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Republifascists in Missouri hate Libraries
An extention of organized fascist book bannings is… defunding libraries.
The Republifascists running the state of Misery decided the state budget wouldn’t include public or school libraries.
This is a dystopia, indeed. It reminds me of Fahrenheit 451. Not to mention of course Nazis burning books.
When I dwelled in St. Louis, I went to the public library constantly. I lived near two branches and often reserved books — I sometimes even paid $1 for interlibrary loan. Four times a year, there was a huge library sale, where you could buy a bag of former library books for a few dollars.
St. Louis has an amazing, beautiful central library built in the early 1900s and inspired by Italian Renaissance architecture. The ceiling features a stained-glass windows. The building’s shape is a central oval inside a large rectangle.
Several St. Louis library branches are what I think of as Andrew Carnegie libraries, which all stared with the same floorplan (and I’ve seen an identical library in Ireland an identical former library in Portland, Oregon).
Libraries are a big deal everywhere, including in St. Louis. You can read all kinds of books for free — including books by and about people of color and LGBTQIA+ people. Of course, that’s why fascists don’t want people to read and don’t want to fund libraries.
Violet & Steampunk Boy, my favorite book (volume 3) in my middle grade fantasy series Rowanwick Witches, is available here: