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February 4 - February 12, 2025
“Now… the way we’re able to talk about menstruation and periods, without fear—it starts with Judy Blume and what she started with that one book.”
Margaret
“I see a bright young girl with a full life ahead of her,” she explains patiently. “And she’s rearranging it to follow a man around.”
Nope
“Democracy is exhausting,”
Wait until it falls
“When we elected Ronald Reagan and the conservatives decided that they would decide not just what their children would read but what all children would read, it went crazy,” Blume told the Guardian in 2014, of the challenges against her books that began in the early 1980s. “My feeling in the beginning was wait, this is America: we don’t have censorship, we have, you know, freedom to read, freedom to write, freedom of the press, we don’t do this, we don’t ban books. But then they did.”
And it’s worse in 2025
parents have a right to control what their own children read but cannot unilaterally make those decisions for other families.
100%
“That’s what happens when they start banning books,” Bobbie Setzer, a local bookstore manager, told the AP. “Everyone wants to read them.”
bribg attention
School librarian Julia Loving said that she makes a priority of reminding her students that access to a wide range of books is a privilege,
No shit
