#Florida book bannings

[ithoughtiwasthegayone]

I don't give a shit what your personal opinion is on abortion but this is bad and its getting worse.

In Arkansas they're proposing a bill that will go after everything that could cause the "death of an unborn child"

including miscarriages (which can be classified as neglect), IVF, emergency birth control, IUD, plan B, anything that can "prevent the implant of a fertilized egg", etc

THEY WILL ARREST YOU FOR MURDER

fucking murder

murder, a felony that will take away your right vote

this country is falling apart!

FL the book bannings

Trigger states after Roe V. Wade

Anti trans laws throughout the country

Increasing mass shootings

The south is killing people

The south is cares more about the unborn than the born

There's anti-science bills in Montana that will stop the teachings of, gravity, evolution, and cell theory

I can't stress this enough, please vote!

Even if you think it doesn't matter, VOTE

No vote will kill us all

There's no local news coverage on this stuff and people are dying bc of it

the republican party has blood on its hands and they blame the left

the republican senator in ohio refused help from biden after the oil spill

WE'RE DYING

#Arkansas abortion law #abortion #united states politics #Florida book bannings #Montana #USA #united states #i know im out of these states but spreading this is the best i can do #i was born through IFV my mom could have been arrested bc two died bc we were premature #i know this is all over the place but just please

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

#united states #us politics #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #lgbtq positivity #transgender #trans issues #trans positivity #transphobia #homophobia #anti trans laws #book bans #gender affirming care #georgia #florida #virginia #ohio #d.c. #republicans #democrats #voting matters #good news #hope

[liyazaki]

via the Arkansas Advocate

it’s official: in Arkansas, library staff may now be charged with a Class D felony for providing books to their communities that are deemed “obscene”.

in Florida, school librarians and teachers can be criminally charged for checking out books to kids that dare to touch on LGBTQ topics & gender identity, thanks to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

book censorship in the US is at such an all-time high, book sanctuaries are popping up all over the country.

library staff aren’t physically safe, either. just over the past couple months, threats against libraries and their staff resulted in the temporary closure of “five public library systems due to bomb and shooting threats," ALA. active shooter trainings have become the new norm for me.

the censorship myself and my colleagues have been watching unfold over the last several years has felt like watching a slow-motion car crash.

but this bill? this feels like a death knell for my profession.

via Teen Vogue

when I was a confused queer kid growing up in an ultra-religious household, the library was my refuge. when I asked hard questions, librarians listened and gave me the tools I needed to answer them. in many ways, libraries saved my life. it's why I became a librarian.

I can't believe I'm living in times where future generations of kids may not have access to the same refuge I did, but it's happening.

if you live in the US and you care about protecting open, equitable access to information, please check out the American Library Association for anti-censorship resources in your state, info on contacting your representatives, etc.

you can also report censorship you see in your community and ALA will investigate (1-800-545-2433, ext. 4266; [email protected]).

I know this isn't my usual content, but libraries are standing on the edge of a horrifying precipice- one we can't escape on our own.

libraries are free society's canary in the coal mine, and all the alarms are singing. when libraries fall, nations usually aren't far behind.

this matters- and we need help.

#censorship #book banning #libraries #banned books #arkansas #florida #public libraries #school libraries #librarians #american library association #american libraries #lgbtq+ #lgbtq+ history #us politics #homophobia #transphobia

[charliejaneanders]

[Jennifer] Armentrout told Popular Information that it was surprising to learn we are "living in an era where, apparently, some adults find it appropriate to contact the police over a fictional book involving gargoyles."

Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians

#books #politics #censorship #police state #florida #book bans #jennifer armentrout #holy fuck this is scary

[mysharona1987]

#Florida #books #news #iowa #gop #lbgqt #banned books #politics #liberals

[dduane]

Dear dear.

#Florida #book banning

[thebanishedreader]

Oh, what the hell, Florida.

Heyyy so I just looked at my spreadsheet of banned books and...

There are 1,402 BANNED BOOKS in the state of Florida ALONE.

To put that in perspective, on that very same spreadsheet, the number of banned books in California is: one (1).

If you guys have been following this (very new) blog and my posts, then you will know that the number of banned books in Colorado is: eight (8).

In Arkansas, it's four (4).

So. Just to reiterate, to repeat.

As of June 2023,

THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS BANNED 1,402 BOOKS.

NEARLY HALF OF ALL BANNED BOOKS THIS YEAR, AND NEARLY THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BANNED BOOKS IN 2022 IN TOTAL.

FLORIDA. HAS. BANNED. 1,402. BOOKS.

Please read banned books. Support libraries. Support authors. And please, please please please please, for the love of everything, stay safe. I love each and every one of you. Stay safe.

Support the American Library Association here.

#banned books #florida #literature #book banning #censorship #books and libraries #books #libraries #studycore #dark academia #light academia #book aesthetic #reading aesthetic #library aesthetic #bookblr #book blog #us politics #american politics #freedom of speech #freedom of the press #censored #book activism #social justice #literature quotes #social issues #social commentary #reading

[odinsblog]

This is recent history. Ruby Bridges is 68yrs old and she is still alive.

Emily Conklin is thee definition of a racist Karen, and she is trying to whitewash the history white children learn by erasing a rated PG Disney movie that has already been shown for years in Pinellas County schools, usually as a part of Black History Month.

Two immediate thoughts that come to mind are:

“The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”

and

“IF BLACK CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE RACISM, WHITE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT IT”

Look, Ruby Bridges was six years old when racist white parents (men and women) threw rocks and hissy fits because she was trying to get an education. A full year younger than most of the white children who are now being “protected” from learning the truth about what their grandparents did.

I guess these delicate snowflakes are so triggered by the racism of their elders that they need to get the Republican governor to whitewash away the truth.

I’m almost 40yrs old and I used to wonder how it was that in college, white kids my age genuinely believed that Martin Luther King, Jr. died of old age. But somehow, every single Black person my age knew the truth. How does that happen?? This is how it happens. This is a prime example of precisely how that happened and still happens—because to “protect” them from the truth, white kids weren’t taught that he was assassinated. It’s literally no different than raising generations of white kids to believe that 2+2=5. There’s going to be serious problems when they hit the real world. But what can I say? Conservatives like ‘em dumb and ignorant.

Anyway, this is how you get generations of fully grown white adults who truly honestly believe foolishness like “racism is over,” or “Martin Luther King basically ended racism,” or, “we don’t need affirmative action because there is no more racism; if anything it’s white people who are more discriminated against now.” (The majority of white people polled said the same thing in the 1960s too, btw).

Keeping as many white people as possible ignorant of the truth does not happen by accident. It’s very intentional. And that’s not to say that ALL white people are ignorant of the truth. Some of them, like Emily Conklin, know the truth, but just do not care.

And make no mistake: The same white people who want to keep their white children “pure” and “innocent” have ZERO problems criminalizing and sending young Black children directly to jail for even the slightest misbehavior in a classroom.

Evil, racist cowards (redundant, I know).

#politics #emily conklin #republicans #ruby bridges #whitewashing history #erasure #north shore elementary school #black history #crt #critical race theory #book banning #florida #floriduh #ron desantis

[politijohn]

Source

Cue the world’s smallest violin

#politics #us politics #florida #news #current events #the left #progressive #government #Fox news #book ban

[queerism1969]

#lgbtqia #lgbt pride #lgbtq community #lesbian #nonbinary #lgbtq #queer #sapphic #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #book banning #books #censorship #florida #politics

[ebookporn]

So this is Florida now...

#librarians #literacy #teachers #booklr #books on tumblr #writers on tumblr #florida #banned books #censorship

[commiepinkofag]

Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide

Gay schoolteachers wearing masks at parade, June 28, 1986

In this image, Seattle schoolteachers participating in the Gay Freedom Day parade through the Capitol Hill neighborhood hold a banner reading "Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide," and wear masks to protest the discrimination they have felt. An estimated 10,000 people participated in the event, which is part of Seattle's annual Gay Pride Week.

[ 📷 Jennifer Werner-Jones / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]

oh, how times have changed!

#queer history #teachers #teacher #pride month #🌈 #🏳️‍🌈 #🦄 #🏳️‍⚧️ #1980s #80s #1986 #queer #school #florida #book ban #book bans #librarians #librarian #anti trans legislation #anti woke legislation #pride march #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbqti #discrimination #demonstration #protest #seattle #capitol hill #cap hill

[liyazaki]

read the full article here

help fight book censorship

#i’m sorry (not sorry)- i swear this is the last one #i’m in near tears at work & i had to #grace linn #book banning #banned books #book censorship #libraries #public libraries #school libraries #censorship #florida #martin county #us politics #world war two #auschwitz

[renthony]

From the article:

If a governor, state representative, or school district resorts to banning books, they have already lost the fight between competing ideas. But that hasn’t stopped Gov. Ron DeSantis and an army of overzealous crusaders across Florida from ratcheting up their war against books, education, and social justice (shhh, no one is supposed to know about this one.) They’ll tell you that the campaign is an attempt to protect (their) children from books they deem “pornographic, harmful to minors, or that depict sexual activity.” According to the laws implemented by the Republican legislative supermajority, the books must be pulled from shelves within five days of a complaint and remain out of circulation for the duration of any challenge. According to PEN America, a free-speech advocacy group, one Florida school district has “banned” more than 1,600 books. Things have gotten so ridiculous that in Escambia County, school administrators have banned the dictionary.

#florida news #censorship #book banning

[mysharona1987]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/28/virginia-frequent-school-book-challenger-spotsylvania/

What a sad life this woman has. She literally challenges a new school book every week.

So she wants everyone under the age of 18 to never read about sex?

Dracula? Anne Frank’s Diary? The Catcher in the Rye? Of Mice and Men?

Jeez, she’d even ban the Sweet Valley High books. (Jessica was a total hoe and once set up her own twin sister to get date raped.)

She’s a nutjob on a power trip. And she needs a hobby.

#Education #book bans #virginia #books #politics #democrats #republicans #florida #desantis

[intothestacks]

My mom sent me this screenshot with the message "I think you'll approve"

#banned books #book censorship #florida #florida book ban #united states #librarylife #libraryland #libraries #book lover #the real life of me #my mom #not my picture #public libraries #censorship