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And women are too emotional to lead.

SDPL Clara Breed Civil Liberties Lecture Maggie Tokuda-Hall in conversation with Mike Sakasegawa of the Keep the Channel Open Podcast. Tuesday March 10th, central library 6-8pm Also a pic of my face from 10 years ago, I look great.

Who do I know in San Diego? I will be there next week at the SDPL and I am afraid that I do not have enough people there.

I will be talking about the Japanese American Incarceration, book bans, and what our current climate of censorship yields for us while simultaneous state sanctioned raids occur.

Rise of the Pink Ladies is on Kanopy. Watch it while you can. It’s so so so good. www.kanopy.com/en/product/1...

David Zaslav Cashing In Over $100 Million Of Warner Bros Discovery Stock; Other Top Execs Also Sell Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive David Zaslav is selling stock in the company worth north of $114 million.

The most disgusting combination of self-enrichment and failed management in the history of the entertainment business. deadline.com/2026/03/davi...

Tote bag with Library Kids Club (Split Lip Magazine) printed on it in pink. Socks with rainbow text reading Keep Writing. Assortment of Split Lip Magazine stickers and pins.

We're pretty excited about our AWP merch, fam. Come find us at Table T960 for a Library Kids Club tote! buff.ly/zARNntb

While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...

McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Anyway, I do need to put this into a blog post because there’s so much to consider. But I’m really concerned that the weird way the publishers decided to market this book and categorize it as YA is going to do a lot of harm.

And I understand the convenience of dividing publishing up by ages, but that is not really how human beings work. I wish we could find a way to include developmental appropriateness into the conversation because development is not linear the way age is.

With readers advisory, you are speaking with an individual to determine their individual tastes, needs, wants, desires, preferences, and comfort with certain subjects or styles. No matter what their age every person is different and wants different things.

And this is where readers advisory is so so important. By necessity libraries have to organize books in very broad categories because otherwise what do you do? Have just one big pile of books? so we have these imperfect distinctions of juvenile and teen an adult and there will be a crossover.

I’ll have to put a blog post together because there’s also an essay by Andrew Karre that talks about sex in books for teens and this is really a big topic that needs to be unpacked with more nuance. Teens are interested in sex. Their hormones are causing these thoughts and these feelings.

And I would have to agree with them. I am very open to what any person wants to read, no matter what their age, but I guess my unspoken line has always been once the sex becomes explicit and graphically described that puts it into adult territory.

This is what comes from publishing boundaries not being very well defined. I usually look at Kirkus when I’m making fine-tuned decisions about where Book should be in a collection. For example, for this book the suggested age range is 17 to adult.

SIBYLLINE | Kirkus Reviews Three friends are devastated when they receive letters of rejection from Sibylline College of Magical Arts, the Ivy League equivalent “for the magically inclined”; little do they know that danger lurk...

Ugh the discourse around Sibylline is getting fraught. I’m still processing but this part of the Kirkus review feels important: “An unexpectedly explicit sex scene toward the end feels jarringly out of place relative to the rest of the book, making the intended audience unclear.”

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

Solidarity with American Library Association staff!

Without these folks hard work, nothing at ALA gets done.

✊️

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Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship

The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

Can't emphasize enough if The Librarians resonated, see the other.

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Stop calling everything a distraction.

It's not funny or clever.
It's insulting to people's intelligence.
It minimizes what is actually going on.
It also discounts that some politicians are just evil and stupid.

Sometimes I wish I could slap people through the internet.

No library administrators need to make that much. Especially when so many of them are so terrible.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Following the lies and hatred targeting trans folks during the State of the Union Address, numerous republican House representatives introduced a bill that would create A NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN.

Here's what it is and what to do: bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust.

White woman with a derpy grin and orange and teal hair cut into an amazing shag bob

Got my hair did

Additionally, even though women outnumber men by 4:1 in public and academic libraries in the US, men still hold ~40% of leadership positions

People don't want data centers polluting their cities.

They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home.

They want their basic needs met.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Mark Zuckerberg looks like a sentient boiled egg in a bad wig.

I feel like if you own houses more than the one you personally occupy for your own home your taxes should go up by a lot

I feel like a real tinfoil hat guy when I say this, but I don’t believe he won and I’m pissed that there were no investigations into the election results.

The Disappearance of Young Adult Books and Services in Public Libraries: Book Censorship News, February 20, 2026 Teen collections in public libraries are disappearing. So, too, are professionals dedicated to serving this demographic.

The disappearance of YA book collections in public libraries–and the parallel winnowing of YA librarianship. Where are young people supposed to BE young people?

That, plus an extremely long roundup of censorship news: bookriot.com/the-disappea...

No one else but me was advocating for teens in that meeting, and no one else ever would because that manager was a dick and difficult to work with. But I was the problem employee for saying teens deserved better.