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Judd Legum @JuddLegum wrote: BREAKING

The school board in Escambia County, Florida just voted to BAN AND TANGO MAKES THREE, the true story of two male Penguins who lived in the Central Park Zoo

The pair build a nest together and raise an adopted child, Tango

There is no sexual content of any kind

2. The book was challenged by an English teacher in Escambia County, Vikki Baggett

Baggett said the book promoted the "LGBTQ agenda using penguins" and the purpose of the book is "indoctrination."

An Oklahoma teacher faced death threats after she helped students access banned books. She says she's more scared for students than for herself.

Yelena Dzhanova
Sat, February 25, 2023 at 3:30 PM GMT+1

• An Oklahoma teacher who helped students access banned books faced death threats.
  Summer Boismier left her teaching job and now works at the Brooklyn Public Library.
  The threats still rattle her, but she's more worried that teens and kids are losing access to books.

An Oklahoma teacher who said she lost her job after helping her students access banned books is speaking out against the growing movement to censor books in schools.

Summer Boismier used to work as a high school English teacher in Oklahoma.

In 2021, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law to limit student engagement with critical race theory, gender identity, and sexuality in the classroom.

As soon as the bill was passed, Boismier gave her students a QR code that led them to the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned project, which allows them to read the very books that their own school officials deemed not appropriate. Books that have been popularly challenged are often about or feature people of color, LGBT people, and people with disabilities, according to the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association.

Boismier said she soon began receiving complaints, scary threats, and harassing messages across her social media platforms and emails.

"There've been countless individuals who've wanted me criminally charged, who've suggested at various points and times and comment sections across the internet," Boismier told Insider. "Individuals who've called for my prosecution and even my execution."

Some of them called for her sterilization, she said.

Boismier resigned from her teaching job and moved 1,500 miles away from her home to Brooklyn, New York, where she began working for the Brooklyn Public Library.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/oklahoma-tea ... 00881.html

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:14 pm I used to think almost anybody would recognize that a country was on a bad path when you started book banning. I guess I was wrong.

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 4:04 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:14 pm I used to think almost anybody would recognize that a country was on a bad path when you started book banning. I guess I was wrong.

For the Reich wing of America, it's a feature, not a bug...

Arizona Senate OKs making list of books to ban in schools

State senators gave preliminary approval Thursday to a measure directing the Education Department to come up with a list of books to ban in public schools.

And it wouldn’t just include lewd or sexual materials.

SB1700 would require the department, now headed by elected Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, to also include on that list materials that “promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns.’’

The measure includes similar language on what local school boards and school libraries would be required to remove from shelves.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:14 pm I used to think almost anybody would recognize that a country was on a bad path when you started book banning. I guess I was wrong.

Parent thanks Utah for book banning law that makes it 'so much easier' to challenge the 'sex-ridden' Bible

Kenneth Niemeyer
Sun, March 26, 2023 at 5:34 PM GMT+2

• A Utah parent asked that the Bible be removed from a high school because of its "sex-ridden" nature.
  The state lawmaker who sponsored the bill said the request was a "mockery" of the law.
  Laws banning certain kinds of books have plagued multiple states in recent years.

A Utah parent said that a book ban law passed in the state made it "much easier" to request that the Bible be removed from schools for its "sex-ridden" content.

According to a complaint filed against Davis High School in December 2022, recently obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, the unnamed parent thanked the state legislature for making it "way more efficient" to request book bans.

"Now we can all ban books and you don't even need to read them or be accurate about it," the complaint says, with just a hint of sarcasm. "Heck, you don't even need to see the book!"

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed H.B. 374 — also called the Sensitive Materials in Schools Act — into law in March 2022. The bill bans books with "pornographic or indecent" material from schools and school libraries. Critics of the bill say it has been used to disproportionately target books written by people of color and books with LGBTQ themes.

Book bans have plagued US schools in recent years across multiple states, including Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas and Florida. In September 2022, the Oklahoma education secretary threatened to revoke the teaching license of a teacher who gave her students a link to the Brooklyn Library's banned books database.

Utah Parents United — a conservative parents group that pushes for book bans in schools — has requested that some books be removed from Davis High School, which is about 20 miles north of Salk Lake City, according to the complaint.

"I noticed there's a gap, though," the parent said in the complaint. "Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: The Bible. Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide."

The parent said that the legislature would "no doubt find" that the Bible violates the state's new law because it has "'no serious values for minors because it's pornographic by our new definition."

"Get this PORN out of our schools! If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk," the parent wrote in the complaint.

State Rep. Ken Ivory, a Republican who sponsored the bill, told The Tribune that the request to ban the Bible from Davis High School was "antics that drain school resources." Ivory did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Sunday.

"For people to minimize that, and to make a mockery of it, is very sad," Ivory said, according to the paper.

The Davis School District and Utah Parents United did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Sunday. Utah Parents United told The Tribune in a statement that "we believe in following the law."

"That's all we're asking schools to do," the group said, according to the paper.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/parent-thank ... 17229.html

The best thing about the #VelshiBannedBookClub is the community we've formed over the last year – our devoted members who write to us from all over the nation with questions for authors, suggested books, and moving stories – like that of 100-year-old Grace Linn. At the age of 99, Linn made a quilt – featuring the covers of banned and challenged books including some of our own features like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison and "Two Boys Kissing" by David Levithan. This week, Linn, who has known the fight for democracy intimately since losing her first husband in WWII, went viral addressing 500 people at a school board meeting in Martin County Florida and told them just how crucial books and reading truly are. “Every human being is just as important as any other,” says Linn, who continues her decades-long dedication to freedom, democracy, and the books that protect those two impossibly fragile things.
March 25, 2023

Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids wrote: An elementary school in Wisconsin has banned Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton’s duet ‘Rainbowland’ from their Spring concert because it “could be perceived as controversial”…think it went something like this

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:00 pm Not a book but a Dolly Parton/Miley Cyrus song. About acceptance. Can't have that.

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:29 pm Two women singing a duet - they must be lesbians!!!! Bane them!!!!

Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries
The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.

Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and the governor’s office, state funding for public libraries is very much on the chopping block in Missouri.

This comes after Republican House Budget Chairman Cody Smith proposed a $4.5 million cut to public libraries’ state aid last week in the initial House Budget Committee hearing, where Smith cited a lawsuit filed against Missouri by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU-MO) as the reason for the cut.

ACLU-MO filed the suit on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association (MLA) in an effort to overturn a state law passed in 2022 that bans sexually explicit material from schools. Since it was first enacted in August, librarians and other educators have faced misdemeanor charges punishable by up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine for giving students access to books the state has deemed sexually explicit. The Missouri law defined explicit sexual material as images “showing human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse,” “sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, sadomasochistic abuse,” or showing human genitals. The lawsuit claims that school districts have been pulling books from their shelves.

“The house budget committee’s choice to retaliate against two private, volunteer-led organizations by punishing the patrons of Missouri’s public libraries is abhorrent,” Tom Bastian, deputy director for communications for ACLU-MO said in a statement to Motherboard.

Wow. Two weeks ago a judge ordered the public library in Llano County, TX to return books banned by conservative activists.

Now, this week county officials will meet to discuss eliminating the library entirely.

More from @serrano_alej: texastribune.org/2023/03/31/tex…