As if taking hold of Kennedy Center and Equalous NEA contributions were not enough, Trump Administration seems to come for the Oscar-award-winning actress and writer Julianne Moore.
IN A post on InstagramMoore revealed that her children’s book 2007, “Freckleface Strawberry”, “banned” from schools run by the Ministry of Defense. This came as a great “shock” for her given that the novel’s message is one of the unit.
“‘Freckleface Strawberry’ is a semi-autobiographical story about a seven-year-old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different ‘just like everyone else’ ‘wrote Moore.” It is A book I wrote for my children and for other children to remind them that we are all struggling, but are united by our humanity and our society. ”
Moore added that even more hurtful for her was that she graduated from a DOD gymnasium that once operated in Frankfurt, Germany, where her father was stationed.
“I grew up with a father who is a Vietnam veteran and spent his career in #usarmy,” she said. “I couldn’t be proud of him and his service to our country.”
Despite this pride, Moore still finds the situation “mad”, especially for children who will now not be able to seek material that reflects a life experience “that is similar to their own.”
“I can’t help but wonder what is so controversial about this image book that makes it banned by the US government,” Moore wrote. “I’m really sad and never thought I would see this in a country where freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional right.”
These new regulations of Trump administration was handed over by the US Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA), which announced on February 7 that it would remove and review “Books that are potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory stock ideology subjects” in DOD schools and also work to terminate programs, activities and activities Holidays related to these subjects. According to military publication Stars and stripesMany schools began to adopt this policy immediately, with Wiesbaden Elementary School in Germany even goes as far as removing a portrait of Michelle Obama painted on ice cream to honor Black History Month.
In response to Friday 14 February, American Library Association and American Association of School Librarians released A joint statement condemns these measures. It read: “Dodea School Libraries provide a lot of information and resources to their communities. By ordering removal and suppression of learning materials and activities in their schools and libraries, Dodea is to get involved in censorship of legitimate opinions and opinions that violate the first amendments to those who serve our nation and their families and thus deny them the freedoms they have promised to protect with their lives. “
It continued, “these shameful censorship regulations erase history and silences the voices of Americans whose lives reflect the diversity in our nation. The brave people who defend us deserve to exercise the rights they protect, and their children deserve the right to read a wide range of materials and learn from a series of perspectives that reflect the abundance of ideas from all Americans. Military personnel, with input from school librarians and teachers who serve them, should trust to choose the resources that meet their families’ information needs. “
According to A post shared by Pen AmericaIn addition to Moore’s “Freckleface Strawberry”, another material under “Compliance Review” is a picture book entitled “No Truth Without Ruth.” It was written by Kathleen Krull and covers the life of the late Supreme Court’s justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The biography “Becoming Nicole”, written by Amy Ellis Nutt, was also presented among the books censored by Dodea. It tells the true story of transgender people and activist Nicole Maines when she and her family, including her identical twin brother, begin to understand and care for her new gender identity.
