Don't forget #BannedBooks week starts next week on September 18th, though I think it's important to raise awareness for banned #books year-round! Knowledge is power! https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/banned-books

@fawfulfan

effing wow.
I guess they would ban "the Odd Couple", too. Two guys living together.
And Moby Dick. I mean, it was all men on that boat. And that title!
*eyeroll*

#satire #BannedBooks #Literature

I guess when they arrive in KY, and they will in due time, I hope Costco might employ me as a receipt checker.

>‘There won’t be libraries left’: how a Florida county became the book ban heartland of the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/19/clay-county-florida-book-bans-moms-for-liberty

#PartyOfStupid #Christofascists #BannedBooks #censorship #Floriduh #libraries

Call for submissions: An anthology centered around the topics of intellectual freedom, censorship, and book bans, through the imagined lens of librarians and structured according to the Dewey Decimal System.
#BannedBooks #submissions #podcasts

https://amynielsenauthor.com/2023/08/28/authorish-podcast-episode-11-banned-books-and-a-call-for-submissions-inspired-by-them/

I’ve added your banned book list to my to-be-read list. #books #reading #bannedbooks

500 Character book report on book #80 of the ALA's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019. "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Classics Fiction

Young Alex and his "natsat" words made this a hard read. Creative and sometimes funny, it asks important questions about free will and the limits placed on it within a society. Originally published in the U.S. without the final chapter. Banned from FLA middle-schools for obscene and/or pornographic content. 4.5/5

#BannedBooks

500 Character book report on book #74 of the ALA's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019. "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers. Young Adult Fiction

Sixteen year old Steve Harmon from Harlem, NY makes an imaginary movie about the trouble he's in. The script is how the story is told to the reader. Steve is accused of participating in an armed robbery and homicide. I don't want to give away too much, but we get an interesting and frightening view of the legal system. 3.5/5

#BannedBooks

the authors of banned books should allow them to be distributed in non-DRM formats so they are more accessible in places where they have been banned

#bannedbooks #bannedbookclub #drm #drmfree

In more #libraries having to deal with #PartyOfStupid bigoted #ChristoFascists

>Virginia Library's Funding Threatened Over LGBTQ Book Brawl https://www.advocate.com/news/front-royal-samuels-library-controversy

#books #reading #censorship #fuckery #BannedBooks #LGBTQ

#3GoodThings
1. Finished my Banned Books display and I am fired up and ready for students
2. Perfect evening in the back yard
3.Trader Joes peanut butter cups for dessert!
#BannedBooks

For #week2 #bannedbooks we are reading "The House Of The Spirits" By Isabel Allende (library copy as mine is still in transit).

No, #Christofascists are not exclusively U.S.

>Mexican parents burn textbooks infected with ‘virus of communism’ in fiery protest against gender ideology https://nypost.com/2023/09/03/mexican-parents-burn-textbooks-infected-with-virus-of-communism-in-fiery-protest-against-gender-ideology/

#BannedBooks #censorship #books #reading #Mexico #education #LatinAmerica

Former Norman teacher who shared link to banned books still in license limbo #Oklahoma #OklahomaVoice #Education #BannedBooks
https://oklahomavoice.com/briefs/former-norman-teacher-who-shared-link-to-banned-books-still-in-license-limbo/

#libraries #BannedBooks

They ban books to make you isolated, alone, and uninformed. Thus much easier to control.
#BannedBooks #Velshi #MSNBC

This is a beautifully illustrated story about a Black girl and her "mind-of-its-own hair." The author is Matthew A. Cherry and illustrated by Vashti Harrison. It has been banned by the Northampton (PA) Area School District.

https://www.threads.net/@the_petty_auntie/post/Cwiqg5BN5OE

#bannedbooks #libraries #BlackMastodon #fascism

47 Best #BannedBooks #Quotes To Inspire #Change
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/banned-books-quotes

Come out to the Petersburg Education Association's #bannedbooks swap at @Resist_bks to learn about the writers that the authorities don't want you to know. Special guests include Lashrecse Aird and Kim Adams.

#PetersburgEducationAssociation
#literacy
#PetersburgVA #Virginia

Yet more reason why I worry about my students going into student teaching, and why there is not enough money to make me go back to #school #teaching.

>New Report: Surge of Intrusive Legislation to Intimidate Teachers, Drive Self-Censorship in Schools
https://pen.org/press-release/new-report-surge-of-intrusive-legislation-to-intimidate-teachers-drive-self-censorship-in-schools/

#books #reading #censorship #fuckery #PartyOfStupid #Christofascists #BannedBooks

For #week1 #bannedbooks, we are reading "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian" by Sherman Alexie