I love this.
Karen Smith was sworn in as school board pres in PA Central Bucks School District; not on the Bible but on a stack of banned books.
Books include Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust survival memoir “Night, ”Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”; Donna Gephart’s “Lily and Dunkin,” with a transgender main character; George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” growing up Black and LGBTQ+; Mike Curato’s graphic novel “Flamer”; and Susan Kuklin’s “Beyond Magenta.”
"Among books that are no longer available to students in Clay County because of this action are critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, including A Fault In Our Stars, The Handmaid's Tale, and Story of a Girl."
Also #banned Julian is a Mermaid and Ready Player One.
Why not the Bible? That's violent and obscene. Nevermind, smart people who actually read know why not. #bookstodon#books#Florida
Well, my #zine on how to start a radical, fighting #union has officially been #Banned on #Facebook ! Several posts from several people have been removed. From up to a year and a half ago! So why not check it out? If Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read it, there must be something good in there, right?
I have been banned and censored by TikTok, libeled by influencers in the publishing world with lies, dishonored and smeared when I won an award for my creative work, and have had armies of assholes delete all references to me and my work on Wikipedia. A major corporate media company even stole the name and the logo of a creative project I have put years of my life into.
And yet I keep returning like a stubborn phoenix.
Will there ever come a time in which I get a modicum of respect? Probably not. But at least I tell the truth and I live and create entirely on my own terms. And that's worth more than all the fame and influence in the world.
I'm sure there are many people, far smarter and more talented than I am, who are in the same boat. Try to throw the troublemakers and the misfits a bone now and then. I always do.
As many as 180,000 people would gather to light candles in #Victoria#Park to remember June 4th 1989,
when China’s army brought a bloody end to weeks of peaceful pro-democracy protests in Beijing.
(China has never put a figure on the number who died in what it terms a counter-revolutionary incident.)
Hong Kong’s vigils became a symbol of #defiance of mainland authority
and an ardent evocation of the city’s #independence.
“It was magnificent,” says one resident. “We wanted to make [the massacre] known, not just in Hong Kong, but throughout the world.”
🔥 Organising such a vigil would be unthinkable now.
The commemoration was #banned in 2020, ostensibly because of covid-19.
Some 20,000 people gathered anyway.
The following month the central government in Beijing imposed a draconian national-security law on the territory,
a response to large pro-democracy protests in 2019.
The authorities have since snuffed out memories of Tiananmen.
Memorials have been removed.
The commemoration’s organisers have been jailed;
-- in March they lost a bid to overturn their conviction.
Wearing black or lighting candles near Victoria Park on June 4th may now be considered criminal activity.
This year, like the last, the park is filled with food trucks instead of candles.
Pro-Beijing groups have organised a carnival in the vigil’s stead.
“Huckleberry Finn,” a book written by Mark Twain, is a famous American story. But, some schools in the U.S. don’t let students read it. Even though it is an important book, some people don’t like how it talks about race and uses bad language. It has now a censored version, too.
I was today years old when I found out that #scifi#books are #banned in prison! "Is the banning of fantastical #literature in prisons just carceral paranoia—or it is indicative of a larger cultural attitude that simultaneously denigrates and fears imagination? After all, prisons are part of U.S. culture which, despite a thriving culture industry that trafficks in #magic and #fantasy nonetheless degrades it as lesser than realism."
Firestorm Books is giving away 22,500 books rescued from the public schools in Florida’s Duval County (Jacksonville and surrounding areas). Find out more, order some books, and make “Meatball Ron” cry!
#CanadaPost is refusing to collect #firearms that were #banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa's plans for a #BuybackProgram to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say.
The Crown corporation informed the government of its position in a recent letter. It said its decision was based on concerns about its employees' security, according to federal sources who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
#book#banned#stupid#alabama
Can't make this stuff up. The tyranny of the mob is in full force. Of course it's a southern state. In this case, the backasswards state of Alabama.
Children's book put on watch list in Alabama because its author's last name is 'Gay'
Why is Huckleberry Finn banned in schools in the US? (gearsrealm.com)
“Huckleberry Finn,” a book written by Mark Twain, is a famous American story. But, some schools in the U.S. don’t let students read it. Even though it is an important book, some people don’t like how it talks about race and uses bad language. It has now a censored version, too.