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FTRW 2013 – Day 2 – #ftrweek – Freedom of Expression, Censorship & #skndpldr

Given the hash tags I’m using for this post, I suspect there are going to be a couple different audiences for this post – those who are interested

FTRW 2013 – Day 1 – #ftrweek – A Word (or Seven) From the Master

As I have on this blog every year since 2007, I’m planning a week-long series of posts relating to the unofficial Haunakah (er, or week-long holiday of your

A Censored Girl’s Name? How Timely!

Seeing that Iceland has a list of approved names for boys and girls and that they’ve taken away the name of a 15-year old girl that somehow slipped

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Rape? Rape Who? Rape Jokes – Are They Funny?

About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend

FTRW 2011 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Pace writes his name for the first time!

Pace writes his name for the first time, originally uploaded by headtale. This post has nothing to do with censorship but everything with the power of the written

FTRW 2011 – Day Four – Political Censorship

There are numerous ongoing examples of governments and political institutions preventing the sharing of information – often in the name of “security” but often, more accurately, in the

FTRW 2011 – Day Three – Banning Books For Fun & Profit

A few links about where the place where writing, publishing and selling controversial books intersects… In a post about Chapters deciding to not stock Mein Kampf during FTRW

FTRW 2011 – Day Two – Music Monday – “Like sex on the beaches/What else is in the teaches of peaches? Huh? What?”

We screened a few films during library school that either had a library theme (Party Girl) or that somehow related to library issues. One that we showed which

FTRW 2011 – Day One – Fat Vampire Banned, Somewhere

Time for my annual weekly series of posts for Freedom to Read Week. (Yay!) I’ll start with a great response from a YA novelist to a parent who

Why Ann Coulter is the Iron Sheik of Politics

One of the big hub-bubs of the last week or so was around the fact that American right-wing commentator, Ann Coulter, had one of her speeches in Canada

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