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curiouscatalog · 4 months

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Winter has us dreaming of the beach.

From: Virginia Beach, Virginia (travel brochure), 1963.

#Virginia Beach #beach #summer #1960s #travel #travel brochure #Atlantic ocean #ocean #east coast #Virginia travel #library of virginia #visual materials #specialcollections

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shisasan · 11 months

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own [originally published 1929]

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dark-romantics · 9 months

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#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #classic literature #english literature #virginia woolf #literature #librarylife #letters #lit #books and libraries

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always-coffee · 2 months

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WV Libraries Are Under Attack: How to Help

News came out yesterday that West Virginia House passed House Bill 4654. This would remove “bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to a minor of obscene matter. …”

Potentially criminalizing librarians is bad, and it’s straight out of the fascist playbook. “Opponents of the bill said that while the bill does not ban books, the bill would have unintended consequences for public and school libraries, resulting in increases in challenges to even classic books and attempts to criminally charge librarians over books not pornographic in nature, but books that include descriptions of sex. They also said it could result in improper criminal charges against library staff,” Steven Allen Adams writes.

So, the question is: now what? What do we do? Where do we go from here?

If you live in West Virginia, call you state senate reps. You can find them listed here.

It’s okay to keep your message short:

“Hi, I’m [full name] calling from [ZIP code], and I’m a constituent of [Senator Name]. I am calling to voice my opposition to Bill 4654, because this is a dangerous step toward book banning. It could potentially harm librarians and libraries, which is incredibly wrong. Do not back this dangerous bill.

You can also ask how many people have called to voice their opposition to this bill. This may annoy the person on the phone, but they technically have to answer you. They may be evasive anyway. But you can either give them your contact information and tell them you’d like a call back or you can call back again later and ask for the tally.

The thing is, people rarely call in. A handful of calls is considered a lot, and the best thing you can do right now is make yourself a nuisance. Good trouble, etc.

Only call if you live in West Virginia, because they do not count calls from those outside their constituency. I am obviously not an expert, but if you have additional questions, ask them and I’ll try to help. I learned way more about how politics work during the last presidency than I thought humanly possible.

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#libraries #librarians #book bans #civic duty #speak up #west virginia

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hastiee · 9 months

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I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

~Slyvia path

#slyvia plath #art #english literature #literature #hamlet #poetry #poems on tumblr #shakespeare #prose #virginia woolf #books & libraries

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agelesslibrary · 1 year

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Poets are the painters of human experience, capturing the colors of their heart in verse.

— agelesslibrary

#poetry #books and libraries #reading #spilled poetry #literature #english literature #dark academia #bookworm #books #library #words #poem #poetsandwriters #virginia woolf #sylvia plath #love #romance #poets corner #poetblr

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vintagewildlife · 1 year

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A tree full of baby opossums By: Charles Philip Fox From: The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences 1958

#virginia opossum #opossum #marsupial #mammal #1958 #1950s #Charles Philip Fox #The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"I had tea. I then spent a long time in a bookshop. A quiet evening."

– Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

#this maybe a simple thing for you but for me these two sentences is my whole world #i love to do this #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #dark academism #dark academia aesthetic #words #literature #dark academia literature #literary quotes #book quotations #dark academia aesthetics #virginia woolf #lit #books and libraries

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angeleyes333x · 2 years

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thegirlthatcriesacademia · 2 years

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath // art by @/kosmiklia on ig // William Chapman // Virginia Woolf // Brian Andreas // artwork - flowers by Hanna Ilczyszyn // Elizabeth Kinkaid-Ehlers, Still Searching

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sulasnsleep · 9 months

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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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shisasan · 8 months

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Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse [originally published 1927]

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dark-romantics · 1 year

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there’s something so fucking magical about bookstores and libraries

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #classic literature #light academia aesthetic #english literature #virginia woolf #literature #librarylife #letters #lit #light academia #books and libraries #academia aesthetic #dark academia vibes #classic academia

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renthony · 2 months

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From the article:

As Republicans nationwide continue to sound the alarm about how children are supposedly being indoctrinated and “groomed” into adopting LGBTQ identities at school, West Virginia legislators are pushing a new kind of crackdown on books deemed “obscene.” The idea is as simple as it is chilling: make librarians and teachers criminally liable for providing such material to kids. House Bill 4654, introduced by Republican Delegate Brandon Steele, passed in the West Virginia House of Delegates on Friday by a vote of 85-12 and now heads to the state Senate. (The “nays” included all 11 Democrats in the House.) Rather than establishing a new law, HB 4654 would simply strike the first two exemptions to an existing code prohibiting the “preparation, distribution, or exhibition of obscene matter to minors.” These include any “bona fide school” presenting the content as part of a “local or state approved curriculum,” as well as any “public library, or museum, which is displaying or distributing any obscene matter to a minor only when the minor was accompanied by his or her parent.” Steele argued in the chamber ahead of the vote that removing those protections against criminal liability for teachers, librarians, and other educators is crucial to children’s safety. “I’m here to protect our young people and make sure they are not put in a vulnerable position where they are presented with pure pornography in an effort to groom them and prepare them for a potential sexual abuse or sexual assault,” he said. Tony Hodge, co-chair of the West Virginia GOP, warned that opponents of the bill “want obscene material available to children.” But the bill’s detractors say it’s a clear attempt to purge books and information that may challenge strict conservative values from institutions of learning. The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia noted that fearmongering about “pedophile librarians” brought HB 4654 out of committee and onto the House floor. “The bill is designed to create confusion for educators about what kinds of materials can be taught or displayed,” the nonprofit chapter posted last week on X (formerly Twitter). It also accused proponents of using examples of allegedly criminal content that did not meet the definition of obscenity. In the West Virginia criminal code, “obscenity” is — as elsewhere — broadly described. It includes matter “intended to appeal to the prurient interest,” or that an “average person, applying community standards, would find depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexually explicit conduct,” or that a “reasonable person would find, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Such wide-ranging definitions have been key to lawsuits attempting to restrict the availability of books about gender and sexual identity.

#west virginia news #censorship #book banning #libraries

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amicus-noctis · 6 months

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