{"id":8455,"date":"2022-09-23T02:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2022-09-23T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:35:13","slug":"booking-banning-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2022\/09\/23\/booking-banning-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Book banning event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Alexis McCarney \u201925, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A librarian and electives supervisor of the Ephrata School District visited LVC to discuss the importance of book banning in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Samantha Hull has become an impassioned activist in the past year as her libraries have become victims of silent book removal. &nbsp;When she realized that books containing information or stories about marginalized groups had disappeared, she knew something had to be done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCensorship has changed because now it is coming from parents and communities,\u201d Hull said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experiences and biases of the communities and parents cloud their judgment on what is truly right or wrong. Shielding children today from the realities of the world will not help them. This lack of knowledge carries over to the list of books they are demanding to be removed; the books they want gone are not even on the shelves of these libraries.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hull was invited to a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on politically motivated book banning by Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin this past spring. Hull shared briefly about her experience testifying at this hearing and how it felt like both sides were using the same words and mentioning the same things but having totally different conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to break through the political barriers and hardwired narrow mindsets that have been sparking some of the book banning has been a challenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know better now,\u201d Hull said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the books that people want to be banned are based on books containing LGBTQIA+ characters. This pattern has been consistent for almost 20 years but is becoming more apparent in this year\u2019s top 10 banned books that Hull shared.\u00a0 The banning is targeting this group the most.\u00a0 Some other types of books targeted in this series of banning are about racism, Holocaust, among many others.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hull shared the importance of being aware of what is happening in one\u2019s community. Her devotion to libraries and advocacy was abundantly clear in her presentation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Alexis McCarney \u201925, staff writer A librarian and electives supervisor of the Ephrata School District visited LVC to discuss the importance of book banning in America.&nbsp; Dr. Samantha Hull has become an impassioned activist <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2022\/09\/23\/booking-banning-event\/\" title=\"Book banning event\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}