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  1. J.K. Rowlings oder Darf Harry Potter gelesen werden?

    Da war sie wieder: Die Diskussion um das x-te Buch für Schulkinder rund um die Themenwelt von Harry Potter. Diesmal war es der Band um Hermine Granger aus der Reihe der "Potter Guides". Ein Buch für Erstleser*innen aufgemacht als Leitfaden zur Figur Hermines. Die Kinder lieben es. So wie die jetzt fast Vi

    joviseo.de/j-k-rowlings-oder-d

    #LESEN #Bookban #books #Literatur #Rowling #TERF #Zensur

  2. Alberta Senator @Paulatics delivered an excellent speech warning of the harms of online censorship, moral panic, book bans, and the problems with bans and age verifications as Senate Bill S-209 moves from the Senate to the House of Commons.

    Thank you Senator! I could not agree more!

    youtube.com/watch?v=mEsf_qQzvpg

    #OnlineHarms #AgeVerification #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SoberFirstThought #Canada #Censorship #BookBan #Alberta #ABPoli #DanielleSmith

  3. Tell Your Representatives: Vote NO on a National Book Ban!

    Denounced by the American Library Association, the manipulatively titled “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” proposes legislation to withhold federal funding if schools do not comply with the government’s opinion of what children should or should not be allowed to read.

    indivisiblesf.org/call-scripts

    #BookBan

  4. Theocrats, plutocrats, autocrats, all itching to tear down the world and rebuild it in their likeness. When did democracy go out of style? It's no wonder the USA is going to shit, big money is fanning the flames of fascism from within. We have our own sectarian crap to contend with, yet we're spending billions to supposedly rid other countries of theirs? WTAF

    thelibrariansfilm.com/streamin

    pbs.org/independentlens/docume

    youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE

    #IndependentLens #TheLibrarians #Libraries #Librarians #PBS #Democracy #FreeSpeech #BookBan #Fascism #USA

  5. Following up on Alberta's book ban legislation, CBC used Access to Information requests to compile an updated list of banned books. [1]

    Last fall I posted about the initial list - which was criticized by Danielle Smith even though her legislation created it. [2]

    I am sad to see graphic novel versions of Albert Camus in the list as his work greatly influenced me as a teen.

    [1] cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

    [2] mastodon.social/@pkiff/1151148

    #Alberta #Censorship #Libraries #AlbertCamus #BookBan

  6. Following up on Alberta's book ban legislation, CBC used Access to Information requests to compile an updated list of banned books. [1]

    Last fall I posted about the initial list - which was criticized by Danielle Smith even though her legislation created it. [2]

    I am sad to see graphic novel versions of Albert Camus in the list as his work greatly influenced me as a teen.

    [1] cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

    [2] mastodon.social/@pkiff/1151148

    #Alberta #Censorship #Libraries #AlbertCamus #BookBan

  7. Following up on Alberta's book ban legislation, CBC used Access to Information requests to compile an updated list of banned books. [1]

    Last fall I posted about the initial list - which was criticized by Danielle Smith even though her legislation created it. [2]

    I am sad to see graphic novel versions of Albert Camus in the list as his work greatly influenced me as a teen.

    [1] cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

    [2] mastodon.social/@pkiff/1151148

    #Alberta #Censorship #Libraries #AlbertCamus #BookBan

  8. Following up on Alberta's book ban legislation, CBC used Access to Information requests to compile an updated list of banned books. [1]

    Last fall I posted about the initial list - which was criticized by Danielle Smith even though her legislation created it. [2]

    I am sad to see graphic novel versions of Albert Camus in the list as his work greatly influenced me as a teen.

    [1] cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

    [2] mastodon.social/@pkiff/1151148

    #Alberta #Censorship #Libraries #AlbertCamus #BookBan

  9. Following up on Alberta's book ban legislation, CBC used Access to Information requests to compile an updated list of banned books. [1]

    Last fall I posted about the initial list - which was criticized by Danielle Smith even though her legislation created it. [2]

    I am sad to see graphic novel versions of Albert Camus in the list as his work greatly influenced me as a teen.

    [1] cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

    [2] mastodon.social/@pkiff/1151148

    #Alberta #Censorship #Libraries #AlbertCamus #BookBan

  10. Tonight at LUX Nijmegen: a screening of the documentary “The Librarians” — a powerful film about banned books and the ongoing fight for free access to information. 📚
    📅 9 March
    🕢 19:30 — film + discussion
    📍 LUX Nijmegen
    More info & tickets:
    lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/radb

    #books #boeken #bibliotheken #libraries #BannedBook #BookBan #TheLibrarians #ReadBannedBooks #bookstodon

  11. Vandaag lekker buttons gemaakt. Ben benieuwd of ik er morgen nog andere tegenkom bij de film + debat over banned books.

    📅 9 maart | 🕢 19.30
    📍 LUX Nijmegen
    Meer info:
    lux-nijmegen.nl/programma/radb

    #books #boeken #bibliotheken #libraries #BannedBook #BookBan #TheLibrarians #ReadBannedBooks

  12. “So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven’t you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.”

    ― Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts"

    #Zitatemontag
    #Zitate
    #Quotes
    #Quotations
    #Novels
    #Books
    #BannedBooks
    #Bookban
    #Bookbans
    #Bookstodon

    ✍️ 📖 🇺🇸 📚

  13. 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

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

    by Anastasia Tsioulcas

    npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-55591

    List of banned books:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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

    #bookban #libraries

  15. 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

  16. 🇨🇦 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

    thecanadianpressnews.ca/nation

  17. Day 22: Botanical Beasts
    Been thinking about doing this sticker for a while as horrified when I see books banned for nefarious purposes, little nod to something that would piss off those types that are doing it as well. Available on the shop. blockforest.etsy.com/listing/1

    #heraldry #Halloween #October #drawingchallenge #animalart #MabsDrawlloweenClub #coatofarms #spooky #sticker #stickerclub #stickerfan #bookban #books #bookworm #mdwc24d22 #snake #apple #eden

  18. The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.

    «They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»

    Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.

    I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.

    A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.

    Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.

    Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.

    It leaves me flabbergasted.

    themarysue.com/utah-releases-f

    #FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech

  19. We know that book bans aren’t limited to schools; they stretch behind bars, too. So this June 11, on International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners (@june11), along with our friends at @BlueRidgeABC and Tranzmission Prison Project, we’re hosting a Banned Books Back! packaging party to raise funds for freedom fighters inside the prison system. Anyone, near or far, can pledge a donation for every book bundle we pack, starting at 5 cents per bundle. Sign up now at bit.ly/j11-pledge! Our co-op is matching $1 per bundle 💸

    Community members are invited to join us at 5:30 pm for food, informal conversations, and free literature about June 11. Then, at 6:30 pm, pitch in on the fun of packaging free chapter books for kids in Florida!

    Free minds, free them all, until all are free!

    To learn about the history of June 11, see june11.noblogs.org 🏴

    #June11 #PoliticalPrisoners #StateRepression #Anarchism #BookBan #FeministBookstore #MariusMason #BannedBooksBack #FirestormBooks

  20. Can we just forget I #Tweeted that? 😂😂😂

    "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
    - Winston Churchill

    “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis failed in his presidential campaign, and that is a good thing.

    It was not, however, without a cost. His hate-filled #authoritarianism was given a national stage for more than a year through his ill-fated presidential campaign — and the harm he has caused in #Florida is ongoing.
    His cause wasn’t exactly defeated, either, as much as it was adopted by many members of the #Republican Party”
    #extremism #racist #woke #antiLGBTQ #abortion #bookban #desantis

  21. Others Karma. American Blacks and Blacks of the African Diaspora saw this and called it out at the time. Yeah THIS is the chapter that is gonna get #Doppleganger on a #bookban list. #MomsForLiberty Here's a listen to Chapt 13: photos.app.goo.gl/mRDSMrT7CRae