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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 2, 2023 10:40:44 GMT
We can have active shooter drills, but not let kids know about menstruation???
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 7, 2023 22:03:05 GMT
Why are we allowing this?
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Post by Merge on Sept 8, 2023 0:17:39 GMT
Why are we allowing this? Good question. It seems to me that Democrats at the national level have no interest in protecting the constitutional rights of Americans who happen to reside in red states, who are themselves being controlled by a tiny minority of ultra-right voters due to gerrymandering and where the money is coming from.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 8, 2023 0:46:34 GMT
New Jersey's first sanctuary library... HOBOKEN BECOMES FIRST BOOK SANCTUARY CITY AFTER COUNCIL'S UNANIMOUS VOTEWednesday, September 6, 2023 11:25PM ET HOBOKEN, New Jersey (WABC) -- Hoboken is now the first Book Sanctuary City in New Jersey, thanks to a City Council's unanimous vote Wednesday night. The measure came in response to a nationwide push to ban certain literature. Hoboken's new status will now prevent books from being restricted as well as protect endangered books and keep materials accessible to all regardless of their content. "Hoboken's rich history and vibrant community make it the perfect place for a Book Sanctuary," said Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla. "In establishing this haven for books, we not only honor the city's diversity, but also champion unrestricted thinking and the unrestricted exchange of knowledge." abc7ny.com/hoboken-book-sanctuary-city-banned-books-nj/13743777/
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 12, 2023 13:02:20 GMT
If this is behind a paywall, PLMK and I can post a gift article. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-emily-drabinski.htmlThis conversation unpacks the political and cultural anxieties fueling the attacks on libraries. The guest host Tressie McMillan Cottom discusses with Drabinski how libraries are a bulwark against the increasing class divides of American life, how the “small infrastructure” of the public library differs from big infrastructure like highways and bridges, how library classification systems can entrench the status quo, the parallels between political attacks on the library and the U.S. Postal Service, how censorship attempts fit in the broader landscape of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation and much more.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 13, 2023 12:45:53 GMT
More bomb threats to libraries.
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 13, 2023 13:05:10 GMT
It feels like we're living in some kind of alternate universe where libraries are getting bomb threats. But, it's not surprising given the conservatives' violent rhetoric and targeting of books, libraries, librarians and teachers.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 13, 2023 20:09:47 GMT
This is a suburb of Atlanta, FYI.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 13, 2023 21:35:26 GMT
I apologize, it was SEVEN bomb threats yesterday.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 13, 2023 22:33:27 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 13, 2023 22:39:48 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 14, 2023 3:47:57 GMT
This library board managed to show their insensitivity, ignorance and biases against people with autism as well as the LGBTQ community. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/13/kansas-librarians-lawsuit-rainbow-autism/Librarians say they were fired for rainbow autism symbols, accused of ‘LGBTQ agenda’
In June, two librarians put up two rainbow-colored displays near the entrance of the public library in Sterling, Kan. — their way of celebrating autism and neurodiversity, according to a recently filed lawsuit. In one, the rainbow colors formed an infinity symbol broken up only by a heart and accompanied by the words “We all think differently.” The other was a rainbow scarf adorned with the silhouette of a child in a wheelchair reaching out to the words “In diversity is beauty and strength.”
The librarians say they were fired after a library board member complained the display promoted an “LGBTQ agenda.”
On Tuesday, the two former librarians filed a lawsuit alleging that the Sterling Free Public Library’s eight-member board, the city of Sterling and its mayor violated their rights to free speech. In a 30-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for Kansas, Kari Wheeler and Brandy Lancaster accused one of the board members, Michelle Miller, of waging an illegal campaign to censor their pro-autism displays because she mistakenly thought they were promoting “LGBTQ agendas.”
Miller, interim library director Rochelle Rodger and Mayor Bob Boltz, who’s on the board, did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post on Wednesday. Sterling City Manager Craig Crossette declined to comment on the lawsuit.
In August 2022, Wheeler was hired as the library director, despite telling board members during her interview that she had never been a librarian before, her lawyer, Gaye Tibbets, wrote in the lawsuit. In March, Lancaster was hired part-time as her aide and the acting assistant librarian.
This June, Wheeler and Lancaster created a display in the library’s entrance that grew out of the theme for a nationwide summer reading program, “All Together Now.” While Wheeler provided direction, Lancaster chose what books and artwork to use, the suit states, opting for “a photo with five primary colors in the background, a silhouette of a child in a wheelchair and a quote by Maya Angelou that said, ‘In diversity there is beauty and strength.’”
On June 22, a temporary library employee allegedly told Lancaster that she was offended by the multicolored infinity symbol, which she had mistaken for a symbol of gay pride. Lancaster corrected her, telling her that it was a logo symbolizing neurodiversity and autism, prompting the temporary employee to launch “into an anti-gay story about conflict in her family,” according to the suit.
The employee then sent a text to Miller, the board member, complaining about the symbol, the suit states. Miller allegedly told the temporary employee that she would use the power of her position on the board to force Wheeler and Lancaster to remove it from the display. In a text, Miller vowed that “we’re not going to have that display up because I will rally the board members to call [Wheeler] to take it down,” the suit states.
A half-hour later, Miller allegedly sent a text to Wheeler, saying she’d stopped by the library that afternoon and noticed “some rainbow looking signs on the table by the circ desk.”
“I do not want any kind of rainbow display (aside from solely colors focused) especially in this month,” she allegedly wrote in the text. “We have a conservative town and as a library do not need to make political statements (see Target and Budlight as negative examples).”
“I certainly do not want the library to promote LGBTQ agendas,” she allegedly wrote.
That same day, a city employee allegedly texted Miller, pushing her to leverage her board position to get the display removed. She sent the picture of the child in the wheelchair with a multicolored background, telling Miller it was “not okay” and saying the autism infinity logo made her “sick to her stomach,” the lawsuit states.
Later, the woman allegedly confronted Wheeler at the library, saying she wouldn’t bring her children there if the display remained. Wheeler shared her experience working with autistic children at the library and being around them for years before that, the lawsuit says. Showcasing the symbols publicly was intended to make neurodiverse children feel welcome at the library, she told the woman, according to the suit.
“Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one right way of thinking, learning, and behaving, and differences are not viewed as deficits,” says a Harvard Medical School article quoted in the librarians’ lawsuit.
A special board meeting was called the next day, the suit states. At the start, Wheeler and Lancaster gave board members a packet highlighting state laws that prohibit censoring library materials “because of viewpoint,” according to the suit. Wheeler told board members she was uncomfortable changing the display because of Miller’s objections. None of them challenged Miller’s “anti-gay statements” or backed Wheeler’s assertion that censoring library materials was a problem, the suit states.
About two weeks later, on July 5, the board called another special meeting, in which members gathered in a closed session outside the public eye, according to the suit. After 22 minutes, they emerged and voted to fire Wheeler and Lancaster, the lawsuit states. In doing so, board president Jeremy Stinemetz told Wheeler that “she had lost the confidence of the board to effectively perform her position,” the suit alleges.
A little more than two months later, Wheeler and Lancaster filed their lawsuit.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 16, 2023 9:54:38 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 18, 2023 10:33:14 GMT
But, wait! Katy purchases bibles in 4 different languages AND The Garbage Tuttle Twins:
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 19, 2023 10:36:38 GMT
And local to me: He's a candidate for Missouri Governor: What a peach.
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 19, 2023 18:16:59 GMT
But, wait! Katy purchases bibles in 4 different languages AND The Garbage Tuttle Twins: Incest, child genocide, rape, murder, slavery, human sacrifice, graphic violence, mass murder, and so much more all in The Bible.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 20, 2023 19:33:43 GMT
Anne Frank Graphic Novel got a teacher fired in Texas and now this:
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 20, 2023 19:44:41 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 21, 2023 21:29:16 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 22, 2023 22:04:34 GMT
I know a lot of people hate Twitter, but this post is so important. Books are not always mirrors, sometimes they're windows.
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 26, 2023 16:58:15 GMT
As if we are surprised at anything coming out of Florida at this point, but it's still freaking terrible:
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Post by Lurkingpea on Sept 26, 2023 18:24:36 GMT
As if we are surprised at anything coming out of Florida at this point, but it's still freaking terrible: If I lived in a state doing this I would do anything within my power to move. I understand the reason people stay to try to exact change by voting but I just can't imagine living in a state that does this. Despicable.
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Post by ntsf on Sept 27, 2023 1:06:32 GMT
btw, california just banned book bans...
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 28, 2023 14:53:56 GMT
Not just banning now...
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Post by elaine on Sept 28, 2023 22:20:27 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 2, 2023 23:21:12 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 10, 2023 17:59:45 GMT
Public Book Fair shouldn't have "Banned Books".It's not enough they've been banned from schools, but now that they have been banned, you now use that as an excuse to feel uncomfortable if they show up at a Book Fair for the public? When they're removed from public libraries, bookstores will be next. This wrong.
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Post by freecharlie on Oct 10, 2023 23:52:00 GMT
I taught about banned books last week. My students were shocked.
Cheyenne, Wyoming is the next front. I have a friend that teaches there. It is heartbreaking
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 11, 2023 10:49:56 GMT
I taught about banned books last week. My students were shocked. Cheyenne, Wyoming is the next front. I have a friend that teaches there. It is heartbreaking Yep, I had M4L and GAG at my SB meeting last week. We have 4 seats on our SB coming up for election in November and you bet your bottom dollar I already sent e-mails to all. How many more times can we hear "protect the children" and not see through their BS?
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 11, 2023 14:19:18 GMT
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