
Jan 5 • 1HR 9M
The Right Wing War on Libraries
This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for people who can already write okay, but want to do better.
As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking controversial, attention-getting discourse, we have a new piping hot take for you here today: libraries are good. But in this country, libraries are under attack by a small but zealous movement among the far-right.
Links:
USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes
Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books
Banned in the USA: the Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools
A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
(header image via pcorreia)