Showing posts with label Drag Queen story hour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drag Queen story hour. Show all posts
Monday, May 20, 2024
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Opinion | The Republican Party Says It Wants to Protect Children, but Not All Children - The New York Times
When you put all of this together, the picture is clear. The Republican Party will use the law and the state to shield as many children as possible from the knowledge, cultural influences and technologies deemed divisive or controversial or subversive by the voters, activists and apparatchiks that shape and guide its priorities. When Tucker Carlson, Christopher Rufo and Moms for Liberty say jump, their only question is: How high?
But when it comes to actual threats to the lives of American children — from poverty, from hunger, from sickness and from guns — then, well, the Republican Party wants us to slow down and consider the costs and consequences and even possible futility of taking any action to help...
Friday, March 24, 2023
Drag storytellers grapple with growing threats by Republicans and far right
"I want to teach her that she can wear whatever, love whoever, be whoever," Towle said, patting the flower garland on top of her daughter's blonde hair.
But drag story hours are no longer simple in the US. They have been targeted by Republicans and the far-right with protests and threats of violence and wild conspiracy theories around grooming and abuse. At the same, there has been a concerted legislative push to erode LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the US, an effort to remove LGBTQ literature from public libraries and rising acts of violence against the community…
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Why DeSantis targeted the Orlando Philharmonic’s liquor license
In fact, even after the undercover agents specifically concluded, in writing, that they "did not witness any lewd acts," the DeSantis administration's complaint said the venue had allowed children to see "acts of sexual conduct, simulated sexual activity, and lewd, vulgar and indecent displays" in violation of state decency laws.
It's almost as if the GOP administration had a predetermined political agenda, and when the evidence didn't support the plan, the evidence was simply overlooked...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Monday, December 5, 2022
'Holi-Drag Storytime' for children canceled because of right-wing protesters
Members of Ohio's Proud Boys organization and other right-wing groups made good on promises to make waves outside the venue Saturday. More than 50 demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, gathered near the church Saturday morning and shouted, chanted and held up signs. Some were armed with long guns...
Friday, September 30, 2022
They tried to shut down Drag Story Hour. A Montana bookstore fought back
Even if the protests and outright attacks continue, Hamilt said interest in drag story hours is unlikely to be deterred. If anything, Hamilt said, the positive reception of the reading events is growing.
"There's lots of queer people and a lot of queer families," they said. "And that's the reality of the world."…
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/28/drag-queen-story-hour-book-store-montana
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Right Wing Influencers Are Stoking a Moral Panic About Drag Performers
…Purnsley believes that if critics truly cared about kids, they would focus on issues legislating against gun violence and mental health rather than on drag performances and children's story hours.
"Children are growing up hurting. They are killing themselves. They are being murdered," Purnsley said. "We could do so much more than protest my padded Black ass."
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Drag Queen Story Hour offers a different kind of page-turner
Children’s story hours are intended to instill a love of reading in young kids. But one reading program also seeks to spread messages about self-love, acceptance of others and appreciation of diversity: Drag Queen Story Hour, a national organization that runs programs in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan and cities across the country...
https://youtu.be/3YWNMunlx6w
https://youtu.be/3YWNMunlx6w
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