Amanda Jones @abmack33 is "That Librarian" who stands up against #bookbans in the US - more important than ever now during #PrideMonth
Her book, part #memoir and part manifesto, has now been added to our #library collection. Find it here:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1900831007
I think now might be a very good time to read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" if you never have.
#RayBradbury
#books #bookstodon #sciencefiction #BookBanning #library #Fahrenheit451
"Miami schools weren't great when I went through them, and now I have a lot more concerns about schools in #Florida, especially in St. Augustine, where we live. When we looked at schools in Florida, I noticed that some library shelves were bare. It was a poignant visual representation of policies such as #BookBanning.
"There are also tons of funding cuts in Florida." Insider https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/im-moving-family-florida-connecticut-175402309.html
Well, #Alberta's #Banning #Library #Books.
Sorry, "they're creating province wide standards to ensure age appropriate of library material after dozens of books containing explicit sexual content were found in #Calgary and #Edmonton #Schools.
What are the "sexually explicit books" in question? Four #GraphicNovels about young people "discovering their sexual identity."
#ABPol
#CanPol
#Fascism
#BookBanning
#DanielleSmith
#AlisonBechdel
#MikeCurato
#MaiaKobabe
At Norway’s WEXFO: ‘Democracies Depend on Reading’
Europe's DemRead project—'Democracies Depend on Reading'—launches in the autumn. The World Expression Forum has an update.
The post At Norway’s WEXFO: ‘Democracies Depend on Reading’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/at-norways-wexfo-democracies-depend-on-reading/
#BookBanning #FrankfurtBookFair #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoPublish #FreedomtoRead
@indieauthors
How to Build a Voters Guide for School Board Elections #BookBanning #resistance #noncompliance #books
https://bookriot.com/how-to-build-a-voters-guide-for-school-board-elections/
IPA on Reported Moscow Arrests: ‘The Risks Publishers Now Face in Russia’
The International Publishers Association alerts its world membership to reports of Russian actions against 'LGBT propaganda.'…
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/05/ipa-on-reported-moscow-arrests-the-risks-publishers-now-face-in-russia/
#BookBanning #Censorship #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoPublish #GvantsaJobava
@indieauthors
The Bookseller’s Son by Bob Seay is a novel about legacy, the cost of silence, and the price of speaking up. It explores who gets to decide which voices are heard—and what happens when a community refuses to let them be silenced.
#books #bookbanning #fiction
https://www.amazon.com/Booksellers-Son-Bob-Seay/dp/B0F6NLZPTQ?&linkCode=sl1&tag=coloradoautho-20&linkId=9070878c75c032464af4772c248af35e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
"Jones is impatient with the outsize expectations laid at the feet of librarians. She stresses that the extent of what librarians owe their patrons, including the care they provide to those who wander in through their library doors, is elastic but not infinite."
Melina Moe considers #AmandaJones’s #ThatLibrarian: The Fight Against #BookBanning in America
#USpol #bookbans #censorship #wokebashing #moralPanics #cyberharassment #memoirs #libraries #books @bookstodon
The Fight Against #Book #Banning in America
#BookBanning
#Censorship #Libraries
#Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the #Culture War
Penguin Random House Leads Amicus Brief in LGBTQ+ Books Case
The US high court hears oral arguments as publishing industry parties file an amicus brief, on school exposure to LGBTQ+ themes.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/penguin-random-house-leads-amicus-brief-in-lgbtq-books-case/
#AuthorsGuild #BookBanning #Censorship #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoRead
@indieauthors
Penguin Random House Leads Amicus Brief in LTGBQ+ Books Case
The US high court hears oral arguments as publishing industry parties file an amicus brief, on school exposure to LGBTQ+ themes.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/penguin-random-house-leads-amicus-brief-in-ltgbq-books-case/
#AuthorsGuild #BookBanning #Censorship #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoRead
@indieauthors
#Texas Freedom to Read Project reports that #Lamar Consolidated has blocked a digital resource on the State of Virginia because the state seal shows a breast.
#BookBanning #AdmittedlyStretchingBook
https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_safe
The only reason to ban/remove a book or quash an idea is because you know your own ideas are flawed and you're afraid of that reality.
Either that or there's money involved. #politics #bookbanning
The latest on book bans:
#fascism #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #bookbans #bookbanning #needledickbugfuckers #fascistbigots #booksky
Two thoughts re this fascist atrocity. 1) Becky Chambers is fire. 2) Here's what Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), science fiction writer & proud U.S. Naval Academy grad, said about this kind of crap:
"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression ..."
NOTHING SAYS MAGA QUITE LIKE THE BANNING OF BOOKS
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: #banningbooks #bookbanning #books #democrats #uspol #uspolitics :
Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school librarians and teachers who provide award-winning works of literature to students.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/texas-bill-prison-teachers-librarians-books-sexual-profane-content-ban/ #BookBans #BookBanning #Censorship #Literature #Politics #Republicans #GOP #Texas #Books
