#queer librarians

[showmethecrowfacts]

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

#showmethecrowfacts #queer librarians #flag code #hyperspecific poll #tumblr polls #patriotism

[countv0ncunt]

MY DAUGHTER Ayda Aguefort.

Move along Arthur 😠

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #d20 fhjy #ayda aguefort #my art #digital painting #queer autistic wizard librarian MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!! #queer artist #latin artist #portrait #this isnt done but i gave up lmao #garthy and adaine the fish looking plump #fig x ayda #this IS figayda because i gave her a tattoo of figs dont be mad at me #fantasy high sophomore year #oop forgot to add my signature #fixing that rn

[commiepinkofag]

Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide

Gay schoolteachers wearing masks at parade, June 28, 1986

In this image, Seattle schoolteachers participating in the Gay Freedom Day parade through the Capitol Hill neighborhood hold a banner reading "Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide," and wear masks to protest the discrimination they have felt. An estimated 10,000 people participated in the event, which is part of Seattle's annual Gay Pride Week.

[ 📷 Jennifer Werner-Jones / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]

oh, how times have changed!

#queer history #teachers #teacher #pride month #🌈 #🏳️‍🌈 #🦄 #🏳️‍⚧️ #1980s #80s #1986 #queer #school #florida #book ban #book bans #librarians #librarian #anti trans legislation #anti woke legislation #pride march #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbqti #discrimination #demonstration #protest #seattle #capitol hill #cap hill

[smolwannabear]

Just your local whorish librarian type here to make you waffles this morning

#smolwannabear #gay #queer #me #belly #tummy #also a wannabe librarian too i guess lmao

[hurymurry]

#wings of fire #wof #dragon enjoyers 👀👀👀 diagonsed with gay unfortunately #books #gay #queer books #creditionals: little kid with a library card and burgeoning gender identity crisis #legit was in there every day #the librarian had a lizard how could I not #I realize I misspelled two thing but that will not stop my truth (do not want to correct it)

[moosewings]

Imagine:

You’re me, a little trans guy in the library looking for a good book.

I walk up to the circulation desk, behind which are two librarians.

Me: Can I ask for a recommenation?

Librarian 1: Yea sure.

Me: I’m looking for queer fantasy with no sex.

WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN:

Librarian 1: Ew don’t say that word! Don’t you know the children’s section is RIGHT THERE

WHAT ALSO DIDN’T HAPPEN:

Librarian 1: You’re an adult and reading sex makes you uncomfortable? You’re so immature. Go look in the baby books, you weirdo.

WHAT DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN:

Librarian 1: Oh, one of my coworkers sent me a list of queer fantasy books that I used when I set up the Pride display last month! Let me see what I can find.

Librarian 2: *names two books off the top of her head that fit that description*

Librarian 1: *gives me her business card and the one for the other librarian with the list because she can’t find it at that exact moment*

Librarian 2: *helps me find one of her recommendations on the shelves and helps me put the other on hold*

Librarian 1: Here’s this other one I just started. I’ve had lots of good recommendations for it, though I don’t know if there’s any sex...

Me *leaves with a giant pile of queer fantasy that have all been SO GOOD thus far*

Anyway, support your local libraries and know that the librarians won’t judge you, no matter what you’re asking for :)

#public libraries #librarians #queer #queer fantasy

[pinatadulce]

Welcome Home OCs (References)

Been job hunting and had to go to the hospital for an infection so yea definitely not the best way to end or start a week.

Ive been working on all of these for almost 2 months now because I kept trying to make sure they looked "perfect" but in the end I just hope people will show some liking/appreciations towards it.

🗿...🏳️‍🌈

《(Luddy front body reference)》

《(Where their places would've been)》

《Lulu's hacienda and Luddy's Library》

《☆》

Check out my Instagram for extra info/lore about them

#welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #welcome home ocs #welcome home oc #welcome home original character #original characters #original character #oc artwork #oc art dump #oc art tag #oc art #oc artist #my oc art #oc drawing #inspiration #Welcome home #hacienda #library #books & libraries #the librarians #public libraries #wlw #bisexual #queer #gay #tagging #idk how to tag this #idk what else to tag #under the sea

[wearelibrarian]

Top "10" Most Challenged Books of 2022

This week (October 1-7, 2023) is Banned Books Week, at least in the United States. During this week, the American Library Association (ALA) shares statistics about books banned and challenged during the previous year, along with raising awareness about why those books were so objectionable. Libraries across the United States report book challenges to the ALA, and that data is compiled every year.

Last year's Top 10 (actually 13 due to some ties) most banned/challenged books are as follows:

1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. 151 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

2. All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. 86 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 73 challenges. Challenged for: depiction of sexual abuse, EDI content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

4. Flamer by Mike Curato. 62 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

5. (tie) Looking for Alaska by John Green. 55 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

5. (tie) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky. 55 challenges. Challenged for: depiction of sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ content, drug use, profanity, claimed to be sexually explicit.

7. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evinson. 54 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit.

8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. 52 challenges. Challenged for: profanity, claimed to be sexually explicit.

9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez. 50 challenges. Challenged for: depictions of abuse, claimed to be sexually explicit.

10. (tie) A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. 48 challenges. Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit.

10. (tie) Crank by Ellen Hopkins. 48 challenges. Challenged for: drug use, claimed to be sexually explicit.

10. (tie) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. 48 challenges. Challenged for: profanity, claimed to be sexually explicit.

10. (tie) This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson. 48 challenges. Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, providing sexual education, claimed to be sexually explicit.

Further information: https://bannedbooksweek.org/ and https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks

#it's banned books week y'all #The Hate U Give was in the top 10 for a few years but fell out of it this year #since most of this year's bans were focused on “sexually explicit” and queer literature #and The Hate U Give is challenged for other reasons #book #books #librarian

[queerliblib]

Xtra Xtra read all about it!!

We spoke to Xtra a few weeks ago about the work we’re doing at QLL. It means a lot to us to be doing this work, and to be in such wonderful company with others also out there doing the work.

#queer liberation library #qll #xtra #media #queer and trans librarians activists and everyday people #that’s what we’re about

[archivlibrarianist]

"'I grew up a queer teen on the fringes, and didn't feel like the world was made for me,' [New Jersey librarian Jenna] Ingham tells Yahoo Life. 'The goal is to be there for the teens, to make them feel seen, to make them feel valid.' Because, Ingham adds, "When you see yourself reflected back at you in the book, you feel like there is a place for you.'

"...'I had a teen tell me I was the only adult in their life that respects their pronouns,' Ingham shares. 'I recently had a trans teen come out to me. I had only just met them, but after 25 minutes of conversation they felt comfortable. I believe I was the first person they said it out loud to.'"

#libraries #librarians #library workers #tumblarians #teen services #YA services #banned books #censorship #school libraries #public libraries #LGBTQIA+ #protect queer kids #protect queer youth

[sarasade]

The local librarian when they see the same fujoshi mf (me) filling out acquisition proposals for BL non-fiction lit once again.

#I love you libraries and librarians<3 #they actually had Erica Friedman's yuri book but nothing on BL #They actually got Queer Transfigurations after this! yay 'cause academic books are expensive AF #they could have more lit on yuri too hmm (thinking thinking) #sarasade text #shitpost

[showmethecrowfacts]

Attention Librarians!

Can the Library Board Require Us to Make Patron Requests Public?

My local county library system is facing a huge problem with people on the county commission and in the library board demanding we remove queer books from the libraries.

We have fought under people yelling at us, threatening us with jail time, stalking staff members, and recordings PFLAG meetings.

Recently we have been working with policy that would require stricter written consent on our library card applications, so parents would know that their kids might check out “adult” materials. (Queer books and books on Sex Ed.)

What’s more, as of yesterday’s meeting, they want us to make the book requests public, so the board could see who exactly is requesting these “explicit” materials. Is this legal?

It goes against the Library Bill of Rights, and against part of my state’s codes. Have any of you dealt with this before? Advice would be appreciated.

#librarians #tumblarians #censorship #banned books #LGTBQIA+ #queer librarians #legal tumblr #science tumblr #libraries #public libraries #public librarian

[jstor]

Tumblr is cutting off the preview text just before it gets good: "Librarians gathered in 1970 to challenge Library of Congress classifications and catalog subject headings that aligned homosexuality with deviance."

#librarian #libraries #librarians #lgbtq #history #queer pride #research #jstor #jstor daily

[commiepinkofag]

In 1983, the 1981 book Jenny Lives With Eric & Martin, by Danish author Susanne Bösche, was published in England. The book was intended for primary school children and told the story of Jenny, a little girl who lived with her father and his male lover. It was quickly banned from schools after protests from parents and politicians who feared that it might encourage children to "experiment with homosexuality".

#section 28 #clause 28 #book ban #book bans #queer history #lgbqti #queer #gay #lgbtq #lgbt #librarians #public libraries #librarian #library #texas #literature #children's literature #kidlit #florida #uk #1980s #1981 #1983 #1988 #80s

[luane-horlis]

This is long and I apologize but I don’t have any other social media and sometimes you’ve just gotta scream into the void.

My first job in a library was a tiny rural community college with an even tinier library. The collection was mostly academic but we did have a couple shelves of kids books for early childhood education majors. No kids were really ever in there, except for one or two bored middle schoolers tagging along with a parent who needed to do homework.

This was around 2008 or so, when I was in undergrad at a Big College in the city and between that and seeing Callie and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy I was taking my first nervous step into “huh, maybe I am one of them queers…” I had no elder queer role models in my life and there were zero out gay kids in my tiny rural southern high school, so that was quite literally my first experience with sapphic love (and Sara Ramirez is still insanely hot, I’m very very gay for her to this day.) All of this is to set the stage of me as a painfully shy, extremely sheltered, very closeted 20-something with my first real job at a library, the thing I wanted to do When I Grew Up.

We had just gotten a copy of the book And Tango Makes Three, which if you don’t know, is about two male penguins who were pair bonded and raise a chick together. My boss, a middle aged white man, was debating on whether he should catalog it for the kids section or the adult section. I thought he was nuts.

“It’s a children’s story book, why would you want to put it in the adult section?”

“Well, it’s two male penguins…”

“So?”

“It’s inappropriate…”

“How? They’re not doing anything graphic in the book, they just raise a chick together.”

Having gone to grad school and completed my Masters I now know this guy was just a shit-ass librarian who needed to exit the profession, but at the time I was boggled he even had one second thought over cataloging a children’s book as a children’s book. I, again a painfully shy 5’3” 20 year old, almost got into a shouting match with my 6ft 50 something boss over a penguin book, but he ultimately put it in with the children’s books when the Dean of Libraries told him in no uncertain terms to fuck off with his bullshit.

When I got this job working with kids and teens I resolved to be the queer adult I really needed in my own teens so I didn’t have to endure such a horrible comphet upbringing. I have pride pins and pronoun buttons on my lanyard, I wear probably way too many rainbows, I make pride book displays, I’m in the library’s pride discord, and if the YA manager asks I’ll be at every teen pride cafe program to just stand there like “hey, I’m an Adult Queer and we’re here if you need us.”

All of the above is just to say that I’m tired. At my current library we now have an asshole county councilman demanding on behalf of “numerous complaints from concerned citizens” that we move all children’s materials about gender identity and sexuality from the children’s section to the adult section “to protect the kids” and I’m just so tired. It’s 2023.

Protect the kids from what, the same miserable anxiety-ridden tween and teen years I had thinking I was fucking wrong and abnormal for the way I felt? Of being so lonely with no one to talk to and nothing to turn to like, oh, an age appropriate book for information and comfort? I still deal with feeling absolutely worthless and like I’m unloveable now in my mid-fucking 30s from growing up like that so excuse me if I want kids to have access to things which help them grow up safe and knowing they have value without fear.

I’m not giving up, I’m still fighting every damn day to do what I can in my limited scope but fucking hell, I’m tired.

#most of my friends are queer or working in libraries too #and we’re all tired #so I didn’t want to dump more on their plate #we’re just tired together #libraries #librarian #queer #I need like a month off in the woods with no outside contact

[honeyedantique]

a little tired a little dreary in need of cups of tea and blankets and candlelight

#me #mine #journal #personal #dark academia #light academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #vintage #historian #librarian #vintage queer #vintage style #1920s #1920s aesthetic #decade: 1920s #decade: 1930s #1930s aesthetic #1930s #antiques #cottagecore #grandmacore #honeycore #academic #booksbooksbooks #books books books