#bookbanning — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bookbanning, aggregated by home.social.
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Deer Park Community: PLEASE attend the Deer Park ISD School Board Mtg Mon. 27 APR '26 6:30PM at the Education Support Center, 2800 Texas Ave, Deer Park, TX to oppose the efforts of Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) and far-right conservatives trying to #ban #library #books. #NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #bans #BookBans #BookBanning #HTX #Houston #TX #Texas
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Deer Park Community: PLEASE attend the Deer Park ISD School Board Mtg Mon. 27 APR '26 6:30PM at the Education Support Center, 2800 Texas Ave, Deer Park, TX to oppose the efforts of Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) and far-right conservatives trying to #ban #library #books. #NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #bans #BookBans #BookBanning #HTX #Houston #TX #Texas
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Deer Park Community: PLEASE attend the Deer Park ISD School Board Mtg Mon. 27 APR '26 6:30PM at the Education Support Center, 2800 Texas Ave, Deer Park, TX to oppose the efforts of Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) and far-right conservatives trying to #ban #library #books. #NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #bans #BookBans #BookBanning #HTX #Houston #TX #Texas
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Deer Park Community: PLEASE attend the Deer Park ISD School Board Mtg Mon. 27 APR '26 6:30PM at the Education Support Center, 2800 Texas Ave, Deer Park, TX to oppose the efforts of Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) and far-right conservatives trying to #ban #library #books. #NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #bans #BookBans #BookBanning #HTX #Houston #TX #Texas
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Deer Park Community: PLEASE attend the Deer Park ISD School Board Mtg Mon. 27 APR '26 6:30PM at the Education Support Center, 2800 Texas Ave, Deer Park, TX to oppose the efforts of Rep. Briscoe Cain (R) and far-right conservatives trying to #ban #library #books. #NationalLibraryWeek #Libraries #bans #BookBans #BookBanning #HTX #Houston #TX #Texas
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Book Industry Coalition In Opposition Of The Federal Book Banning Effort
National Library Week April 19=25, 2026 Publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, parent groups, and literary organizations—including PW—have collectively signed a statement against House Resolution 7661, a proposed book banning legislation known as the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, introduced by its sponsors.HR 7661 aims to modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prevent federal education funds from being allocated to public classrooms and school […] -
Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill
"The bill creates strong incentives for schools to remove or avoid a wide range of books and materials," wrote PRH SVP Skip Dye in a letter to lawmakers, adding that, if passed, the law would also force educators and librarians to self-censor, resulting in "further marginalization of vulnerable communities.”
The post Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/penguin-random-house-urges-u-s-congress-to-reject-republican-book-banning-bill/#BookBanning #Diversity #FreedomtoRead #Librarians #PenguinRandomHouse
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Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill
"The bill creates strong incentives for schools to remove or avoid a wide range of books and materials," wrote PRH SVP Skip Dye in a letter to lawmakers, adding that, if passed, the law would also force educators and librarians to self-censor, resulting in "further marginalization of vulnerable communities.”
The post Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/penguin-random-house-urges-u-s-congress-to-reject-republican-book-banning-bill/#BookBanning #Diversity #FreedomtoRead #Librarians #PenguinRandomHouse
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Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill
"The bill creates strong incentives for schools to remove or avoid a wide range of books and materials," wrote PRH SVP Skip Dye in a letter to lawmakers, adding that, if passed, the law would also force educators and librarians to self-censor, resulting in "further marginalization of vulnerable communities.”
The post Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/penguin-random-house-urges-u-s-congress-to-reject-republican-book-banning-bill/#BookBanning #Diversity #FreedomtoRead #Librarians #PenguinRandomHouse
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Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill
"The bill creates strong incentives for schools to remove or avoid a wide range of books and materials," wrote PRH SVP Skip Dye in a letter to lawmakers, adding that, if passed, the law would also force educators and librarians to self-censor, resulting in "further marginalization of vulnerable communities.”
The post Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/penguin-random-house-urges-u-s-congress-to-reject-republican-book-banning-bill/#BookBanning #Diversity #FreedomtoRead #Librarians #PenguinRandomHouse
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They didn’t come with matches
Didn’t come red-faced
Didn’t pound the table
Like men in old stories
Who wanted the world smaller by forceNo, this was cleaner than that...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-shelf-she-wouldnt-move-poetry-526e76d1b7c3?sk=6854d931cef205031bc73ac0390df57e#LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #USPolitics #Libraries #BookBanning
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
I am very wary of those individuals who are neither writers nor editors nor even, in some cases, readers, who feel that they have the right to apply their own moral criteria to the books in public and school libraries. I have enormous respect and admiration and love for the librarians who are rising up to protest this, because they are putting their very jobs on the line.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censorship #communitystandards #control #freedomofthought #intellectualfreedom #librarian #library #moralcode #power #suppression
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
I am very wary of those individuals who are neither writers nor editors nor even, in some cases, readers, who feel that they have the right to apply their own moral criteria to the books in public and school libraries. I have enormous respect and admiration and love for the librarians who are rising up to protest this, because they are putting their very jobs on the line.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censorship #communitystandards #control #freedomofthought #intellectualfreedom #librarian #library #moralcode #power #suppression
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
I am very wary of those individuals who are neither writers nor editors nor even, in some cases, readers, who feel that they have the right to apply their own moral criteria to the books in public and school libraries. I have enormous respect and admiration and love for the librarians who are rising up to protest this, because they are putting their very jobs on the line.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censorship #communitystandards #control #freedomofthought #intellectualfreedom #librarian #library #moralcode #power #suppression
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
I am very wary of those individuals who are neither writers nor editors nor even, in some cases, readers, who feel that they have the right to apply their own moral criteria to the books in public and school libraries. I have enormous respect and admiration and love for the librarians who are rising up to protest this, because they are putting their very jobs on the line.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/831…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censorship #communitystandards #control #freedomofthought #intellectualfreedom #librarian #library #moralcode #power #suppression
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From ABC News.com: Librarian fired for refusing to move over 100 books from children's to adult section
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From ABC News.com: Librarian fired for refusing to move over 100 books from children's to adult section
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From ABC News.com: Librarian fired for refusing to move over 100 books from children's to adult section
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From ABC News.com: Librarian fired for refusing to move over 100 books from children's to adult section
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censor #censorship #disagreement #disapproval #disturbance #judgmental #reading #unruliness
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censor #censorship #disagreement #disapproval #disturbance #judgmental #reading #unruliness
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censor #censorship #disagreement #disapproval #disturbance #judgmental #reading #unruliness
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censor #censorship #disagreement #disapproval #disturbance #judgmental #reading #unruliness
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #bookbanning #books #censor #censorship #disagreement #disapproval #disturbance #judgmental #reading #unruliness
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In a twist on #bookbanning, a liberal #NJ school dist. struggling w/ a #mentalhealth crisis pulls a book w/an attempted #suicide. They should’ve listened to author Junot Díaz: “I resist the idea that there's something supremely deterministic, or supremely dangerous, about #art. Art in fact holds people in conversations, acts to limit or to reduce the sense of isolation & loneliness, it raises difficult topics in order to deepen our understanding & build up our resilience https://www.npr.org/2026/02/20/nx-s1-5708741/junot-diaz-oscar-wao-mental-health-book-bans
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The most active voices in #bookbanning are they who do not read...
... Or worse, read one book.
"Beware people of one book"
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Political Satire: Banning My Own Book
If my books are banned, they should sell better, right?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=182
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#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
Oh FFS.
Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/bay-area-writer-book-banned-yosemite-21171556.php
#Books #BookBanning #Censorship by Olivia Hebert via @sfgate -
#MomsForLiberty is the anti-#LGBTQ #MAGA grifting operation that is running #BookBanning and child-hating #Karens in #SchoolBoard and #PublicLibrary board races across the country.
#Moms4Liberty went 0 for 34 on #TACO Tuesday election night! https://www.threads.com/@smokeyplaces/post/DQsintSgQFv?xmt=AQF0x3GnxGP0zgHVKJEJUgysQ45OMubnQE3vwcFDRdnYqw
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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#MomsForLiberty is the anti-#LGBTQ #MAGA grifting operation that is running #BookBanning and child-hating #Karens in #SchoolBoard and #PublicLibrary board races across the country.
#Moms4Liberty went 0 for 34 on #TACO Tuesday election night! https://www.threads.com/@smokeyplaces/post/DQsintSgQFv?xmt=AQF0x3GnxGP0zgHVKJEJUgysQ45OMubnQE3vwcFDRdnYqw
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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#MomsForLiberty is the anti-#LGBTQ #MAGA grifting operation that is running #BookBanning and child-hating #Karens in #SchoolBoard and #PublicLibrary board races across the country.
#Moms4Liberty went 0 for 34 on #TACO Tuesday election night! https://www.threads.com/@smokeyplaces/post/DQsintSgQFv?xmt=AQF0x3GnxGP0zgHVKJEJUgysQ45OMubnQE3vwcFDRdnYqw
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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#MomsForLiberty is the anti-#LGBTQ #MAGA grifting operation that is running #BookBanning and child-hating #Karens in #SchoolBoard and #PublicLibrary board races across the country.
#Moms4Liberty went 0 for 34 on #TACO Tuesday election night! https://www.threads.com/@smokeyplaces/post/DQsintSgQFv?xmt=AQF0x3GnxGP0zgHVKJEJUgysQ45OMubnQE3vwcFDRdnYqw
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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#MomsForLiberty is the anti-#LGBTQ #MAGA grifting operation that is running #BookBanning and child-hating #Karens in #SchoolBoard and #PublicLibrary board races across the country.
#Moms4Liberty went 0 for 34 on #TACO Tuesday election night! https://www.threads.com/@smokeyplaces/post/DQsintSgQFv?xmt=AQF0x3GnxGP0zgHVKJEJUgysQ45OMubnQE3vwcFDRdnYqw
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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Authors of a book about book banning banned from discussing book banning at book tour stop. Peak post-truth society.
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Oh, the authors, the titles that helped me come out, made me laugh, educated me on sex and identity, offered encouragement that I wasn’t alone, that I was part of a tribe that forever struggled against the status quo, and that I could — gulp — actually love myself, be proud of my specialness.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/books-that-helped-me-love-my-gay-self-are-in-danger-of-disappearing-ecb7f1822840?sk=ecc8dead5553b0162f869ceb9042e110 -
Kim A Snyder's The Librarians #documentary (BBC4 / iPlayer) is upsetting viewing, but important nonetheless.
Who targets #librarians? Turns out it’s right-wing #Christian groups - part of a well-funded, corporate-backed (looking at you Patriot Mobile) #bookbanning campaign mobilising parents and school boards to fight the #culture wars against children learning about #race, #ethnicity and #lgbtq plus rights – one #library and one #librarian at a time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kkmj
Produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. The world really is a strange place right now.
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Censorship: PRH’s ‘Banned Wagon’ Goes to Washington
Handing out copies of books banned by right-wing censorship efforts, the PRH 'Banned Wagon' is in its third tour of duty.
The post Censorship: PRH’s ‘Banned Wagon’ Goes to Washington appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/10/censorship-prhs-banned-wagon-goes-to-washington/#BookBanning #Censorship #CriticalThinking #FreedomofExpression #FreedomtoPublish
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What books helped influence and shape YOU? How? Got a story?
What books do you want to recommend? Let’s see your reading list!
What about toxic effects of book bans? Got a story to share about how a book ban harmed you, a family member, or a friend?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/as-library-shelves-empty-lets-shout-out-queer-books-other-art-602c17801e95 -
Political Satire: Banning My Own Book
And buying a Learjet in 2021:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=182