Martha Hickson
@sassylibrarian.bsky.social
📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
No country that arrested librarians and booksellers was on the right side of history. But that's what's happening in Arkansas, and book banners aim to replicate that lousy legislation across the country. Speak up! Take action! Fight back!
Arresting Librarians AND Booksellers in the United States
History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.
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Mr. Snicket speaks: “The trouble is, we wouldn't all agree on which parts of which books fit this definition [of offensive] … For this reason, the best way is the American way – to allow all sorts of books … so that everyone might have the freedom to decide for themselves.”
Book bans in Tennessee won’t stop readers or ideas | Opinion
Lemony Snicket slams Tennessee officials for removing books from libraries and limiting freedom of expression.
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Reading this on the deck today & came upon a passage that sounded wise … and familiar. I looked up the endnote: It’s a quote from my entry in Trouble in Censorville 😂 How to Defend Books & Why is terrific! Loads of practical advice. Recommend it to library allies in your town. @dannycaine.com
Today in retirement: Made a hammered flower apron at the Stockton Center on Successful Aging @stocktonupac.bsky.social
Locking up librarians and booksellers in AR. Locking up women who travel out of state for healthcare in TX. Locking up people for being brown in pretty much every state. Anyone seeing a pattern here? And don't forget, due process is only available if you can afford it.
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
bookriot.com
“I pray if a prayer has been used as a sword against you and your heart, against you and your word I pray that this prayer is a plowshare, of sorts I pray that you’re heard and I pray that this works” spencerlajoye.bandcamp.com/track/plowsh...
Plowshare Prayer, by Spencer LaJoye
track by Spencer LaJoye
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Today in retirement: Made a glass garden at the Stockton Center on Successful Aging @stocktonupac.bsky.social
Our crepe Myrtle tree has turned our deck into an abstract painting
Meet. dizzie! She got a death sentence at #nycacc and is begging for a foster and reposts so she can find one to save her! Be her hero! Smash that middle option so she can be seen! Thank u 🙏
Grateful-1.bsky.social@grateful-1.bsky.social · 3d ago🤣🎶🤣🎶🤣🎶🤣🎶🤣...These NO good Fools ONLY wish they had this Talent, Danny‼️ @larry46.bsky.social @grandmamaryjoan.bsky.social @catjoe.bsky.social @roamjaxson.bsky.social @chloemarie21.bsky.social @pamelab52.bsky.social @jentaub.bsky.social @princesskim.bsky.social @alexis4seattle.bsky.social
What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
Just watched AN AMERICAN PASTORAL, a documentary about a 2023 BOE race in PA, where mainstream candidates fought to prevent control by Christian nationalists. Craziest moment: extremist school board member anoints his truck, filled with guns, on his way to hear Glenn Beck & Michele Bachmann speak.
An American Pastoral (2024)
In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a storm is brewing over the soul of its public schools. What begins as a debate over library books quickly reveals a deeper battle — one over religion, democracy, and the...
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Who gets invited to reading and who gets boxed out? Help Storybook Maze increase book access in Baltimore’s book deserts gofund.me/cf9706ca1
Dashingclaire@dashingclaire.bsky.social · 4d agoThe magical #book trolley #Baltimore 📚💙 ✏️🖤
“Great documentary films can teach people about the world. But the strength of the medium is that it doesn’t just explain facts, it can also reveal emotional truths.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social www.ctpublic.org/show/disrupt...
From book bans to immigration, documentary filmmakers reveal the humanity behind complex issues
The teams behind 'The Librarians' and 'Missing in Brooks County' talk about the power of documentary film to create change.
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"Hoskins and Brattin told reporters the books were inappropriate for young children and alleged that LGBTQ+ book readings are part of a larger effort to groom children. "'If this is not illegal, we want to file bills to ensure this is illegal in the future.’”
Missouri Republicans threaten to cut library funding over ‘rainbow story time’ event
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins says he intends to block state and federal funds from reaching Daniel Boone Regional Library after its Columbia branch read LGBTQ+ picture books aloud. One st...
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I had a joke about censorship, but somebody banned it.
Dr ShinyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4d agoI had a joke about plagiarists but somebody copied it.
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Today in retirement: Coffee painting at the Lacey Library. Dilute instant coffee crystals in different concentrations and use like watercolors. Fun and aromatic!
Update: Dress selected. Even better: On sale!
Martha Hickson@sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat does a gal with no $$ wear to the Emmy Awards?
Free screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social , Sept. 14, Morris County Library, Whippany, NJ. luma.com/vxcwdnyz
Viewing of the Documentary, "The Librarians" with Q&A and special guests. · Luma
Special Screening of The Librarians The New Jersey Public Education Coalition and the Hanover Township Democratic Club invite you to a special screening of The…
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Those who don’t remember the past are indeed doomed to repeat it. The fascists are counting on it. But can we actually learn from our hardest histories instead? What do y’all think? 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · last wk.I know it was 4000 news cycles ago, but earlier this month the administration released a 162-page attack on the Smithsonian, featuring an argument that the Chinese Exclusion Act wasn’t based on racism. That pissed me off. My new column on the white supremacist hate & violence that built to the Act.🗃️
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
“Instead of threatening schools with book banning laws, public education would be much better served if we made sure that every school has a certified media specialist. These are the teachers whose literal job it is to decide what books are in school libraries.”
The Slippery Slope of Letting the Government Decide What We Read: Call Congress to Vote NO on H.R. 7661 & S. 4925
Currently, four different book banning bills are under consideration in Congress: H.R. 7661, S. 4925, H.R. 2616, and H.R. 8705. I’m encouraging everyone who supports the right to read to cont…
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Today in retirement: Went to a board painting workshop at the Barnegat Library. It’s 83 degrees out today, but I’m thinking ahead. This will look great with my snowman collection ☃️
