hauntedhideaway

@hauntedhideaway@babka.social

Library director and author of Sherlock Holmes AU pastiche The Twisted Blackmailer. Into fundraising, nonprofit management, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who, Batman, The Phantom of the Opera and more. Convert to Judaism. HMU if our interests align. North Eastern USA.

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hauntedhideaway, 13 days ago to random

Here's the thing: the censorship issue doesn't just affect school and public libraries. It affects you too. If they succeed in getting books pulled from libraries and librarians fired or prosecuted, they won't stop at libraries. They're going to move on to book stores and your home book shelves. And then they're going to move on to speech outside of books that they don't like. They're not going to be satisfied at just stopping a few book checkouts and taking a few jobs at the library you don't even use, so it doesn't affect you. When your speech on the internet is monitored and "corrected," and when what you say out loud is criminalized, maybe you'll see that it affects you. It starts with getting an LGBTQ book off a public library shelf. It ends with the death of free speech. Don't let it come to that. #libraries

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llamajester421, 13 days ago

@hauntedhideaway Nazis always start by persecuting the queer, then impose fascism on everyone else, exterminating other groups too https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project Most people will realize this only after the next holocaust, sadly. They feel so self-righteous right now, thinking these books legitimately have to be taken off the shelves. BTW this book help started a whole genre of transfem literature that is not a memoir directed to a cis audience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_(Binnie_novel) It also features a section debunking "autogynephilia", a transphobic pseudoscientific trope against trans lesbians. Perhaps some will find this helpful. Don't forget the shadow libraries too! https://annas-archive.org/md5/b8eb2fc789819176dd5b8dfb86379ea5

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