Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Baring It All for the Freedom to Read

Shelf Awareness

A group of French publishers and booksellers stripped and posed for a discreetly indiscreet photograph "in a pointed protest towards the leader of the country's conservative UMP party, Jean-François Copé," who had publicly criticized the children's book Everybody Get Naked recently, the Local reported, adding that the attack was part of an ultraconservative effort to compel public libraries to remove "children's books the extremists viewed as promoting gender theory or the idea one's sex is flexible and not determined by birth."

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