Anschel

queer quaker commie cat

In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate

Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish

I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried

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alyaza
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shel
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The way libraries would have to change to actually be in compliance with a law like this is severe. Preventing minors from having access to whatever might be considered obscene materials basically means barring them from the entire adult stacks. Most small libraries like branches or rural libraries are just one big room without significant distinction between adult and children besides the height of the shelving and how it’s decorated. Preventing children from being able to freely access the adult books would also create a lot of barriers to adults accessing fucking any books at all especially since teenagers are minors too and they can look quite adult. So that creates a need to ID check people before they can use the library. Which removes the privacy and lack of surveillance that we pride ourselves on. It’s incredibly impractical. Expensive building remodeling and moving of the books racks into new arrangements will be necessary and I doubt most libraries have the budget for that.

So of course the alternative is to censor the entire library collection so that every single book across all age grades could be considered appropriate for children of any age. Removing absolutely all serious material from the library entirely.

This is a very very bad law


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in reply to @shel's post:

So, like... am I off-base that the intended purpose of this law is to prevent access to queer-friendly books and resources? Because when I see "consider obscene" in a law my first thought is that's a dogwhistle.

It is transparently targeting LGBT materials as well as materials concerning racism, sexual assault, and abortion; based on what typically is the top ten most challenged books every year

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