Fuzzy Leapfrog (@fuzzyleapfrog@chaos.social)

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"[...] it is critical that librarians understand these recent book-banning attempts in their full context and recognize them for what they are; an explicitly political attempt to silence certain groups of people, and moreover, a small part of a much larger plan to invoke large-scale political change." #BookBans

Phillips & Ruud (2025). Censorship Is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Libraries, p. 28.

Picture of page 28 of the book "Censorship Is a Drag"

"Libraries frequently use claims of neutrality to assert a sense of apolitical detachment from the world at large. But it is critical that librarians understand these recent book-banning attempts in their full context and recognize them for what they are; an explicitly political attempt to silence certain groups of people, and moreover, a small part of a much larger plan to invoke large-scale political change."

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