The push to combat #DeSantis’ #bannedbook movement
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-recast/2023/07/05/moveon-banned-books-bus-tour-00104738

There's a new #bannedbook news roundup on my blog. https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=33392

Happy #Bloomsday to all who celebrate James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses, which takes place in and around Dublin all on one day: June 16, 1904.

On the left: photo of Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), taken inside his home in Paris, France, in 1926 by photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). At the time, Joyce was writing Finnegan's Wake.

On the right: a leaf.

#Ulysses #JamesJoyce #LeopoldBloom #bannedBook #Dublin. ✍️ 📕 ✒️

On my blog, a fresh #bannedbook review: https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=33407

#Book #Library #BannedBook

Can someone point me towards an online resource that lists the actual book titles and authors of the Banned Books from each US State.

History: In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings.

Also History: Recently, 10 US States have banned almost 2,000 books so far in a country that has free speech ... except when the religious people say we need to burn books their god didn't like. And their gods are incapable of burning these books.

Fight #Censorship With These #BannedBook Goodies
https://bookriot.com/banned-book-goodies/

proud to say that my book Becoming has been banned in parts of the US. there is no higher honour to be banned by fash.

becoming is a flip book that shows my body's changes one year before one year after gender affirmation surgery, published 2010. was way before its time.

shout out to radical librarians who are doing amazing work.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/7/how-teachers-and-librarians-are-subverting-book-bans-in-the-us

you can see the exhibition version of this as a 3 meter zoetrope right now at the #zitadelleSpandau
#bannedBook #MastoArt #bookart

New on my blog: a #bannedbook news update. https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=33128

I don't normally write about politics or talk about it, it's not my area of interest, I'm neutral and I will probably be criticized for it.

Anyone saying “Only those other people do this!’ is conveniently leaving out examples of their own ideology.

History contains plenty of examples of extremes from both sides of the political spectrum book-banning, as well as engaging in other forms of censorship.

Nazis/fascists did it. Communists did it.

Islamic extremists do it today, North Koreans do it today.

Censorship is neither inherently conservative nor inherently liberal. It is inherently authoritarian. And authoritarians have historically existed at the extremes of both ends.

#books #Bannedbook #bookbanning #BooksAreTheBestWeapons #Libraries #librariesareforeveryone

There's a new #bannedbook news roundup on my blog: https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=32908

I am thankful to my parents, librarians and educators who enabled if not encouraged me to read books about difficult and unpleasant topics. Books about the holocaust and slavery. Books like Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

My junior year a teacher recommended a book to me about the massacre at My Lai, a book I'm sure many people wouldn't want in a high school library.

These books were a critical part of my education, and I'm appalled at the many attempts to sanitize and suppress unpleasant and inconvenient truths from our classrooms, curriculum, and libraries.

Today is the 55th anniversary of My Lai. May I recommend a #BannedBook?

Your kids are being exposed to an extremely #violent, #pornographic #book that may be responsible for some of #history’s most violent periods. But, this is one book you won’t find on any #GOP #bannedbook list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFx6z011Ds

#Books #Bookstodon #BooksOfMastodon #Literature #YoungAdult #YoungAdultFiction #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensLiterature #Fiction #FictionWriting #ChildrensFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writer #Writers #WritersOfMastodon #BookBans #BannedBook #BannedBooks #Banned #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #LGBTQ #LGBTQbooks #LGBTQbookstodon #PhillipPullman

#Update from #yesterday

My boss LOVES my #BannedBook reading station! I'm tryna convince her to start with #StrangerInAStrangeLand by #Heinlein

I'm about halfway through #Fahrenheit451 by #Bradbury. Here's a quote that's still (sadly) relevant today:

#Today I'm reading a #BannedBook about #BookBans (in between customers)

New on my blog: a #BannedBook review of Eleanor & Park. https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=32856

New #BannedBook post on my blog. Outing teachers & librarians is playing with fire. https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=32545

I'm reading a banned book. It is good. I'm half-way through it. https://bannedbooksweek.org/banned-spotlight-the-hate-u-give/

#race #blm #blacklivesmatter #bannedbook #freedom #firstamendment #thehateugive #free #book

Why Are ##Banned? Here's #BannedBook Author #IbramXKendi's Take

https://www.theroot.com/ibram-x-kendi-banned-books-how-to-be-an-antiracist-1850085181
An honor or a tragedy? The author of the @nytimes bestseller "How To Be An #Antiracist" shares his perspective.

500 character book report on "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo" a children's book(?) by Marlon Bundo with Jill Twiss. #19 on the ALA list of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books 2010-2019

Who doesn't love political satire disguised as a children's book? (Sadly, I know who.) Marlon the bunny doesn't like being told whom he can marry by the Stink
Bug with the haircut and morality code of Mike Pence. I recommend it for everyone who eats their sandwiches crust-first. 5/5

#BannedBook