Tag Archives: This Book is Gay
Local Focus
Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged ALA, children, Culture, election, family, Gender Queer, Illinois, Lawn Boy, libraries, local election, Lolita, Presidential election, This Book is Gay, Vladimir Nabokov
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What’s a Library For?
The British destroyed our original Library of Congress and the 3,000 books it housed, in 1814 during the War of 1812... Today, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and holds 173 million items, 39 million of them are books. Every day 15,000 items are added to the collection by the library's 3,000 employees.
Posted in Education, Illinois Politics, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged American Library Association, book banning, British, children, Congress, Crank, drag queen, Drag Queen Story Hour, Ellen Hopkins, Emily Drabinski, It’s Perfectly Normal, Judeo-Christian values, library, Library of Congress, Marxist, Russian Revolution, This Book is Gay, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, What’s a Library For?
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Replacing Education with Activism
Librarians and teachers, coast to coast, once again have been sounding the alarm over a new wave of book bannings rolling across the land. A recent call to arms involved a middle school teacher in central Illinois who was forced to resign her position in March because she showed a controversial book to members of her class.
Posted in Education
Tagged Bela Kun, Gyorgy Lukacs, Hayworth Junior High School, Igniting Social Action in the ELA Classroom, Illinois State University, Juno Dawson, Robyn Seglem, Sarah Bonner, This Book is Gay, Victor Zitta
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