7. Even Red: A Crayon’s Story—a book about a blue crayon mislabeled as red, meant to teach kids about resisting labels and being your own person—has made the list.
3. The proposal is buried in a section on explicit content and obscenity. Alongside pornography and graphic material, a new provision tells libraries what they cannot make available to anyone under 18. It reads:
4. The regulation, pushed by anti-LGBTQ+ groups like Clean Up Alabama, is a transparent attempt to dictate what young people are allowed to read. They have compiled a blacklist of books under the proposal, and nearly all of them are by LGBTQ+ authors or about LGBTQ+ topics.
Books
1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.
The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.
The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.
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6. Another, Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Transgender Senator, is a simple political biography, which one challenger states “should be removed and destroyed.”
5. One is Calvin, a picture book about a transgender child—with no sexual content whatsoever.
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2. One of the earliest features of the anti-trans panic was book bans. Early bans tried to cloak it in "neutral language" targeting "gender and sexuality" (always allowing for straight sexuality).
Now, the mask is off. The APLS would force libraries to remove "positive depictions" of trans people.
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9. Submit written letters to the Alabama Public Library Service directly, request to speak at the September 18th or October 21 hearing in Montgomery, or use Read Free Alabama’s tool to automatically send a pre-written letter to the board.
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8. The fight over Alabama’s library codes is not going unchallenged. Groups like the Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition and Read Free Alabama are mobilizing against the proposed restrictions. They’ve laid out clear steps for residents who want to resist.
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From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha
This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.
Saw the cutest thing at Yellowstone after Bozeman Pride. Baby bears 50 feet up in a tree playing while mama munched on leaves nearby.
Swim faster, Riley.
Maybe you'll get more than 5th place next time.
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