{"id":205,"date":"2011-01-26T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-03-09T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:39:31","slug":"a-beautiful-response-to-a-book-ban-revolutionary-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/205","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Response to Book Banning: Revolutionary Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">American Libraries &#8220;<a title=\"American Libraries: The Year in Review 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/10inreview\">Year in Review 2010<\/a>,&#8221; which noted  GLBTRT&#8217;s <\/span><a title=\"Speaking OUT Against Bullying from the GLBT Round Table of the  American Library Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/rts\/glbtrt\/popularresources\/bullying.cfm\">Speaking  OUT Against Bullying List<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">, also described a successful  book  ban in Burlington County (NJ). One resident succeeded in getting <\/span><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/44933914\">Revolutionary Voices: A  Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"> pulled from both the  Rancocas  Valley Regional High School library and the Burlington County Library  System.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Awesome Montclair State University students and  alumni\u00a0protested this ban by using pieces from the book to perform  theatrical readings, called <em>Revolutionary Readings<\/em>,\u00a0around New  Jersey and New York City during the fall of 2010.\u00a0 They have promised  more  performances in May 2011. Follow the group on their <\/span><a title=\"Revolutionary Readings home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionaryreadings.com\/\">website<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">, <\/span><a title=\"Revolutionary Readings on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Revolutionary-Readings\/101487273239450\">Facebook  page<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Revolutionary Readings on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/revreadings\">Twitter feed<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0videos\u00a0of some performances on YouTube. \u00a0More are noted in their Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Revolutionary Readings on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/revreadings2010\">Video of Burlington County Footlighters performance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Revolutionary Voices on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87gzBSrNlSA\">Bluestockings Books show featuring Victoria Fear<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our hats are off to Revolutionary Voices. \u00a0Keep up the good work and we&#8217;ll do our best to spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy\u00a0around\u00a0<a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/44933914\">Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology<\/a> is noted on its\u00a0<a title=\" Revolutionary Voices article on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revolutionary_Voices\">Wikipedia page<\/a>. \u00a0If you hear of more controversoy about the book, add to the Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of resources about banned books on the Net but here&#8217;s a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Wikipedia list of books banned by governments.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_books_banned_by_governments\">Wikipedia List of books banned by governments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"American Library Association's Banned Books Week website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\/index.cfm\">American Library Association&#8217;s Banned Books Week<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Frequently banned book lists maintained by the American Library Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/frequentlychallenged\/index.cfm\">American Library Association&#8217;s Frequently Banned Books list<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Resources on how to deal with book challenges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/challengeslibrarymaterials\/index.cfm\">American Library Association&#8217;s\u00a0Resources\u00a0on Book Bans\u00a0(note the sub-menu items: Essential\u00a0Preparation;\u00a0Challenge\u00a0Support; Reporting a\u00a0Challenge;)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GLBTRT Members &#8212; Want to dream up a project the round table can do for Banned Books Week in the Fall of 2011? \u00a0Put your thinking caps on. \u00a0Maybe we can do a bibliography of books that have been banned because of LGBTQ content? \u00a0Focus on U.S. bans or make it a\u00a0global\u00a0list? \u00a0Any ideas are welcome. \u00a0Chat with us on our\u00a0<a title=\"GLBTRT Member Email List\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/rts\/glbtrt\/socialnetworking\/index.cfm\">membership&#8217;s\u00a0email list<\/a> or post comments here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Libraries &#8220;Year in Review 2010,&#8221; which noted GLBTRT&#8217;s Speaking OUT Against Bullying List, also described a successful book ban in Burlington County (NJ). One resident succeeded in getting Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology pulled from both the Rancocas Valley Regional High School library and the Burlington County Library System. Awesome Montclair State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books-week","category-book-banning","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}