“Teachers are under fire, librarians are threatened,” Blume said. “They are criminalising teachers and librarians. It’s not just that they’re threatening their jobs, they’re threatening them. They could go to jail, all because they stand up for the rights of the students they teach. All because they refuse to give in to fear. I’ve known librarians who have saved lives by handing the right book to the right child at the right time. And for that one kid, finding themselves in a book can be a lifesaver,” Blume said in her speech.
Blume is no stranger to literature censorship, her 1970 children’s novel ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ faced significant backlash from fringe societal and political enclaves.
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