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"We’re all tired.
The coordinated attacks on everything from Drag Queen story hours to Pride
displays to individual books in libraries is going into its second year.
While many have been waking up to this — which happens when it’s not just in
those red communities, but in your own as well — we’re hitting the point of
quitting.
In this week’s recap of the American Booksellers Association’s Winter
Institute, the response to book bans was a resounding…we don’t have solutions.
What do you mean you don’t have solutions?
As the largest organization for booksellers whose majority are not public
employees and thus, not subject to the laws and governance of the public, this
level of giving up is complicity. It is lazy, it is unethical, and it’s
blatantly incorrect.
How many of us have laid out the solutions for you, week after week, day after
day, for nearly two years? Who have done the work for you in writing talking
points, in petitions, in tireless and often thankless (and stolen and
uncredited) work that exposes exactly who is behind the rise of fascism book
bans."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
