Of all places, Blue Hill. I tend to think of Maine as sane moderates' heaven. Or it might be that the library doesn't want young progressives from everywhere (and even from "away") marching into town, blocking traffic, and screaming.
If only librarians, teachers, et al. would see things the way J.K. Rowling does: Dress as you please, love…
Of all places, Blue Hill. I tend to think of Maine as sane moderates' heaven. Or it might be that the library doesn't want young progressives from everywhere (and even from "away") marching into town, blocking traffic, and screaming.
If only librarians, teachers, et al. would see things the way J.K. Rowling does: Dress as you please, love whom you want -- but please do not expect the world at large to pretend that gender is assigned, that brawny young men can say they're women and get to swim in women's meets or inhabit women's safe spaces or prisons -- or that 10-year-olds know who they are and what they want from year to year.
This last especially. As a teacher of almost 40 years who often taught the same groups of kids in middle and then upper school, or even in sixth and then seventh grade, it was fun to see how their ideas, goals, peeves, and even nicknames change over the years.
Starting hormones at 12 and undergoing life-changing surgery at 17? I certainly hope Abigail Shrier's book stays on the shelves.
Which doesn't at all mean I want the Christian Right dictating what can be read.
Of all places, Blue Hill. I tend to think of Maine as sane moderates' heaven. Or it might be that the library doesn't want young progressives from everywhere (and even from "away") marching into town, blocking traffic, and screaming.
If only librarians, teachers, et al. would see things the way J.K. Rowling does: Dress as you please, love whom you want -- but please do not expect the world at large to pretend that gender is assigned, that brawny young men can say they're women and get to swim in women's meets or inhabit women's safe spaces or prisons -- or that 10-year-olds know who they are and what they want from year to year.
This last especially. As a teacher of almost 40 years who often taught the same groups of kids in middle and then upper school, or even in sixth and then seventh grade, it was fun to see how their ideas, goals, peeves, and even nicknames change over the years.
Starting hormones at 12 and undergoing life-changing surgery at 17? I certainly hope Abigail Shrier's book stays on the shelves.
Which doesn't at all mean I want the Christian Right dictating what can be read.