Queer", "Eine wie Alaska", "Deachenläufer", "On The Road", "Milk And Honey"

Hinweisschild:

„Book Ban in den USA
Bücher sind in den Vereinigten Staaten massivem Angriff ausgesetzt. Allein im Schuljahr 2023-2024 zählte PEN America mehr als 10.000 Buchverbote an öffentlichen Schulen. Und überall sind es die Bücher, die lange um einen Platz im Regal gekämpft haben, die ins Visier geraten. Bücher von Autor*innen aus marginalisierten Gruppen, von LGBTQ+-Autor*innen, von Frauen. Bücher über Rassismus, Sexualität, Geschlecht, Geschichte.

The UCP blinked, but keep the pressure on! This is just a pause.

Let's be clear about one thing. When the Premier said, "No, not those books", what she meant was that her rules were meant to find and discriminate against books with queer themes, like the ones in her own "examples", and were not meant to apply to all books without discrimination. Because her target was 2SLGBTQIA+. Anything else is "my rules do not apply".

You can expect that when she "reworks" the legislation, it will be along the lines of specifying "abnormal" or "unnatural" sexual content, so as to not include cis heteronormalcy.

I did my due diligence and looked at the books she originally proposed to be banned. They were all queer-themed, and largely from Indigenous perspectives. The only thing the schools did was show that her rules apply to many classics which are considered perfectly "acceptable" by heteronormal standards, when you remove the homophobic discrimination.

And she even polled Albertans who clearly stated that educators and school librarians should make these decisions, not the government. She didn't like the result of the poll, so she simply ignored it.

Similar to the suggestion her new Citizen Initiative referendum questions should not be binding, for when the Forever Canadian question shows that Albertans wish to stay in Canada and not separate.

#abpoli #bookban #education #transrightsarehumanrights #transrights #gayrights

BREAKING
Alberta government pauses ban on school library books with sexual content
Policy was set to come into effect Oct. 1
Posted: September 02, 2025 12:35 PM MDT
Last Updated: 16 Minutes ago

The Canadian Press

Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says in an email to school boards that the government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries.

More to come.

...More than 200 titles made list, including novels like The Handmaid's Tale

Nicholas Frew · CBC News · Posted: Aug 29, 2025 12:08 PM MDT | Last Updated: August 29

Image: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday that the Edmonton Public School Board's list of books to be taken off school shelves showed 'a little vicious compliance' to her government's directive. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

The internally distributed list, which CBC News obtained Thursday, was in response to a provincial government directive to identify books that are not age-appropriate and remove them from school library shelves.

But the list included titles like The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple, The Godfather and Jaws. Books from authors like George R. R. Martin, Sarah J. Maas and Maya Angelou are also on the list.

"Edmonton Public is clearly doing a little vicious compliance over what the direction is," Smith said during an unrelated news conference.

The point of this work is to keep graphic, sexually explicit content out of elementary schools, she said.

"If they need us to hold their hand through the process to identify what kind of materials are appropriate … we will more than happily work with them to work through their list, one by one, so we can be super clear about what it is we're trying to do," Smith said.

Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools, Margaret Atwood's response #bookban #handmaidstale

https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretatwood/p/handmaids-tale-banned-in-edmonton

Today Premier Smith doubles down on what the UCP does best: pointing fingers.

Today, the finger is pointing at EPSB for doing *exactly* what the Minister asked them to do.

Of course the three fingers pointing back at them are the more revealing ones:
1. Clearly the Minister of Education isn’t capable of writing clear instructions. Perhaps the problem is his incompetence.
2. They keep lying about graphic images of sex available to elementary age students, which is patently not true.
3. The true purpose of the order was not to limit sexually explicit material, but to specifically target LGBTQ+ content in libraries.

Thank you to EPSB for making them say *exactly* what they really mean.

#ABPoli #UCP #BookBan #EPSB

Margaret Atwood responds to Alberta's book ban with a satirical short story for teenagers

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has released a satirical short story that criticizes the book ban imposed by Alberta's provincial government. The new rule, which requires school libraries to remove materials with explicit sexual content by October 1, led to the removal of Atwood's famous novel, *The... [More info]

🇨🇦 Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's school library books ban with satirical story
In a social media post on Sunday, Atwood said since the literary classic is no longer suitable in Alberta's schools, she has written a short story for 17-year olds about two "very, very good children" named John and Mary. Read about it here👇

#Alberta #Conservative #Books #BookBan #Canada #Canpoli #Politics
#UPC

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/margaret-atwood-takes-aim-at-albertas-school-library-books-ban-with-satirical-story/article_c92a8b1f-7ea9-5135-be18-b5cb0bafbf45.html

#BookBan

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