Book Burnings?
Oct. 23rd, 2018 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogBook burnings? In my country? It's more likely than you think. (Actually, it doesn't surprise me, unfortunately.)
I just contacted this library to offer to pay for a replacement book or, if as many people have already offered to do that as I think probably have, to instead buy and donate an additonal LGBTQ-friendly children's book to the library. Maybe you could do the same, or even donate such a book to a library local to you in solidarity.
It is important to me to let people doing what I feel is good work know that they are supported.
(The article is about a religious zealot burning library books in front of the library, likely as a protest against an event in which drag queens read to children.)
http://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/after-man-burns-lgbtq-books-northwest-iowa-library-says-it-looking-options#stream/0
I just contacted this library to offer to pay for a replacement book or, if as many people have already offered to do that as I think probably have, to instead buy and donate an additonal LGBTQ-friendly children's book to the library. Maybe you could do the same, or even donate such a book to a library local to you in solidarity.
It is important to me to let people doing what I feel is good work know that they are supported.
(The article is about a religious zealot burning library books in front of the library, likely as a protest against an event in which drag queens read to children.)
http://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/after-man-burns-lgbtq-books-northwest-iowa-library-says-it-looking-options#stream/0
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Date: 2018-10-24 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-24 03:49 pm (UTC)Actually I do have some words. I'm going to send the group a postcard letting them know that they have inspired me to donate to buy more books and that I'm encouraging my friends to do the same, and that that's what happens when you attack a community of love from a place of hate.