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Sharyn Vane

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Please don’t take your eyes away from the damage book banning laws are doing in Texas. In Boerne ISD, a kindergarten class was forced to cancel its planned holiday party book exchange due to HB900 and SB13.
A post from Texas Freedom to Read Project featuring Grinch arms pointing to a class communication from a Boerne ISD kindergarten teacher that reads: 

“Dear Families,
We regret to let you know that we are going to have to cancel our classroom book exchange for the winter party. Due to the passage of HB 900 and SB 13, we have been informed that books would need to be vetted before being sent home with students. With the quick turnaround, this won't be possible. If your child has already sent in a book, it will be returned to you.
Our room parents have worked hard and we will still have plenty of fun and engaging activities at our winter party.
Thank you for your understanding”
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Time to tally those year-end lists! Here are my favorite TV scenes from 2025, in a mostly spoiler-free roundup. Up now at Book and Film Globe! bookandfilmglobe.com/television/b...
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10 of the Best TV Scenes of 2025 - Book and Film Globe
Sometimes, it’s not a whole show that sticks with you. It’s one scene, a snippet that haunts you or makes you laugh, even after repeated views. For this
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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
SB13 will pass mostly as is. Changes made in conference committee yesterday will significantly slow down the book purchasing process for our kids. One change is that if a book is challenged, no matter how spurious, it will have to be removed from the shelf. We see real problems ahead. #txlege
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Hopefully the fight moves to the next court level, because this is so damaging. Dissenting judges called the decision ‘disturbingly flippant.’ www.statesman.com/story/news/p...
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5th Circuit rules Texas library patrons have no First Amendment right to information
The 10-7 ruling overturns a decades-old precedent barring the removal of library books for political reasons.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Two major newspapers just published a summer reading guide comprised mostly of books that don’t exist. AI is the culprit — but this episode also spotlights some unfortunate current realities about newspapers. Learn more in my latest for Book and Film Globe. bookandfilmglobe.com/fiction/thes...
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These Aren’t the Books You’re Looking For - Book and Film Globe
The Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer just published a summer section complete with a reading list. You know the kind. A blurb-y roundup of
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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Freedom to Read Project and more than 40 organizations representing parents, grassroots organizers, authors, librarians, booksellers, and publishers have signed a statement on the Trump Administration's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden. Now take action with @everylibrary.bsky.social: bit.ly/EmailHayden
Visual of text for joint statement Page two of joint statementPage three of joint statement
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
HB3225 is scheduled to go before the Texas House State Affairs Committee on Monday, April 14. This is a BAD public library bill. Read @frankstrong.bsky.social’s breakdown of why this bill is so bad and what you can do about it. www.txftrp.org/stop_house_b...
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Stop House Bill 3225
Bill affecting Texas public libraries to be heard by State Affairs Committee on Monday, April 14. Call, email, and make plans to testify to oppose the bill now.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So fortunate during SXSW to see a screening of 'The Librarians,' a new documentary that spotlights these everyday heroes fighting back against censorship. Learn more in my review, now up at Book and Film Globe. bookandfilmglobe.com/film/the-lib...
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'The Librarians' Are Here To Save Us - Book and Film Globe
The Librarians deftly illuminates the last four years of organized and systemic censorship, a reality as alarming as the piles of burning books the film
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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Support @librarypolicy.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social who all have advocacy campaigns on IMLS right now. Your calls and letters matter.
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We need a list of volunteers who can be “on deck” for when the need arises to make phone calls, send emails, and/or provide in-person testimony in Austin- related to the freedom to read in TX. Please complete this form if you’re willing to volunteer in this way. www.txftrp.org/89th_leg_tes...
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Volunteer Alert: Support and Defend the Freedom to Read During the 89th Texas Legislative Session
Submit this form to join the Texas Freedom to Read Project legislative advocacy volunteer team.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Add arts grant funding to the long list of things on the chopping block. Find out what’s being cut and who’s pushing back in my latest for Book and Film Globe. bookandfilmglobe.com/politics/und...
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Under Trump, the NEA Faces an Uncertain Future - Book and Film Globe
“The Arts … belong to all the people of the United States,” proclaims the 1965 legislation that created what is now the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Thank you to @traceybaptiste.bsky.social for creating this useful graphic. Looking for tangible and practical ways to support authors in these challenging times? Here are some ways that require very little heavy lifting and that can have a very big impact.
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Dashka Slater @dashkaslater.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The people who read our books are kids. They don’t have money to spend. They don’t subscribe to publications that review books. They find us at the library. If the books aren’t there, it’s like they don’t exist. And that makes kids feel like *they* don’t exist.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Department of Defense Education Activity demands its schools remove curriculum and books related to race, gender, and more bookriot.com/department-o...
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Department of Defense Education Activity Demands Book Bans, Curriculum Censorship in Its Schools
The Department of Defense Education Activity demands its schools remove curriculum and books related to race, gender, and more.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/02/2025
On the halftime performance, on Cowboy Carter, and decentering whiteness. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2BYSSW1/
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
On Tuesday, @txfreedomread.bsky.social along with 33 partners & allies- who represent Texas parents, students, authors, librarians, educators, grandparents & concerned citizens- sent a joint letter to our elected leaders.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Department of Education unceremoniously shut down a federal avenue for blocking book bans late last week, terming bans a “hoax.” Anti-censorship advocates erupted with outrage. All the details in my latest for Book and Film Globe. bookandfilmglobe.com/politics/im-...
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I'm With The Bans - Book and Film Globe
The Trump Administration axed one legal avenue for fighting censorship, announcing Jan. 24 that it dismissed 11 federal complaints arguing that book
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is such a great exhibit. At the Bullock until Feb. 23!
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Student anti-censorship, pro-education advocates delivered a Student Bill of Rights to over 1,200 Texas legislators last week. What does such a bill of rights entail, especially in an era of censorship. I talk with the students of SEAT: bookriot.com/envisioning-...
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Envisioning a Student Bill of Rights in an Era of Censorship: Book Censorship News, January 17, 2025
In an ongoing era of book censorship and attacks on public schools and libraries, one student-led advocacy group proposes a student bill of rights.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Screen the award-winning documentary BANNED TOGETHER on Monday. Ticket sales support anti-censorship work: bookriot.com/screen-the-a...
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Screen The Award-Winning Documentary BANNED TOGETHER on MLK Day
Looking for something powerful to watch this upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Then you'll want to grab a ticket to screen the award-winning
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“When Hubert didn’t decide in favor of the book challengers, he got death threats. “I’ve had people show up to public meetings and physically try to fight me. I’ve had all kinds of names being called,” he says.” www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/School...
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School Boards Tied Up By Book Bans Face Harassment, Struggle to Address Other Issues
Book challenges overwhelm members seeking to follow library policy and address other district issues.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The pro-censorship, anti-library bills already filed for 2025 across the USA. It's your responsibility to follow these and write to your state representatives. Guide to how to do that included....as are some *positive* bills prefiled. wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
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The Pro-Censorship and Anti-Library & Bills Already Filed for 2025
Killing the Department of Education is one we already saw coming.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Your regular reminder that there are plenty of things you can and should be doing to prevent book bans before they start.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
To be clear: Even if you haven’t seen local banning at your district level, this affects you. If this moves forward it would be a catastrophic blow.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thanks to @forward.bsky.social for including me in this deeply reported piece on the Bible-infused curriculum up for a final vote Friday at the SBOE. If you want more details on why this curriculum is so problematic, this is the story to read. forward.com/news/676477/...
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Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here's why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
Texas Board of Education votes this week on a new Bluebonnet curriculum with Bible lessons featuring Esther to teach reading and math.
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It sure helped break up the 6-hour wait to testify yesterday to get texts from friends letting me know I was in the NYT. The reporter included part of my September testimony in a story about a proposed new K-5 Bible-infused reading curriculum for Texas kids. 1/x www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...
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Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools
A new curriculum would focus on Christianity more than other religions. A kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule, for example, would teach about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount.
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MothersAgainstGregAbbott @democracymoms.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Texas Press @texasobserver.org @texasmonthly.bsky.social @scottbraddock.bsky.social @dallasnews.bsky.social @chrondotcom.bsky.social @houstonchron.bsky.social @texassignal.bsky.social @austinchronicle.bsky.social @texastribune.bsky.social
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Sharyn Vane @sharynvane.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Couldn’t have asked for better weather for the Texas Book Festival!
A street near the Texas Capitol with white tents lining the way. A column in the street with a banner that reads Texas Book Festival 2024.
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