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Ants! said:
That's definitely an idea! I'd have to check with my branch manager. We have lots of LGBTQ-friendly books even in our Teens section, with relationships depicted on the covers which I often put on display. In fact, Kacen Callender on the one I just did is a trans author. There was a trans author on my Hispanic Month board too (Aiden Thomas). And I've been pleasantly surprised at the openness and acceptance of the trans community since I started working here. Several patrons and staff when I did my training at Main branch were openly trans and nobody blinked an eye. One teen patron introduced themselves to me and told me their pronouns and asked for mine.

Reason why I say I have to ask first though is because this state is also hella Trump territory. Just the other day we had a patron come in asking strange questions, and it turned out he was trying to find out if we were "pushing" LBGTQ stuff on young people. The person they talked to told them calmly that we don't dictate what patrons can check out, that Teens and Children can't check out R-rated movies but other than that we leave the discretion up to the parents. They seemed satisfied with that answer and left, but still feels a bit chilling.
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Yeah, fair, I wouldn't want you to do something that would get you in trouble, but given that it is trans day of visibility it would be cool to show a little support for trans works. I love that you already do, that's amazing! :)
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I thought March 31st didn't exist?

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That was one of my favorite bits lol. Too bad Chapelle has become so loudly and militantly anti-trans :(
 
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Crystal said:
Yeah, fair, I wouldn't want you to do something that would get you in trouble, but given that it is trans day of visibility it would be cool to show a little support for trans works. I love that you already do, that's amazing! :)

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I would need to get clarification on anything big that might anger the "pushing an agenda" morons that vote (the parish next door to us had its funding slashed horribly and they're having to shut down a ton of services they once had), but I do try to subtly sneak it in so as to be inclusive and supportive of any trans youth that come in such as choosing those titles over others for my book displays whenever possible. I figure if I'm just displaying books that are already in our collection then there's nothing anybody can really say about it.
 
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So we got an email today, announcing plans the mayor has to move some of the funds from the library to the police force instead. Hoping it doesn't happen.
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Gross. I believe orange Tramp cut federal funding to police. Very dumb that cities have to redistribute from other places to cover.

Because the police sure AF won't sell their APCs or tanks.
 
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Gross. I believe orange Tramp cut federal funding to police. Very dumb that cities have to redistribute from other places to cover.

Because the police sure AF won't sell their APCs or tanks.
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From what it said in the mayor's letter, it's mostly going towards giving police a significant salary increase. He was bragging about it.
 
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From what it said in the mayor's letter, it's mostly going towards giving police a significant salary increase. He was bragging about it.
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Oh, well fuck Mayor McCheese, then.

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And then the assistant library director sent out another email in which she was fact-checking all of the blatant lies in the mayor's letter, about how we are overfunded and shit like that. It was beautiful. I would copy and paste both emails here, but I'm not sure if it will get me in trouble or not.
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Don't risk it, but it's nice to know.
 
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