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Loretta Young as Mary Martin in Midnight Mary (1933, dir. William A. Wellman)

Anti-Book Banning Bingo

1. Coming into MY GOSH DANG LIBRARY, going into the kids’ section, and taking books with titles like “things you are too afraid to ask your parents” or “julian is a mermaid” and either hiding them or straight up stealing them

2. Trying to get teachers and librarians labeled as sex offenders for having books like the above available for children to read

3. Forming giant groups to heavily pressure schools and libraries into removing this content

4. Trying to strip funding from schools and libraries who have The Bad Content

Also it is an absolutely wild point to make that reading banned books is useless. It is actually vital that adults know exactly what is in the books people are trying to ban. Book banners share salacious portions of books specifically to take advantage of people's ignorance and make books seem more sexual/controversial then they are. Understanding the context of a sexual scene, or reading the whole of To Kill A Mockingbird, is not useless. Also when you look at these details you can find connecting threads between banned books.

Like in Alberta, many of the banned books discuss sexual abuse, which is important to know because fighting bans against sexually explicit material looks different than fighting bans against "critical race theory" in books.

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"it is right now"

"ok everyone's super, super fired. now what"

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Blue Heron (2025, Sophy Romvari)

1. Do not do age verification.