As the editor of a book on this list, allow me to say again that book banning is a catastrophe for freedom of speech in America. There is no silver lining. It's all harm.
You can fight back by calling your reps to demand they vote against HR 7661, which is effectively a national book banning bill.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
I can relate. Some days in library feel like this.
Thank you @mccollum.house.gov for making this possible!
Cheez-Its do seem smaller!
Black and white photo of Carrie Robinson, a Black woman wearing a scarf and glasses. Text reads "Hidden Figures of ALA: Carrie Robinson". ALA150 American Library Association
In 1969, Carrie Coleman Robinson, a Black school librarian in Alabama, brought a landmark case to the U.S. District Court against the state's Department of Education—one that reveals much about the Jim Crow South and librarianship in the civil rights era. #ALA150
Read more: https://bit.ly/4tPI0db
It’s like this mashup of Broadway/municipal services was designed just for meeeeeee
So glad more libraries are going fine free! 🤣
men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
This is your reminder to look out for the Weinstein Effect.
Which is when the extreme horrors committed by men become the new bar for immorality. Anything “less than a Weinstein” is now tolerated, even if everyone agrees a man was violent or exploitative.
Don’t let abuses of power become the norm.
"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves
Image of a picture of a library book truck with the words “enter to win your own library cart!”
Peak library content
I wonder if JD Vance regrets killing Pope Francis now that Pope Chicago is in charge
can confirm
New icebreaker for my library team this week:
Other than a horse, what animal would you choose to ride into battle?
(Mythological and literary animals also acceptable.)
This is so disappointing. This bill is our best chance to align with other states in bringing publishers and vendors to the table to negotiate fair prices with public funding.
This.
POTUS Proposes Elimination of Federal Library Funding. The President again requested that Congress eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program. We've seen this before, and we're not going away. Fund Libraries, ALA 150, American Library Association.
!["We are not surprised that the White House FY27 budget zeroes out funding for IMLS and IAL. The president’s intentions for IMLS were clear last year with the executive order to dismantle IMLS and cut off its funding [...] ALA members have a solid track record of defeating the president’s threats, but we do not underestimate the lengths to which he will go to undercut support for America’s libraries. ALA is working to make sure decisionmakers continue to hear from library advocates.” - ALA President Sam Helmick](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreickyturajq3zv6n65qgp3wg2mexkm3x4lduf5a5armtx3tv5edrky)
"We are not surprised that the White House FY27 budget zeroes out funding for IMLS and IAL. The president’s intentions for IMLS were clear last year with the executive order to dismantle IMLS and cut off its funding [...] ALA members have a solid track record of defeating the president’s threats, but we do not underestimate the lengths to which he will go to undercut support for America’s libraries. ALA is working to make sure decisionmakers continue to hear from library advocates.” - ALA President Sam Helmick
NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again.
Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup
So proud my mother and grandfather taught me this bad-ass skill
PowerPoint slide with the title “how to survive and thrive in the politics of library leadership” presented by Maureen Hartman at the PLA conference
Nobody is more surprised than me to be presenting on this topic at @ala-pla.bsky.social. Library people—lean into politics—it’s just relationships and we know how to do that!
TransPractical PRESENTS KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Saturday, April 4 2:30 - 4:00 PM Room S275 RKMC Minneapolis Central Library REGISTER HERE! We are excited to welcome Ash Tifa and her incredible Community-centered Know your Rights workshop, this workshop will focus on what current bills affect the trans community and what getting a passport or gender marker change might look like, as well as many other rights currently being affected. All are welcome to this trans-centered space. TransPractical is a series of workshops addressing applied aspects of the transgender (trans) experience led by artists and educators who identify as trans or gender non-conforming (GNC). Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library
This Saturday 4/4 Hennepin County Library is hosting me to lead a Queer and Trans-centered Know Your Rights Clinic
Registration is still open, and the event will be hybrid with virtual options for accessibility
register here: hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/69a9d...
Lovely description of @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social Read Brave program last month and our wonderful partnership with @rominagarber.bsky.social and Immigrant Kitchen. Thank you @mayorher.bsky.social and everyone who shared their 💕 with us! www.womenspress.com/read-brave-t...
Thanks for this reflection. It was meaningful to me.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government.
It's not only ok to throw out books, it is necessary
I wrote about women doing their husband's job-searching — there's truly so much going on here:
www.patreon.com/posts/154012...
Photo of a protest sign reading: 70° Warmer than the last time We did this shit
Best sign contender already spotted
Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
