#stopbookbanning — Public Fediverse posts

If you’re wondering “how Florida is Florida?”, our school board just voted to ban a book (over the recommendation of their hand-picked review committee) in part because it’s a manga, and therefore read back-to-front. #supportpubliceducation #florida #StopMomsForLiberty #stopbookbanning https://www.threads.net/@paulroub/post/C_MSYW4JQuq

Amid book bans across the South, LGBTQ+ advocates and groups are pushing back to ensure youth have access to banned books: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-lgbtq-advocates-and-groups-are-combating-book-bans/

#LGBTQIA #BookBans #StopBookBanning #PrideMonth #Pride

To find someone local who thinks there should be *more* unfounded book challenges, they had to resort to our county’s #1 book banner (she challenged “The Nowhere Girls”, which I’m flipping through, unaware who was on deck). So she still agrees with herself, I guess.

https://youtu.be/QDZnKdHMus8?si=8X7edEUuCU_3Ffvp

#StopMomsForLiberty #stopbookbanning #supportpubliceducation

(the video was restored on appeal) #StopMomsForLiberty #stopbookbanning

Earlier tonight I posted a video to TikTok, lamenting the insanity that is Moms For Liberty and in particular their book ban crusade, not least the forced coverup of cartoons in children’s books. TikTok pulled the video for, I swear, 'Sexually Suggesive Content'

https://roub.net/blahg/2024/03/28/in-tonight-s-news-irony-is-still-dead/

#StopMomsForLiberty #stopbookbanning

What is irony, anyway?

#StopMomsForLiberty
#supportpubliceducation
#stopbookbanning

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3UyVWo/

Ugh. Conroe.

The twisted, stunted attitudes about "protecting children" make them prey to people pushing these agendas.

#StopBookBanning
#LyingForProfit

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/mysterious-woman-tells-school-board?r=2htr4&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

More than 100 U.S. #leaders – #lawmakers, #presidents, #governors and #justices – have #slaveholding #ancestors, a #Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/ #slavery #descendents #LindseyGraham #history #education #StopBookBanning

FL Gov. DeSantis' law banning books in schools about race and racism, gender & sexual identity is an assault on our educators, children, & freedom of speech for all.

➡️ Take action with Unite Against Book Bans here:
https://tinyurl.com/BTActionUniteAgainstBookBans

Read this excellent deep dive on DeSantis’ Florida book bans by @juddlegum:
https://tinyurl.com/FLBookBansJuddLegum

#creepingfascism #bookbanning #bookbans #stopbookbanning #uniteagainstbookbanning #news #politics #bannedbooksbookclub

📚A book about the late Afro-Puerto Rican MLB legend Roberto Clemente was removed from the shelves of public school libraries in Florida's Duval County.

Take Action. Sign a PENAmerica letter here supporting the freedom to read: https://tinyurl.com/BookBanBT

#creepingfascism #bookbanning #stopbookbanning #robertoclemente #BookBans

Montanans: Tell your MT State Representative to Say no to SB 234, which would set Montana museums and libraries up for frivolous lawsuits based on people’s personal objections to materials.

Use Montana Human Rights Network’s form to send a message to your MT House Representative. https://secure.everyaction.com/BEaqDm6gFk6tHi3M2kycXQ2?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

#DemCastMT #MTLeg #MTPol #MTNews #MonTwitter #MontMastodon #FirstAmendment #Montana #StopBookBanning