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Here's something no author ever expects to happen!

Carolina Bauernhaus, a brewery South Carolina, is hosting a Banned Book Club night featuring a discussion with the local library book club, and a themed menu with Good Old Fashioned Korean Pizza and Banned Book 'Bucha!

I'll be Zooming in!

This is an outcome that wasn't expected, and the feedback many of the SC BOE members gave was really, really good. Some have figured out they've become a tool of an agenda (though they say it much more diplomatically).

South Carolina State Board of Education members question the mechanisms giving one person power to ban books state wide and table the decision to remove 10 more titles from schools.

bookriot.com/south-caroli...

Library patrons in Greenville, South Carolina, with help from the ACLU and ACLU of SC, have sued the county over library policies restricting and banning LGBTQ+ materials.

bookriot.com/greenville-s...

If you're tracking the administration's claims to "end DEI" a quick thread with the docs.

TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵