Kirsten Brassard, Gay’s publicist at Groundwood Books, said the episode sends a “hateful message” coming from a public library,

“This proves, as always, that censorship is never about limiting access to this book or that one. It is about sending the message to children that certain ideas — or even certain people — are not worthy of discussion or acknowledgment or consideration,” Brassard told the news outlet.

Preach!

Republicans are such fragile little traitor bitches.

If they could read, I’m sure they’d be mad.

“mistakenly” is carrying a lot of weight there.

I see no one RTFA, the book was electronically flagged, and removed from the review list after the mistake was uncovered.

Reminds me of the time the Scunthorpe problem reared its head in a conservative newspaper and sprinter Tyson Gay was autocorrected to Tyson Homosexual 😄

Then it’s a shitty library.

Cataloging is an important job and a real librarian takes it seriously. Whether they create the catalog or get records from somewhere else, it should be triple checked and have hands on it at least twice.

More importantly, we don’t censor or classify/rate books.

Read Me a Story, Stella (explicit) - Feat. Marie-Louise Gay