The Right’s War on Libraries

Rite Gud

As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking controversial, attention-getting discourse, we have a new piping hot take for you here today: libraries are good. But in this country, libraries are under attack by a small but zealous movement among the far-right.

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Links:

• America’s Culture Warriors Are Going After Librarians
• USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes
• The Strain of Censorship on Public Libraries
• State of America’s Libraries Report 2022
• Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books
• Banned in the USA: the Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools
• The artificial growth of hate speech
• What does ‘woke’ mean? Whatever Ron DeSantis wants.
• Books Unbanned
• The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (the Third Place)
• A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
• Eric Adams cuts library budget
• ALA office for intellectual freedom
• ALA get involved Unite Against Book Bans
• #FReadom
• Customers get mad when you hand them flowers
• Eric’s website
• Eric’s Substack
• The Killing of Hypatia

About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.

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