Hey all – This is from spring 2022 but this Twitter thread is absolutely compelling to me. Please take a look if you can. I think you all may encounter waves of book banning in your careers and it’s good to understand where this comes from.The Hyperlinked Library is all about participation and connections around ideas, knowledge and people. This example (and other recent book bans, etc) goes against everything this class is about.
@CoreyRobin I teach a class at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Banned Books. I’ve been teaching it every few years for 25 years. Here is what I have learned.
— Kathy M. Newman (@_kathymnewman) January 28, 2022
@Michael I wasn’t able to see the rest of this X post because I’m not a member (wants me to create an account to see more), but I saw Art Spiegelman speak when I was at UC Santa Barbara in 2004, wrote a paper on, read both “Mauses” and “In the Shadow of No Towers” in my Atrocity in Lit. class. He was really fabulous. In fact, “Maus” was the cover I chose to wear on my Banned Books Week button in our library.
@lauraw I’ve been using the nifty “google login” through my SJSU email to access things that I don’t have accounts for (this can be used for X), so if you don’t want to open or use a personal email account but want to see the replies, this option may work for you 🙂
@donna128 Ooh, I love this! Thanks for the hot tip! I would normally go this route, but it said “Sign Up with” instead of “Login with,” which threw me off the trail : /.
Sidebar: another plug for the seminar in Intellectual Freedom (INFO 234). It highlights book/information banning around the country and the world (did you know the Barbie movie was banned in several Asian countries?), and educates about laws concerning privacy, etc. Poor Spiegelman was brought up as an example as well.