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08/31/09
(Mega Beth in the the Rubbercity Rollergirls, but wasn't one of the skaters who had a bust made.)
Here is a link to the pics: [www.slide.com]
edited to add link!
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Rubber City is another league in Akron, they split from us & founded their league when there was a dispute over coaching and the role of men in the leadership of women's roller derby.
Which bust did your sister do? Was she(were you) able to make it out to the bout and auction this Saturday? We raised over 4 grand for our chosen cancer charity.
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I am out of the country and my sister has just moved out of state to start a teaching job at a University so unfortunately neither of us was able to be at the auction and bout. The bust she did was for Amber Vendetta. :)
I really enjoyed the opening. Can you send me a personal message to say which skater you are? I would love to put a commenter to the bust! (But I totally understand if you don't want to!)
And well done on the 4 grand!
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*I'm Mexican, that's why it works*
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I'm planning on joining my local roller derby team and I'm having a Dickens of a time trying to think of a name.
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Also, damn she's awesome.
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And I would literally be boo-boo kitteh since i'd be falling on my ass.
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Balls.
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True, you won't stumble on Tintin in the Congo while it's shelved in the Hunt Collection, but neither will you stumble across a first folio of Shakespeare or a Hemingway manuscript. But that hasn't stopped people from learning about this material, and working with it for both scholarship and pleasure. We could, and probably should, debate the merits of moving the book from open shelving to special collections, but there are a LOT of shades of grey between "totally available" and "banned," and a good special collections librarian will make sure the materials under his or her guardianship are as available as possible to users, even if they're not available for checkout.
(Also, I'd like to know the age and condition of the particular volume in question, which could also have something to do with the part of the library's collection in which it wound up...)
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There are several Nazi children's books like this one [www.calvin.edu] Libraries should keep this type of material for people who are interested, but it really isn't appropriate for the children's stacks. I think people should have to go looking for books like that. There are already plenty of books that cover the same material in a balanced way, we don't have to treat propaganda like its standard fiction.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney
Essays on Education
08/19/09
So, when is Song of the South being reissued from the Disney vaults? Oh, n/m...
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As for libraries, I think that segregating some of these (such as the TinTin) out of the children's section is a decent idea. They should then be available in the general fiction sections.
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Maybe these books should stay where they are and someone needs to write a definitive children's book on the history of racism in children's media.
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We inch closer and closer to F451 every day.
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Tintin books have major problems, but they're also beautiful comics. I'm conflicted about how much I like them in some ways, but they absolutely shouldb't be shoved out of site in the reject book room.
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In general, I think that even the potentially (and the obviously) offensive books should be available to adults, because like you say, libraries are about books, not people's feelings. And people can and do get themselves offended over little things, too; where do you draw the line?