The right's actions -- censoring LGBTQ depictions, stomping out discussions of race & gender -- are right out of the Nazi playbook. Call it what it is.
I’m horrified and scared as to what this all means but sadly not surprised one bit. People who embrace different intersectionalities based on race, class, sexual orientation or gender , outside of what white patriarchy calls the norm , are always at risk. Can you imagine being a young LGBTQ person who can’t access books? Can’t go to the library and find out more about their community , the activists or their history ? Please continue to keep us informed and actions we can take as this is intolerable!
I'm about to turn 60 years old. It's very hard to believe for me personally that I've lived through six decades. For more than one of those decades I lived in Germany I saw the wall come down I saw more emotional walls built but change came no matter what. Since returning to the United States in 1995, after having traveled to so many places and worked and taught and performed and created in so many cities across Europe Asia and Oceania, it boggles my mind and how privileged and how much abundance America always has had but it's so diminished emotionally spiritually and cognitively. I am a professor at a large California-based university I'm teaching my students about Reconstruction in America after the Civil War I'm teaching them about the massacre in Wilmington North Carolina in 1898 I'm teaching them about the Birth of American music I'm teaching them about the history of scientific racism and I'm teaching them that people seek destruction of the things that they know are true. That is the legacy of the United States of America. Our foundational documents were written by rich white man with a quail in one hand and a leash around the neck of an enslaved Africans in the other. I'm an HIV positive black gay man and I've always looked at America through the lens of my experiences living in Germany where I felt more at home there than I've ever felt here. America will never be accountable and thereby will in perpetuity despise and destroy everything including their own lives. The majority of Americans will never know their history and don't care to which is unfair because I am a descendent of a slave and I'm three generations from slavery I have to reconcile that if it wasn't for slavery I wouldn't be here. Most of these crazy people burning books destroying art don't have to reconcile anything in their minds. I am an artist but I'm also an educator and it burns into my soul that our nation has become everything that it said it is not. The great menace of our times it's our own delusions of exceptionalism disguised as aberrant moral collapse.
We're going back to 1950 (maybe 1850?) thanks to tRump dividing the country and making racism and hatred A-OK. I am afraid of the future of our country and I fear the orange despot is coming back -- whether he wins in 2024 or not. I wish the Democratic leaders were screaming louder. Biden should tell people EXACTLY what his Infrastructure bill means for the states. Here in Florida, DeSatan, the governor, tells Floridians it's a pork barrel project and Mayor Pete is accused of diverting transportation funds to pet projects. The lying and propaganda make me very concerned that I will soon be living in an authoritarian state.
Chilling events in the works that show just how fragile our Democracy is. Books are sacrosanct, and the idea of burning them means Fascism NEVER disappeared. Please read Adam Schiff’s superb new Book, ‘Midnight in Washington’ to add to your knowledge of the past 5 years, and, how we can lose it all.
I hope that woman in Iowa sues. This is ridiculous. I would send $$ to GoFundMe for that. Fortunately we won’t ever have that in Palm Springs where until Covid we had a very successful library program where the drag queens read to children in the library. The drag queens here are such a giving group and do massive numbers of charitable events. This just fries my reared.
Sad, pathetic stupid people. No one is twisting their arms to READ any of the books they think that they can erase! Yet the porn industry in this country will never go away as long as it continues to bring in billions of dollars. The US is SUPPOSED to be a FREE country, no?!? Attacking libraries and books is about as anti-freedom as you can get. I had a bumper sticker several years ago which needs to come back, it said: " The moral majority is neither"
I’m horrified and scared as to what this all means but sadly not surprised one bit. People who embrace different intersectionalities based on race, class, sexual orientation or gender , outside of what white patriarchy calls the norm , are always at risk. Can you imagine being a young LGBTQ person who can’t access books? Can’t go to the library and find out more about their community , the activists or their history ? Please continue to keep us informed and actions we can take as this is intolerable!
I'm about to turn 60 years old. It's very hard to believe for me personally that I've lived through six decades. For more than one of those decades I lived in Germany I saw the wall come down I saw more emotional walls built but change came no matter what. Since returning to the United States in 1995, after having traveled to so many places and worked and taught and performed and created in so many cities across Europe Asia and Oceania, it boggles my mind and how privileged and how much abundance America always has had but it's so diminished emotionally spiritually and cognitively. I am a professor at a large California-based university I'm teaching my students about Reconstruction in America after the Civil War I'm teaching them about the massacre in Wilmington North Carolina in 1898 I'm teaching them about the Birth of American music I'm teaching them about the history of scientific racism and I'm teaching them that people seek destruction of the things that they know are true. That is the legacy of the United States of America. Our foundational documents were written by rich white man with a quail in one hand and a leash around the neck of an enslaved Africans in the other. I'm an HIV positive black gay man and I've always looked at America through the lens of my experiences living in Germany where I felt more at home there than I've ever felt here. America will never be accountable and thereby will in perpetuity despise and destroy everything including their own lives. The majority of Americans will never know their history and don't care to which is unfair because I am a descendent of a slave and I'm three generations from slavery I have to reconcile that if it wasn't for slavery I wouldn't be here. Most of these crazy people burning books destroying art don't have to reconcile anything in their minds. I am an artist but I'm also an educator and it burns into my soul that our nation has become everything that it said it is not. The great menace of our times it's our own delusions of exceptionalism disguised as aberrant moral collapse.
We're going back to 1950 (maybe 1850?) thanks to tRump dividing the country and making racism and hatred A-OK. I am afraid of the future of our country and I fear the orange despot is coming back -- whether he wins in 2024 or not. I wish the Democratic leaders were screaming louder. Biden should tell people EXACTLY what his Infrastructure bill means for the states. Here in Florida, DeSatan, the governor, tells Floridians it's a pork barrel project and Mayor Pete is accused of diverting transportation funds to pet projects. The lying and propaganda make me very concerned that I will soon be living in an authoritarian state.
Chilling events in the works that show just how fragile our Democracy is. Books are sacrosanct, and the idea of burning them means Fascism NEVER disappeared. Please read Adam Schiff’s superb new Book, ‘Midnight in Washington’ to add to your knowledge of the past 5 years, and, how we can lose it all.
I hope that woman in Iowa sues. This is ridiculous. I would send $$ to GoFundMe for that. Fortunately we won’t ever have that in Palm Springs where until Covid we had a very successful library program where the drag queens read to children in the library. The drag queens here are such a giving group and do massive numbers of charitable events. This just fries my reared.
Sad, pathetic stupid people. No one is twisting their arms to READ any of the books they think that they can erase! Yet the porn industry in this country will never go away as long as it continues to bring in billions of dollars. The US is SUPPOSED to be a FREE country, no?!? Attacking libraries and books is about as anti-freedom as you can get. I had a bumper sticker several years ago which needs to come back, it said: " The moral majority is neither"