{"id":8863,"date":"2021-09-14T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T14:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=8863"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:32:42","slug":"mommy-mama-and-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/mommy-mama-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Mommy, Mama, and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<div>\n                                            \n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/09\/momy-mama-and-me.jpg\" alt=\"mommy, mama, and me book cover\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2351\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>The Lincoln Parish Library in Ruston (LA) had a very contentious board meeting that led to an agreement that the library would &#8220;adhere to its policy and refrain from censoring any book due to race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, or political views.&#8221;  All titles previously removed (<strong>Wings of Fire<\/strong> (series); <strong>Mommy, Mama, and Me<\/strong>; <strong>My Two Dads<\/strong>; <strong>My Two Moms<\/strong>; <strong>Real Sisters Pretend<\/strong>; <strong>The Great Big Book of Families<\/strong>; <strong>A Tale of Two Daddies<\/strong>;<strong> Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth<\/strong>; <strong>Snapdragon<\/strong>; <strong>Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy<\/strong>; <strong>George<\/strong>; and <strong>Rick<\/strong>) would be returned to their regular shelves. The board also affirmed that &#8220;every book inside the library was selected to be inclusive of all members of the diverse Lincoln Parish community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<p>Several patrons of the Lincoln Parish Library in Ruston (LA) complained about <strong>George<\/strong> and <strong>Rick<\/strong>, two books in the children\u2019s room collection featuring LGBTQIA+ characters. The identical complaints referenced an upcoming mill levy election for the library. While the patrons agreed that neither book was sexually graphic, they expressed concern that children could encounter a topic the parents didn\u2019t want them to. At a meeting of board members at which a quorum was not present, some board members asked the director to remove the books from open shelves, making them available only to parents who request them, to appease the complaining patrons. The director complied, but protested that the restrictions the challengers did not reflect library policy. After this board meeting. a minority of members added an additional 13 titles to the complaint: <strong>Wings of Fire<\/strong> (series); <strong>Mommy, Mama, and Me<\/strong>; <strong>My Two Dads<\/strong>; <strong>My Two Moms<\/strong>; <strong>Real Sisters Pretend<\/strong>; <strong>The Great Big Book of Families<\/strong>; <strong>A Tale of Two Daddies<\/strong>;<strong> Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth<\/strong>; <strong>Snapdragon<\/strong>; and <strong>Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy<\/strong>. News reporters covering the challenge noted that the director was under no legal obligation to follow a non-quorum board decision. Since then, the library\u2019s levy was defeated; many local citizens apparently used the election to protest what they saw as library censorship. The board subsequently voted to abide by library policy and reinstate the books to the children\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 16, 2022<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11513,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8863\/revisions\/11513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}