Trust Me...Book Banning Isn't a Hoax
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- Hey ya'll. I went back and forth about making this video, but I think it was time for me to talk about it again. Trust me when I say, book banning isn't a hoax. It's real and it's impacting the lives of so many individuals on a daily basis. It's a topic that should be taken seriously in the book community. Please feel free to share your thoughts respectfully in the comments down below. If you can, please help and advocate for your communities in any way possible.
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10:16 this is all madness, but particularly mad is moving books on puberty to an adult-only section - who the fuk needs them there, weâve already gone through puberty!?!
Exactly!
I feel ill for all librarians navigating this hellaciousness. Imagine doing your job with the threat of jail or firing because you put a childrenâs book, that has been carefully selected and curated by the librariesâ purchasers, into the mfâing childrenâs section. Librarians have Masters Degrees, ffs! And then the lost access for the children who need these books, need to see themselves in books, who need to know that society accepts them, etc. Well, my heart breaks in half for those babies. Thank you for informing us âĪ
Again bullseye!! Exactly and all of these!!
Thank you for doing the Lords work. Some people do not realize that children need access to diversity even more than adults do. Libraryâs are a place of knowledge we should not be controlling knowledge
I saw a book targeted towards educating children on eating healthy/listening to their bodies being bannedâĶit brings me to tears to think how many books are being taken off shelves and banned because they have POWER. information is power! knowledge is power! and our government is so scared of its people being educated. so so scared. thank you for speaking out as always.
For years and even now, I donât see how people donât understand access and how it relates to the resources that Libraries provide.
This!
The last time I visited the library, I noticed they'd moved the entire adult graphic novel section halfway across the library from where it was before. It had been on the opposite side of the shelf from teen graphic novels. I live in a blue area of a blue state, with an anti-book ban law on the books, and the library is taking these steps. No place is safe.
@@ribbonquest did that feel shocking to see? i imagine it would
@@marisagettas Absolutely. It's like reality warped around me.
If I ask, what state do you live in? I only ask because I want to make sure it's not the same state I love in. ðĪ
I sell books to teachers and institutions for a living. Tennessee teachers are scrambling against a vague law that says they will no longer get their funding if they violate it. We've redone quotes all week. Thank you for speaking on this.
I think the heartbreaking thing for me is that, as a librarian who catalogs, with the new state book awards is that our ya librarian manager has to evaluate them...and one of them is about SA...and that book may not be able to reach someone who needs it.
I don't comment frequently, but I just want to say thank you so much for all the time and work you have put into speaking about book challenges and banning over the years. Your channel is where I learned to pay attention to the ALA and Pen America, and the reason I now try to educate others around me about censorship and reach out to my reps!
Thank you so, so, SO much for making this video. I'm 25, a graduate student in library science, and I am hoping to be in youth services when I finish my degree. Right now, I'm terrified. Simply terrified. The state of book banning and challenging in the U. S. IS insanity and horrifying, and we absolutely need to call it as such. Thank you also for speaking about people not necessarily having expendable income for books, because books ARE expensive, and some people can only get them through their school or public library. Please keep making these videos because it helps people who aren't in the industry stay informed and educated
Thank you for coming back to talking about this topic âĪ
You are the reason Iâm so hip on the topic and my library. So I said that to say thank you !!!
Say that again!
Thank you for speaking about banning books - I'm so glad that you as a librarian have a platform to give insight to an issue and can say more than "buy banned books!"
Every year during Banned Books Week, I have parents that think that because it's not an issue for them, it must mean the problem doesn't exist. Last year, we could talk about banned books week in the library, but we could use the words "Banned Books Week" online or on a flyer, and we weren't allowed to share pictures of elaborate displays or activities that we had to raise awareness on book bans because the decorations said "banned books." It's too Orwellian - ban the language so that it becomes impossible to talk about anything.
Banning books is never an end point - it's a starting point. After you ban the books, you ban the people involved in making books accessible, then attack the people that create the books, and so on.
Sorry for the rant.
Iâm right there with you in the frustration department. My son is 5. I couldnât imagine a world where Iâm not actively engaged in what heâs reading at this age and probably until heâs an older teen. The government doesnât need to parent my son thatâs my job. I canât even imagine kids who need the representation in these books getting denied access to them. Iâm so tired every day of these book banners!!! Let us parent our own damn children.
I always say- how concerned are those parents who are wanting book bans about what their child is viewing a d posting on their smartpbone?
The classes I am taking in my final semester of library school right now are about collection development and inclusive and accessible materials for children and young adults. I am constantly surrounded by the political climate of books and libraries right now, between school and work and social media, etc. Itâs exhausting, but itâs important. I know the teens that use my library and my library is in a privileged position but I fear having to deprive them of materials and resources I know they need. I need the library to be a safe place for them. My perspective on some of my coworkers has irrevocably changed in the last few months as I see how they react to events in our library environment. Itâs all so real and so close to home and Iâm scared. Iâve been following you through and before my time in library school and your perspective and your channel has been such an inspiration and resource to me as I begin working in youth librarianship and navigate and persist through this difficult time. I really want to thank you for that.
Thank you as always for bringing your expertise to just an important issue. And Thank you for the work you do every day
This video is definitely needed ! Absolutely needed ! This is the information that needs to be shared! Someone who knows what theyâre actually talking about. Definitely lit a fire under my ass to get this information out and shared ! Subscribe âð―
honestly grateful to hear from you on this subject, especially the part where you remind people that it's not gonna stop at those already targeted and emphasizing access for community. thank you ð
A few years ago our first selectmen sided with a mom that wanted to remove a rupaul book from the childrenâs libraryâĶ it was one of the who is books. Fortunately we live in CT and it was quickly shut down by the town and library board. Scary times. Also that first selectmen thankfully was not reelected.
thank you for continuing to speak on this.
Thank you for all the essential work you do and encouraging other to get involved. Your community is lucky to have youðŧ
agree absolutely with everything you said here. i'm really worried about a lot of the laws and rhetoric that's increasing around book bans (especially the content they're banning).
Thank you for the time, effort and dedication that you put into getting this information out there. As crazy as things are currently in the US, the one silver lining that I am counting on is people (those against this foolishness) who have not been politically engaged are getting real motivated and active. Hope that continues. ð
Thank you for continuing to bring attention to this important topic!
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Gods, yes. Moms of/for/whatever Liberty are the worst offenders of doing this. Half of them either don't have a child in that school district or the ones that do go after books that wouldn't even been in a school library (like romantasy books this *school* year alone.). I live in a 'blue' state and yet, our county libraries and schools are being attacked by country tr**pers. I feel for you and your fellow librarians stuck in these awful situations. We haven't had any big push back but there are parents that still come in and complain, off the record types that say stuff like 'Ugh, my kid only reads graphic novels, they should ban those books and bring back literature'. and I'm like...maybe you should parent your own kid or mind your business. We specifically have an event during the school year that selects one book by a marginalized author (one year it was Long Way Down by Mr. Jason Reynolds) and I cannot imagine if those kids had push back from parents for reading a book that centers gun violence. (Or the first one was Dear Martin by Nic Stone, which is about pol**e Brutus and rac**m.) Sorry, ranting! Take the weekend, hug your little one and prepare for the long marathon.
This is such a scary topic honestly. The amount of teachers and school librarians that have to ask about the content in things like manga that they don't naturally read, is staggering. They can't even trust what the rating on the back says, because of the way that some parents are. I do not envy what is happening in the library systems. This is why when it comes to some things, I encourage people to read before they buy, even if it's just sitting in the bookstore and reading it. I love the libraries. I just wish that libraries could carry anything they felt they should and could. ðŦ