#kellyjensen — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections, libraries
Via BookRiot, by #KellyJensen:
Save public #Libraries and schools by voting down-ballot --this piece includes a good breakdown on what you need to do to vote responsibly in every race:
https://bookriot.com/save-public-libraries-and-schools-by-voting-down-ballot/
If you need more help with local candidates, check out this two resources:
and/or
https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/your-guide-to-the-elections-in-november-2024/
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After reading "Authors discover book bans, four years later" by #KellyJensen over at #BookRiot, (here: https://bookriot.com/stephen-king-and-book-bans/), on #StephenKing's shock and surprise that *his* books are being banned in Florida. #PatriciaCornwell is also shocked. Indeed, how dare they!
I can't resist the impulse to post my very own hot take--from November 2023.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-white-privilege-of-stephen-king/
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#BookRiot's #KellyJensen explains how censorship is much more than outright book bans.
https://bookriot.com/its-still-censorship-even-if-its-not-a-book-ban-book/
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Hat tip to Reader Advisory For All's antiracist advocate Becky Spratford: read the executive summary from the Knight Foundation and Langer Research Associates survey on the U.S. public about #BookBans in school#Llibraries, and how that extrapolates to public libraries:
https://raforall.blogspot.com/2024/08/survey-results-americans-views-on-book.htmlYou can read Literary Activism's #KellyJensen's take via #BookRiot here:
https://bookriot.com/most-americans-oppose-school-book-bans-and-restrictions-new-research-supports-freedom-to-read/ -
#bookriot's #kellyjensen reports on #censorship. In her latest:
"...none of this is limited to “bad” or “red” states. Bad actors aren’t just in states that folks like to malign; they’re even in “good” states where there are new laws protecting libraries from book bans or where library workers have been preparing for these possibilities. The belief that we should only care about “good” states plays right into the very systems that the christian nationalist book censors create."