The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles.

By Brittany Allen

https://lithub.com/the-defense-department-wants-to-ban-hundreds-of-books-here-are-the-weirdest-titles-to-make-them-mad/

#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Thinking of the Children: #BookBans, #Censorship, and #Literature for Young People

For this online conference, organizers invite contributions from #scholars at all career stages, from #librarians and #archivists, and from #teachers at all levels, to consider #BookBanning and censorship of literature for young people, past and present.
#YALit #YA #Resist #CFP #Books

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/02/thinking-of-the-children-book-bans-censorship-and-literature-for-young-people

Amanda Jones @abmack33 is "That Librarian" who stands up against #bookbans in the US - more important than ever now during #PrideMonth
Her book, part #memoir and part manifesto, has now been added to our #library collection. Find it here:

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1900831007

"Miami schools weren't great when I went through them, and now I have a lot more concerns about schools in #Florida, especially in St. Augustine, where we live. When we looked at schools in Florida, I noticed that some library shelves were bare. It was a poignant visual representation of policies such as #BookBanning.
"There are also tons of funding cuts in Florida." Insider https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/im-moving-family-florida-connecticut-175402309.html

"Jones is impatient with the outsize expectations laid at the feet of librarians. She stresses that the extent of what librarians owe their patrons, including the care they provide to those who wander in through their library doors, is elastic but not infinite."

Melina Moe considers #AmandaJones’s #ThatLibrarian: The Fight Against #BookBanning in America”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-librarians-found-themselves-on-the-front-line-of-the-culture-war/

#USpol #bookbans #censorship #wokebashing #moralPanics #cyberharassment #memoirs #libraries #books @bookstodon

The only reason to ban/remove a book or quash an idea is because you know your own ideas are flawed and you're afraid of that reality.

Either that or there's money involved. #politics #bookbanning

: #bookbans #bookbanning #books #democrats #uspol #uspolitics :

The latest on book bans:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/most-book-ban-requests-are-coming-from-organizations-officials-theyre-targeting-lgbtq-authors/?utm_edition=202504110100

https://thewalrus.ca/book-banning/

I subscribe to the Walrus, you should too.

Gibt's schon ein Torrent mit den Banned Books, das mensch auf die Seed List setzen kann?

The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.

via https://pen.org/report/cover-to-cover/

So, by law in Hungary books with any #LGBTQ content have to be sold with the warning "Non-traditional content!"

On top of being sinister, his system is also:

1. Ironically useful, because Hungarian bookshops didn't have queer sections before, so the label actually makes queer content a lot easier to find

2. Low key surreal when the label is put on folktales, Greek mythology, or biographies like Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls...

3. Useless and dumb

The banning of books has been a #Republican fascist theme for some time now.

There are many books being banned right now that won’t get as much publicity as Julianne Moore’s Freckleface Strawberry.

But that doesn’t make taking a book about a child being bullied due to their appearance off school and library shelves any less wrong.

#Trump
#BookBanning

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/a-great-shock-julianne-moores-childrens-book-under-review-by-trump-administration

The list of filthy books being infiltrated into our libraries is quite extensive. I do not make this accusation lightly, and to be sure of my facts I visited a library in a nearby county.
https://buff.ly/3WP3gBI

Sigh. The book-banners in my town are popping up on NextDoor. Time to speak back.
#maga #bookbanning

Arkansas Book-Banning Law Declared Unconstitutional
The Arkansas law would have subjected librarians and bookstore owners to criminal prosecution
https://www.ala.org/news/2024/12/arkansas-book-banning-law-declared-unconstitutional
#BookBanning #Censorship #Libraries #Bookstores