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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Pre-emptive book banning

Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to publish her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.

Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place...

https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain

Cover of Maggie Tokuda-Hall's Love in the Library https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110189316980047283

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