This speech by Steve Hofstetter’s to the American Association of School Librarians is incredibly powerful
#book-bans
Hey #Missouri folks! If you'd like to join the fight against #BookBans and in support of #Libraries and #Librarians, you can join (as an individual or an organization) the Missouri Right to Read Coalition. There are no fees to join, and it's an excellent way to stay informed and stand up for the #FirstAmendment.
Via author Malinda Lo: "Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment."
See how:
https://www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-support-new-amendments
apologies for the paywall:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/metro/massachusetts-senate-book-ban-librarian-bill/
New Prison Mail Policies Threaten Newsletters by and for Incarcerated People
States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.
Books Unbanned: From Local Action to National Movement
https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2025/11/books-unbanned-from-local-action-to-national-movement/
#books #bookbans #bpl #BooksUnbanned #libraries #library #usa
@libraries
Au Texas, ChatGPT censure les livres en bibliothèques
https://actualitte.com/article/127228/technologie/au-texas-chatgpt-censure-les-livres-en-bibliotheques
#bibliotheque #bibliotheques #usa #bookbans #chatgpt #ia #texas #censure #automatisation
"Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."--Kelly Jensen
#BannedBooksWeek #BookBans #Libraries #Reading #FreedomToRead
Awesome! The Librarians is being shown in Calgary on Nov 23 - you know where I'll be!
The Librarians - Calgary Underground Film Festival https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/cuff-docs/2025/the-librarians/
Via Kelly Jensen: two authors of a book about book bans were told they could not talk about book bans or which books are being banned in the U.S. right now, during their presentation about their book.
https://bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
Please SHARE, especially with people in California and other "good, blue states" who can't seem to understand just how fucking widespread this plague of puritanical bullshit is.
Like many public service workers, librarians have found themselves in the crosshairs of the far right’s widespread efforts to censor material written by and about people of color and the #LGBTQ+ community.
#Libraries #bookbans #censorship
https://progressive.org/latest/the-librarians-centers-the-educators-fighting-book-bans-minton-20251024/
Free Speech Needs Free Libraries: A Joint Statement of PALCI, CARLI and Orbis Cascade Alliance
https://palci.org/free-speech-needs-free-libraries-a-joint-statement/
#libraries #library #bookbans #freespeech #intellectualfreedom #usa #bibliotheques
I really wish more people paid attention to what book bans, library purges, demonization, stalking and threatening of librarians, and the changing "education' standards championed by assholes like DeSantis mean for the future of this country.
First it was, "states rights", not slavery as the reason for the Civil War, now this.
https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/the-direct-line-from-the-red-scare-to-red-hats/
'Gender Queer,' one of the most banned books in the U.S., is getting a deluxe edition
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-queer-special-edition-release
Update. "A federal judge has ordered the Department of Defense to return nearly 600 books on race and gender to libraries at several U.S. military schools, ruling that President Donald Trump's executive orders that led to their removal likely violate the First Amendment."
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/22/DOD-school-book-ban/6501761116887/
#BookBans #Books #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
In 1971, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart published “How to Read Donald Duck,” a book-length essay critiquing Disney comics as capitalist propaganda for U.S. corporate and cultural imperialism. It became a bestseller throughout Latin America and is still considered a seminal work in cultural studies. It was first published in Valparaiso, Chile when Allende was in power. Pinochet banned it and conducted public book burnings.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #disney #anticommunism #antilabor #unionbusting #communism #witchhunt #huac #fbi #union #censorship #bookburning #BookBans #Chile #allende #pinochet #dictatorship #writer #author #books #comics @bookstadon
PBS News Hour Coverage: "Pentagon's Attempt to Ban Books Faces Backlash From Families" https://www.thirteen.org/programs/pbs-newshour/pentagon-s-attempt-to-ban-books-faces-backlash-from-families-1761261227/ #libraries #books #bookbans
A Texas federal judge has blocked the state from enforcing the key provision of a law restricting the content of school library books, calling the law's requirements "subjective, confusing and unworkable." Here's more from the San Antonio Express.
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to restore nearly 600 books to schools serving military families. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said that the Department of Defense Education Activity removed books and altered curricula "in ways that suppressed certain viewpoints and deprived students of access to ideas about race and gender," Advocate's Christopher Wiggins writes.
#Books @bookstodon #Censorship #TrumpAdministration #BookBans
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