The Right’s War on Libraries
Rite Gud
English - January 05, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB - ★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
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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:
America’s Culture Warriors Are Going After Librarians
USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes
The Strain of Censorship on Public Libraries
State of America’s Libraries Report 2022
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
The artificial growth of hate speech
What does ‘woke’ mean? Whatever Ron DeSantis wants.
The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (the Third Place)
A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
Eric Adams cuts library budget
ALA office for intellectual freedom
ALA get involved Unite Against Book Bans
Customers get mad when you hand them flowers
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
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