herhandsmyhands,
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I said years ago (on twitter) that romance authors writing so-called 'clean' books to get away from the whole "mommy porn" bullshit were only enabling their own persecution. And today I'm proven right again: the bullshit-name "moms for liberty" fucker in Marion County FL has gotten 8 Nora Roberts books off high school library shelves, because "they're porn".

Read that again.

If you think that's porn, what you mean is that women's agency is your problem, not 'porn'

#NoraRoberts #BookBans

More text from a Washington Post piece: This signals a new trend: Book banners are increasingly going after a wide variety of titles, including romance novels, under the guise of targeting “pornography.” That term is a very flexible one — deliberately so, it appears — and it is sweeping ever more broadly to include books that can’t be described as such in any reasonable sense. Martin County is where 20 Jodi Picoult novels were recently pulled from school library shelves. This, too, was largely because of objections from that same Moms for Liberty activist, Julie Marshall, head of the group’s local chapter.
Further down the piece at the Washington Post: The basis for Marshall’s objections to Roberts’s books, according to parental objection forms obtained and provided to us by the Florida Freedom to Read Project, is this: “These books are adult romance novels. They have absolutely no reason to be in school libraries.” One can debate whether “adult romance novels” belong in high school libraries, but this process is absurd. That sole objection, with no elaboration, was lodged against a bunch of books written by a single author, leading to their removal. What’s more, the objection to Roberts’s books appears extremely flimsy. Four of those books, which make up “The Bride Quartet,” are about friends seeking love as they build their wedding-planning business. The books have some sex scenes, but the language is often vague enough that a child would have little idea what was happening. (“He touched, he tasted, he lingered until her quivers became trembles.”) And — spoiler alert — each book ends with a marriage proposal.
And more text from that same Washington Post piece: All this shows that red-state book crackdowns are designed to whip up frenzies of book-banning zealotry. Vaguely defined directives enable lone actors to purge whole stacks of books based on frivolous rationales, encouraging parents to hunt for offending books and officials to err on the side of removal. A new PEN America report found nearly 1,500 instances of schools banning books during the first half of the 2022-2023 year, increasingly based on them supposedly containing “pornography.” “Activists and politicians are inflating the notion of what constitutes ‘pornography’ beyond all recognition,” Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression at PEN, told us. They are going after “romance books, books about puberty or sex education and books that just have LGBTQ characters.” As Alan Elrod writes for Arc Digital, it’s no accident that activists slapping the “pornography” label on material they deem heretical frequently smear political opponents as “groomers” and “pedophiles.”

herhandsmyhands,
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

The Washington Post article is here (paywalled, apologies, I read it from a gift link)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/ron-desantis-book-ban-nora-roberts-florida/

herhandsmyhands,
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

To be clear: if you write genre romance books with zero sex because that's your jam, knock yourself out!

But when you proudly declare that you don't "write porn" like ::supercilious sniff:: those other romance authors who put sex in their stories?

Well, not only are you alienating a whole bunch of people who might have enjoyed your books, you are also throwing other people under the bus until they come for you too.

Because they will--it is all connected.

herhandsmyhands,
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

If your reaction to "they are banning NORA ROBERTS' books!" is, "well, that's okay, I write clean books" or "time to clean up my books", all you are doing is collaborating until it's your turn under the blade.

They are coming for your agency.

Melanie76Nicole,

@herhandsmyhands yeah they don’t care if there is sex in your books. They just want all books gone so they can teach you their truth and their ways. 😡😡😡😡Moms for Liberty is not about liberty at all.

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