My favorite thing to do❤️ collecting and reading the “banned lists.” This is but a tiny drop and lately, I’m grabbing up everything that I can-and filling little libraries as well.
So many glories to choose from! Hard to know where to start. But I'll go for "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit", by Jeanette Winterson. They'd undoubtedly be sobbing hysterically about it. It's an awesome book. Highly recommended!
I bought 6 used books that are definitely on that list. Snagged one for my spouse that Trump is trying to get book sellers to no longer carry since it does not show him in a good light. Why I insisted that he needed it. 😂
Time Terror by WJMcCormick is a small 2 story book about 3 African Americans, 2 of whom were accidentally sent into the year 1801.
Probably 10th grade level and not truly well written but it would be banned nonetheless.
They have neglected to include the book that contains:
Genocide
Incest
Sex
Magic
Magical Beings
Nudity
Talking Animals
War
Deceit
Adultery
Murder
Slavery
Rape
Human Sacrifice
Animal Sacrifice
Property Crime
Jealousy
Evil
and loads more nasty stuff.
Tango Makes Three. The book tells the story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who create a family together. With the help of the zookeeper, Mr. Gramsay,
I bought every book from one list (from a small independent store)- to date, I've read most of them. I'm still going through the list! I'm doing my part.
If she brought it, that would clarify to me that she in some way owns it. So therefore, thou who smelt it, delt it. Throw the book back at her. Get yourself a new copy that is curse-free.
To use my own understanding: Even people who aren't directly Nazi's want to paint a rosier picture of the Holocaust ala Boy in the Striped Pajamas which I had a choice in reading in elementary. On an individual basis it makes sense to cope with the sure size of the atrocity, but it's still misguided
I think the easiest way to put it is that a combination of historical revisionism ala Master x Slave romance stories now and a want to escape from the history that occurred for one that is more pleasant with the horrors in the background.
Using Maus' framing, it's a lot closer to not just cats and pigs but well meaning dogs who know that the horrors happened but feel a need to try and humanize the horrors for all.
I bring up Boy in the Striped Pajamas cause it paints the idea that a SS Nazi could care for their victim.
Sorry for the thread but I feel like it's poignant to point out that the line isn't always so clear cut: People might say that highlighting the claw marks on gas chamber doors is a bridge too far when in reality omitting that detail engages in further harm. It needs to be known it was THAT bad.
Ah, yes, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, where the true horror of the Holocaust occurs when the German son of a death camp commandant is accidentally gassed 🙄
For the last chunk of the semester my Children's Lit class is reading The First Rule of Punk, Lumberjanes vol. 1, & Answers in the Pages; all targets of Moms for Liberty.
TROLLED, vols 1 & 2, by Antti Palosaari. 🇫🇮 A grand total of 51 pages (so far) done as a comic, but it's a hilarious, bawdy, and very dark look at Finnish mythology and history as created by a really great artist/animator/historian.
Mothers for Liberty would 💩💩💩 bricks after the first frame.
Because of Winn Dixie. A woman in my church actually had a petition to ban. Why? The protagonist’s mother abandoned her. Too sensitive for the church woman’s adoptive kids. She refused to have her kids opt out. “Why would I do that and single my kids out?” No, just take bk away from everyone else
Thanks, guys. Now my to-read list is even more improbably long. So far this year I've finished Mad House, Gender Trouble, House of Hidden Meanings, American Eldercide, Careless People, We Should All Be Feminists, The Handmaid's Tale, On Bullshit, How Fascism Works, Mutual Aid, and Unbecoming.
You mean like, ‘My Mom and her Extra Special Friend, Patty’ or
‘Rainbow - How the Conservative Christian Right became Afraid of Pretty Colours… and basically anybody that’s Different from Them.’
I willingly accept you challenge!
Currently re-reading "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. Why, because stupid Pete Hegseth had it pulled off the library shelf of the Naval Academy.
Hegseth is so very stupid, it's best to do the opposite of anything he says.
I’ve got a book with stories about incest, witchcraft, mass murder, child abuse, prostitution, rape, mutilation, and talking animals, and the whole thing is just blatant socialist propaganda. It’s about 1,300 pages long.
It’s depicts Jewish characters as wrongdoers that need to be punished and controlled by an authority. Then in the second half, all the Jewish people live in Palestine and Israel doesn’t exist. That’s when the socialist indoctrination kicks into high gear.
Re-reading one of the family heirlooms "Under the North Star" series by Väinö Linna.
It's so well read I am learning how to restore a book on the side.
Except for children's books, I have read many books that would make them cry. MFL makes me dislike white mothers who want to control the world through their white gaze.
Me too! It really sneaks up on you. After I finished it, I thought it was really good. But then I just couldn't stop thinking about it, and realized just how brilliant it really was.
You’re welcome! Flattered you saw my post and downloaded it. I’m using Libro these days for audiobooks and I get to support my local bookstore when I purchase a book. Win! 🙌🏼 This month when you donate $15 to your local library they’ll give you a credit for a download. 🫶🏻
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline and its sequel Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Absolutely love this author and the subject matter of these two books in particular hit pretty close to home with current events.
Montaigne, _Essays_, “On Cannibals”, where good ol’ Michel lowkey suggests it might be fun if one of the king’s guards murdered the king and take his power.
This group is probably part of the 54% of Americans that read below a 6th grade level. The books they ban are just too sophisticated for them. The sad part is they glorify their ignorance.
What I find particularly hilarious about the book banners is that most of the books they fear like most people fear scorpions were in the schools WHEN THEY THEMSELVES were in school. But if you ask how THEY turned out, they’ll say they are fine, decent people.
So, all of the ones in my library since they are all illiterate drama mommas anyway.
You'd think they'd be home w/their kids if they are such 'great traditional mommies' instead of flying around to various school meetings to shit on things like garbage gulls.
I would struggle to find a book in my collection that they wouldn’t cry about. Maybe Anne of Green Gables, but even LM Montgomery had some harsh words for fascist rhetoric.
Just returned Animal Farm to the library but this week I'm reading a book called Dwarves by Markus Heitz because I need a break and get lost in some high fantasy before reality kills me
My parents bought me cartons of used books, including The Well of Loneliness. I was 12 when I read it. Moms for Liberty are FOS. I had no idea what it was about until I became an adult in college and read a review. All that longing made no impression on me at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness
This week? Nah. Every week. I
Homeschool my kids and we make sure to read the banned books. Because if someone is banning a book it’s because they’re afraid you’ll learn something from that book.
Heart skipped a beat today--a letter from the U.S. Dept of Justice. First thought was they're coming after activists for sedition (am a peacekeeper). What it says is am a potential victim of fictitious fundraising, for the GOP, by a Jason Pallante. No way that happened. Anyone else get this letter?
i have a fanfiction for warrior cats i've been working on in off for the past 6 years give or take and within just the alliance list there is allready multible LGBTQ cats.
first one was a typo i kept because why not
as for the second one, i will remove (Lesbian), i have that there as a reminder.
Ours keep showing up to the School Board meetings and reading passages from innocuous books completely out of context in a weird breathy voice to make it seem salacious. (They also have an Elvis-fan style fixation on the Board’s biggest bigot bully and follow him around in an unsettling way.)
I always have...spending $$$ on books is never a waste of money. I'm so lucky that my grandchildren are avid readers. Books were my refuge when I needed one and they remain my biggest source of comfort.
I’ve finally been getting into this novel and man, it’s some violent filthy stuff… 2 Samuel 11 is just nasty… sex and violence. It’s Sunday morning in New Zealand, so this filth could be pushed in a Sunday School near me! Think of the kids etc.
Yo… a little warning huh. WTF. Some nasty stuff. Do Christian’s not actually read their rule book? What worries me is somebody else is gonna come in with even worse deviant stuff…
I am not religious but I still treasure the family Bible I inherited. Going back hundreds of years, my family recorded not only births, deaths and marriages, but also their emigration from Ireland, moves after settling in the US and dates of their citizenship.
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Thoroughly enjoyed it
Probably 10th grade level and not truly well written but it would be banned nonetheless.
Genocide
Incest
Sex
Magic
Magical Beings
Nudity
Talking Animals
War
Deceit
Adultery
Murder
Slavery
Rape
Human Sacrifice
Animal Sacrifice
Property Crime
Jealousy
Evil
and loads more nasty stuff.
Or check my pinned thread.
Get it from Kobo if you can, not Amazon.
https://firstmakeitwork.org/2023/09/16/making-money-real/
https://momsforlibertywc.org/books/#ratings-legend-graphic
I bring up Boy in the Striped Pajamas cause it paints the idea that a SS Nazi could care for their victim.
There’s some serious misunderstanding of what free speech means. To these moms it means ‘I can say what I want, and you cannot.’
Weirdly that’s for books and not semi-automatics; and books not pornhub (or Facebook, X, Tik-Tok, Twitch)
Mothers for Liberty would 💩💩💩 bricks after the first frame.
I'm sure they ain't gonna like Lovecraftian Erotica
https://www.spacewhaledreams.com/books/whispers-of-the-abyss
Moms for Liberty, I don't even read real books like that anymore. Thanks for giving me the motivation, evil cunts.
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Take your pick! All guarenteed to make LibertyMoms scream, wail and gnash their teeth.
‘Rainbow - How the Conservative Christian Right became Afraid of Pretty Colours… and basically anybody that’s Different from Them.’
Currently re-reading "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. Why, because stupid Pete Hegseth had it pulled off the library shelf of the Naval Academy.
Hegseth is so very stupid, it's best to do the opposite of anything he says.
Mother” by Dr Seuss 🙏🏽💙🌈
I'll show myself out 😋
It's so well read I am learning how to restore a book on the side.
Beloved by Toni Morrison changed my brain and I am forever grateful
Sub
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You'd think they'd be home w/their kids if they are such 'great traditional mommies' instead of flying around to various school meetings to shit on things like garbage gulls.
Definitely qualifies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Monica Wood, How to Read a Book
Haig, The Humans.
Homeschool my kids and we make sure to read the banned books. Because if someone is banning a book it’s because they’re afraid you’ll learn something from that book.
first one was a typo i kept because why not
as for the second one, i will remove (Lesbian), i have that there as a reminder.
People would list members of the family and add children as they were born and memorialize deaths in the family.
Often a big resource in genealogy in the USA.
…jus’ sayin’.