No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books

No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books | Tracy Tennant

This is from February I think, but I‘m just reading it now & thought I would share.

Link here:

https://cornell1a.law.cornell.edu/blog/index.php/clinic-files-lawsuit-against-id...

Riveted_Reader_Melissa “The complaint also targets a unique feature of HB 710 that permits both state law enforcement and private citizens to bring legal challenges against schools and libraries that fail to restrict minors‘ access to materials deemed “harmful to minors.” Private citizens that file complaints against such schools or libraries receive a $250 award if they are successful in their challenge”. 🙄 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa “The complaint also alleges that HB 710 expressly targets works that contain “any act of homosexuality,” including non-sexual acts like handholding and hugging between two characters of the same gender. According to the complaint, such a blatant restriction constitutes a violation of the First Amendment and the and Fourteenth Amendment‘s Equal Protection Clause.” So no mothers hugging your daughter in books I guess 🤪 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books | Tracy Tennant

Link to list:

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMO...

Link to website above where the link is at:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4...

#Censorship + #BannedBooks = #FutureReadingGoals

Susanita 19 pages! 🤬 3w

ManyWordsLater I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Well if you curate out anything to do with racism, gender, feminism, or transgender…you maybe are not curating a collection on a specific topic but removing a complete topic. For instance….race books out, Mein Kampf in…you could say more war history related…. But also out as feminism books about the underground movement of women in Afghanistan….which was probably pretty important in a fairly recent war. So I think it‘s the how, why, & ⤵️

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ purpose. I am not a librarian, I should add. But I would think curating a collection is different from say removing from a library. My public library has the library, and a separate curated section on local history….but that does not mean they removed every book from the main library on any other subject. 3w

shortsarahrose @ManyWordsLater - I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa And why on earth Maya Angelou needed to be cut, only makes sense if it‘s a military curated collection…. But I did not see any other books of American classics novels of that sort listed. Just hers. And I find it hard to believe there was only 1 classic literature book in the library. No Steinbeck for example.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you! I knew we needed a librarian! When in doubt, always ask a librarian. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Susanita right! I had heard about it when it happened, but today was the first time I had seen a complete list. Very interesting what topics the removed books seemed to be centered around. And so nice they included the topics for each books, and I‘m assuming the rational for pulling them. 3w

ncsufoxes It‘s an odd collection of books, meaning it‘s kind of all over the place. A few repeated titles (some have different publication dates but some are repeated 2-3xs). There are only a few fiction books. I‘m surprised The 1619 Project wasn‘t on there. It is interesting to see what they find intimidating. My guess is whoever curated this list probably hasn‘t read one of these books. They probably used AI to generate the list. 3w

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KathyWheeler

No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books | Tracy Tennant

1: Absolutely. I most recently read Gender Queer simply because of attempts to ban it. I also read Looking for Alaska and The Poet X for this reason.
2: Probably so. The American Library Association has only been keeping lists since 1990 and my mother didn‘t censor my reading; instead she encouraged me to read widely, so I‘m sure I read controversial books.
3. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
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