I get the double whammy of being a creator of queer media and a library worker who provides access to "pornography" like a picture book of two men holding hands.
For the record, I'm not queer. So if you think "I'm not queer so this won't affect me," you're a fucking walnut
also and I feel like I buried the lede here:
it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.
Imprisoned.
If you’ve written a TV show or movie that includes trans or other LGBTQ+ characters, Project 2025 wants to send you to prison for being a “purveyor of pornography.”
also and I feel like I buried the lede here:
it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.
Imprisoned.
also and I feel like I buried the lede here:
it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.
Imprisoned.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
People are sleeping on the last sentence. With "pornography" being defined this broadly that's like, the entire fucking internet and entertainment and (by extension) publishing industries.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
Also, not for nothing, but the way this is worded they definitely think I should be put in jail for working for a publisher that has put out novels with trans characters and picture books for kids celebrating queer history
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
#MAGA America has already made being a #teacher or a #librarian in many 🔴💀🔴 states virtually untenable and sometimes very scary as it is. 😳 If #Project2025 comes to pass, these professions will be PTSD-producing just from working the job from day-to-day. 30+ year retired teacher's (my) perspective.
anyway, register to fucking vote
it's not enough, it won't make the changes we want, but we buy 4 more years before this shit hits the fan and maybe in that time we can beat it back to the margins where it belongs
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
some of the most banned books are just matter-of-fact books about sex ed, like:
Let's Talk About It by Erica Moen and Matthew Nolan
It's Perfectly Normal by the late Robie Harris
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Note for folks: Materials providing sex education, including materials educating people about their own bodies, and even literary texts with explicit sexual references were previously considered obscene, pornographic, and illegal. They will target sex ed and English/Language Arts classes, too.
As a library worker and part-time educator, I find this passage of Project 2025 to be ignorant, malicious word salad, but also something to be very concerned about. Let's make sure this doesn't become our reality.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
It also outlines the need to cut off federal funding for any school that teaches "critical race theory," in the same breath.
So, teach history the jingoistic way we demand or don't get funding. And erase queer people or we will pursue legal action.
