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"content": "\u003cp>In an increasingly divisive political sphere, Becka Robbins focuses on what she knows best — books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operating out of a tiny room in Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District, one of the oldest gay neighborhoods in the United States, Robbins uses donations from customers to ship boxes of books across the country to groups that want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort she calls “Books Not Bans,” she sends titles about queer history, sexuality, romance and more — many of which are increasingly hard to come by in the face of a rapidly growing movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them from public schools and libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The book bans are awful, the attempt at erasure,” Robbins said. She asked herself how she could get these books into the hands of the people who need them the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Her books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers are especially enthusiastic about helping Robbins send books to states like Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, often writing notes of support to include in the packages. Over 40% of all book bans from July 2022 to June 2023 were in Florida, more than any other state. Behind Florida are Texas and Missouri, according to a report by PEN America, a nonprofit literature advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Book bans and attempted bans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-american-library-association-f84ac6fe3f8e3238fc54931bc1a5e054\">have been hitting record highs\u003c/a>, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/\">American Library Association\u003c/a>. And the efforts now extend as much to public libraries as school-based libraries. Because the totals are based on media accounts and reports submitted by librarians, the association regards its numbers as snapshots, with many bans left unrecorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside shot of Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PEN America’s report said 30% of the bans include characters of color or discuss race and racism, and 30% have LGBTQ+ characters or themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most sweeping challenges often originate with conservative organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, which has organized banning efforts nationwide and called for more parental control over books available to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms for Liberty is not anti-LGBTQ+, co-founder Tiffany Justice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-librarians-library-workers-gender-queer-book-bans-4ac552901f7ab0eca3a9dcf070b24350\">has told The Associated Press\u003c/a>. But about 38% of book challenges that “directly originated” from the group have LGBTQ+ themes, according to the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Justice said Moms for Liberty challenges books that are sexually explicit, not because they cover LGBTQ+ topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992129,forum_2010101895142,news_11989910\"]Among those topping banned lists have been Maia Kobabe’s \u003cem>Gender Queer\u003c/em>, George Johnson’s \u003cem>All Boys Aren’t Blue\u003c/em> and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said it’s more important than ever to makes these kinds of books available to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fiction teaches us how to dream,” Robbins said. “It teaches us how to connect with people who are not like ourselves, it teaches us how to listen and emphasize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sent 740 books so far, with each box worth $300 to $400, depending on the titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the new Rose Dynasty Center in Lakeland, Florida, the books donated by Fabulosa are already on the shelves, said Jason DeShazo, a drag queen known as Momma Ashley Rose who runs the LGBTQ+ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeShazo is a family-friendly drag performer and has long hosted drag story times to promote literacy. He uses puppets to address themes of being kind, dealing with bullies and giving back to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992583\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeShazo hopes to provide a safe space for events, support groups, and health clinics, and build a library of banned books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think a person of color should have to search so hard for an amazing book about history of what our Black community has gone through,” DeShazo said. “Or for someone who is queer to find a book that represents them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins’ favorite books to send are youth adult queer romances, a rapidly growing genre as conversations about LGBTQ+ issues have become much more mainstream than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters are just like regular kids — regular people who are also queer, but they also get to fall in love and be happy,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The book bans are awful, the attempt at erasure,” Robbins said. She asked herself how she could get these books into the hands of the people who need them the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Her books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers are especially enthusiastic about helping Robbins send books to states like Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, often writing notes of support to include in the packages. Over 40% of all book bans from July 2022 to June 2023 were in Florida, more than any other state. Behind Florida are Texas and Missouri, according to a report by PEN America, a nonprofit literature advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Book bans and attempted bans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-american-library-association-f84ac6fe3f8e3238fc54931bc1a5e054\">have been hitting record highs\u003c/a>, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/\">American Library Association\u003c/a>. And the efforts now extend as much to public libraries as school-based libraries. Because the totals are based on media accounts and reports submitted by librarians, the association regards its numbers as snapshots, with many bans left unrecorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-3040-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside shot of Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PEN America’s report said 30% of the bans include characters of color or discuss race and racism, and 30% have LGBTQ+ characters or themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most sweeping challenges often originate with conservative organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, which has organized banning efforts nationwide and called for more parental control over books available to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms for Liberty is not anti-LGBTQ+, co-founder Tiffany Justice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-librarians-library-workers-gender-queer-book-bans-4ac552901f7ab0eca3a9dcf070b24350\">has told The Associated Press\u003c/a>. But about 38% of book challenges that “directly originated” from the group have LGBTQ+ themes, according to the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Justice said Moms for Liberty challenges books that are sexually explicit, not because they cover LGBTQ+ topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Among those topping banned lists have been Maia Kobabe’s \u003cem>Gender Queer\u003c/em>, George Johnson’s \u003cem>All Boys Aren’t Blue\u003c/em> and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said it’s more important than ever to makes these kinds of books available to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fiction teaches us how to dream,” Robbins said. “It teaches us how to connect with people who are not like ourselves, it teaches us how to listen and emphasize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sent 740 books so far, with each box worth $300 to $400, depending on the titles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the new Rose Dynasty Center in Lakeland, Florida, the books donated by Fabulosa are already on the shelves, said Jason DeShazo, a drag queen known as Momma Ashley Rose who runs the LGBTQ+ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeShazo is a family-friendly drag performer and has long hosted drag story times to promote literacy. He uses puppets to address themes of being kind, dealing with bullies and giving back to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992583\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/img-2930-web_orig.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fabulosa Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeShazo hopes to provide a safe space for events, support groups, and health clinics, and build a library of banned books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think a person of color should have to search so hard for an amazing book about history of what our Black community has gone through,” DeShazo said. “Or for someone who is queer to find a book that represents them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins’ favorite books to send are youth adult queer romances, a rapidly growing genre as conversations about LGBTQ+ issues have become much more mainstream than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters are just like regular kids — regular people who are also queer, but they also get to fall in love and be happy,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I went to Ruth Whippman’s Berkeley home for tea in early May because it was time for my anxiety check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I arrived, I realized that my appointments with Whippman, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/opinion/boys-parenting-loneliness.html\">British author and cultural critic\u003c/a>, were aligned with presidential election cycles. I find Whippman’s candor refreshing and rational. She doesn’t sugarcoat but adds sugar to the tea that she serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whippman’s husband, Neil Levine, was working downstairs and Zephy, 10, was at band practice. Solly, 13, breezed through the kitchen on his way out the door to play Dungeons & Dragons at Games of Berkeley. As he held the toy leaf blower he was delivering to his 6-year-old brother, Abe, we briefly talked about game strategy. He flinched when Whippman lifted her light blue mug, which was the same color as her phone case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Whippman published \u003cem>BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity\u003c/em>, a treatise on the difficult challenge of raising decent men in an era when masculinity is weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em> is a memoir of a six-year stretch that included the election of a rapacious, misogynistic and xenophobic president, the #MeToo movement, the rise of the masculinity influencer and the isolation of the pandemic. Whippman, a mother of three boys, was concerned about raising her sons alongside a generation of boys that insecure tough guys are exploiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using reporting and analysis, she interrogated the toxic patterns in boys and men. In the book, you’ll meet insecure teenage boys. You’ll meet hopeless incels — the portmanteau of “involuntary celibate” — who are susceptible to the agitators who play on the fears of white male emasculation for likes. You’ll also meet fathers, mothers and therapists who are battling the invisible ways we separate boys from their humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute, how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s go back to 2017, when women began using a hashtag to shine awareness on sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman poses for a photo at her home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As much as it was a revelation of substance, #MeToo was a revolution of storytelling,” Whippman writes in \u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em>. “Perhaps the ultimate power available to any human being is to have control of the narrative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>#MeToo exposed men who used privilege, power and wealth to assault women and dodge consequences. The left branded masculinity as toxic, while the right, if you will, leaned in and packaged toxic masculinity, as Whippman writes, “the answer to all our problems, both politicians and online influencers peddling a new brand of wounded, furious manhood, drawn from a combination of superhero fantasies and defensive rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh boy, we are in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Whippman’s reporting, boys mature more slowly than girls socially, cognitively and physically, and are about 10 times more likely than girls to develop into antisocial adolescents. But what is less well known is that boys are more vulnerable emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad irony is that while masculinity norms push boys to be tough — to squash their feelings and hide their weaknesses, right from birth and throughout childhood — young boys are actually more sensitive and emotionally fragile than young girls,” Whippman writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because society expects rigid stoicism from men, mental health for boys often goes undetected, Whippman posits. Instead of emotional support, boys are getting infected by men who project an impossible standard of masculinity. To some, men are supposed to be without flaws, feelings or vulnerabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Jerry Seinfeld said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/-real-man-jerry-seinfeld-says-misses-dominant-masculinity-rcna154708\">missed dominant masculinity\u003c/a>. Andrew Tate spews toxic, misogynistic commentary that is parroted by YouTubers, podcasters and social media influencers who get rich by preaching about alpha male achievements. They want you to believe that masculinity is under attack and only a strongman — you know, the kind anointed to sell Bibles for 60 bucks — is capable of making manhood great again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987768\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman writes notes in her office at her home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For something that is supposed to be so innate, masculinity sure seems to take a lot of hard work,” Whippman quips in the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the “scripts of masculinity,” Whippman went to Iron Gate, a therapeutic center for adolescent boys and young men in southern Utah. When I first met Whippman in 2016, the pursuit of happiness had prompted her to visit happy Mormons in Utah to report for \u003cem>America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks\u003c/em>, her book about how our cultural obsession with happiness made us crazy. I was then a columnist at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and, over tea, we talked about the multibillion-dollar self-improvement industry that sold everything but happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Author-finds-happiness-not-misery-loves-company-9961102.php\">column\u003c/a> was published two days after America became familiar with how a certain presidential candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html\">talks in locker rooms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em>, Whippman also traveled to New York to an exclusive, all-boys private school that boasts politicians, journalists and banking executives as alumni to sit in on Modern Masculinities, a class that challenges toxic masculinity. In the Los Angeles area, she attended Guys Group, a therapy and social group for teen boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys are at a social disadvantage because we have failed to model more intimate friendships, according to Whippman. “Online life can open up new worlds and perspectives that might otherwise be closed off to them,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys have retreated online to play video games and mingle virtually on communication platforms such as Discord and Telegram, where they are exposed to racism and hate. They socialize less because they don’t have the real-world friendships and relationships they crave. They are isolated. Worse, they are lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just easier to just retreat into a screen when they feel like nobody cares about them,” Whippman told me as we sat at her kitchen table. “Everyone thinks they’re terrible. Everyone thinks they’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman sits with her husband, Neil Levine, and sons Abe, 6, Zephy, 10, and Solly, 13, at their home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whippman’s most illuminative reporting is reserved for the back half of the book. She ventured into the online forums where right-leaning and alt-right people congregate on 4chan, 8chan and other violent communities. It’s where the aggrieved find solace among others who share a deep hatred of women. The spaces are where incels, an online subculture of men frustrated with a lack of sexual experiences, are accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a notorious overlap between misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia and anti-semiticism in online spaces,” Whippman writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t many interviews with incels about their personal perspectives and experiences. Whippman went beneath surface-level reporting to examine the emotional and psychological triggers that were driving boys and young men to such intolerant spaces. In the book, she shares the stories of young men she interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We must understand the path that leads to hatred if we’re going to offer a course correction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I wanted to do was to not give them a platform for their opinions. They absolutely don’t need that,” she told me. “And I in no way wanted to promote these toxic opinions, but I wanted to listen to the feelings that were driving them,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905968/how-to-raise-sons-in-the-age-of-impossible-masculinity\">she said last week in an interview at KQED after appearing on Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s going to feel some sense of inadequacy or shame that they have to make up for in some way,” she continued. “It’s not their masculinity that makes them violent. It’s the shame that they’re not masculine enough, that they’re not meeting the standard. That’s where the violence is. That’s where the toxicity is. It’s those feelings of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a petulant former president who, I imagine, abhors accountability as much as he does facts, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts\">convicted of 34 felony counts of falsified business records\u003c/a>. He still faces indictments for election inference, hoarding national security documents and for attempting to overturn election results. He’s been whining about getting the conviction overturned while obsessively wailing about the election he fairly lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone should tell the walking tough guy meme that boys don’t cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Whippman published \u003cem>BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity\u003c/em>, a treatise on the difficult challenge of raising decent men in an era when masculinity is weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em> is a memoir of a six-year stretch that included the election of a rapacious, misogynistic and xenophobic president, the #MeToo movement, the rise of the masculinity influencer and the isolation of the pandemic. Whippman, a mother of three boys, was concerned about raising her sons alongside a generation of boys that insecure tough guys are exploiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using reporting and analysis, she interrogated the toxic patterns in boys and men. In the book, you’ll meet insecure teenage boys. You’ll meet hopeless incels — the portmanteau of “involuntary celibate” — who are susceptible to the agitators who play on the fears of white male emasculation for likes. You’ll also meet fathers, mothers and therapists who are battling the invisible ways we separate boys from their humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute, how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s go back to 2017, when women began using a hashtag to shine awareness on sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman poses for a photo at her home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As much as it was a revelation of substance, #MeToo was a revolution of storytelling,” Whippman writes in \u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em>. “Perhaps the ultimate power available to any human being is to have control of the narrative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>#MeToo exposed men who used privilege, power and wealth to assault women and dodge consequences. The left branded masculinity as toxic, while the right, if you will, leaned in and packaged toxic masculinity, as Whippman writes, “the answer to all our problems, both politicians and online influencers peddling a new brand of wounded, furious manhood, drawn from a combination of superhero fantasies and defensive rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh boy, we are in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Whippman’s reporting, boys mature more slowly than girls socially, cognitively and physically, and are about 10 times more likely than girls to develop into antisocial adolescents. But what is less well known is that boys are more vulnerable emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad irony is that while masculinity norms push boys to be tough — to squash their feelings and hide their weaknesses, right from birth and throughout childhood — young boys are actually more sensitive and emotionally fragile than young girls,” Whippman writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because society expects rigid stoicism from men, mental health for boys often goes undetected, Whippman posits. Instead of emotional support, boys are getting infected by men who project an impossible standard of masculinity. To some, men are supposed to be without flaws, feelings or vulnerabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Jerry Seinfeld said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/-real-man-jerry-seinfeld-says-misses-dominant-masculinity-rcna154708\">missed dominant masculinity\u003c/a>. Andrew Tate spews toxic, misogynistic commentary that is parroted by YouTubers, podcasters and social media influencers who get rich by preaching about alpha male achievements. They want you to believe that masculinity is under attack and only a strongman — you know, the kind anointed to sell Bibles for 60 bucks — is capable of making manhood great again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987768\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-12-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman writes notes in her office at her home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For something that is supposed to be so innate, masculinity sure seems to take a lot of hard work,” Whippman quips in the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the “scripts of masculinity,” Whippman went to Iron Gate, a therapeutic center for adolescent boys and young men in southern Utah. When I first met Whippman in 2016, the pursuit of happiness had prompted her to visit happy Mormons in Utah to report for \u003cem>America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks\u003c/em>, her book about how our cultural obsession with happiness made us crazy. I was then a columnist at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and, over tea, we talked about the multibillion-dollar self-improvement industry that sold everything but happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Author-finds-happiness-not-misery-loves-company-9961102.php\">column\u003c/a> was published two days after America became familiar with how a certain presidential candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html\">talks in locker rooms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>BoyMom\u003c/em>, Whippman also traveled to New York to an exclusive, all-boys private school that boasts politicians, journalists and banking executives as alumni to sit in on Modern Masculinities, a class that challenges toxic masculinity. In the Los Angeles area, she attended Guys Group, a therapy and social group for teen boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys are at a social disadvantage because we have failed to model more intimate friendships, according to Whippman. “Online life can open up new worlds and perspectives that might otherwise be closed off to them,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys have retreated online to play video games and mingle virtually on communication platforms such as Discord and Telegram, where they are exposed to racism and hate. They socialize less because they don’t have the real-world friendships and relationships they crave. They are isolated. Worse, they are lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just easier to just retreat into a screen when they feel like nobody cares about them,” Whippman told me as we sat at her kitchen table. “Everyone thinks they’re terrible. Everyone thinks they’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-BoyMom-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Whippman sits with her husband, Neil Levine, and sons Abe, 6, Zephy, 10, and Solly, 13, at their home in Berkeley on May 22. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whippman’s most illuminative reporting is reserved for the back half of the book. She ventured into the online forums where right-leaning and alt-right people congregate on 4chan, 8chan and other violent communities. It’s where the aggrieved find solace among others who share a deep hatred of women. The spaces are where incels, an online subculture of men frustrated with a lack of sexual experiences, are accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a notorious overlap between misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia and anti-semiticism in online spaces,” Whippman writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t many interviews with incels about their personal perspectives and experiences. Whippman went beneath surface-level reporting to examine the emotional and psychological triggers that were driving boys and young men to such intolerant spaces. In the book, she shares the stories of young men she interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We must understand the path that leads to hatred if we’re going to offer a course correction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I wanted to do was to not give them a platform for their opinions. They absolutely don’t need that,” she told me. “And I in no way wanted to promote these toxic opinions, but I wanted to listen to the feelings that were driving them,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905968/how-to-raise-sons-in-the-age-of-impossible-masculinity\">she said last week in an interview at KQED after appearing on Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s going to feel some sense of inadequacy or shame that they have to make up for in some way,” she continued. “It’s not their masculinity that makes them violent. It’s the shame that they’re not masculine enough, that they’re not meeting the standard. That’s where the violence is. That’s where the toxicity is. It’s those feelings of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a petulant former president who, I imagine, abhors accountability as much as he does facts, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts\">convicted of 34 felony counts of falsified business records\u003c/a>. He still faces indictments for election inference, hoarding national security documents and for attempting to overturn election results. He’s been whining about getting the conviction overturned while obsessively wailing about the election he fairly lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone should tell the walking tough guy meme that boys don’t cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this month, the San Francisco Public Library shared a list of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/releases/2023/11/22/books-you-loved-heres-what-san-francisco-was-reading-and-listening-2023\">the top fiction and nonfiction books read by library patrons this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Dysfunctional family memoirs,” said Jaime Wong, deputy director of communications, was one of the themes. “That speaks to people wanting to read about the experience of someone who has trials and tribulations but also demonstrates a strength to overcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopPrintFiction\">Top Print Fiction\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopeBooksFiction\">Top eBooks Fiction\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopPrintNonfiction\">Top Print Nonfiction\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopeBookNonfiction\">Top eBook Nonfiction\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopTeenFiction\">Top Teen Fiction\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#TopVinyl\">Top Vinyl\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, what were the top five most-read books across all formats, including fiction and nonfiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow —\u003c/em> Zevin, Gabrielle (14083)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Lessons in Chemistry\u003c/em> — Garmus, Bonnie (12314)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Spare\u003c/em> — Prince Harry (11936)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>I’m Glad My Mom Died\u003c/em> — McCurdy, Jennette (10195)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Demon Copperhead\u003c/em> — Kingsolver, Barbara (9179)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>All are bestsellers published in the last couple of years that received national recognition. The top books show that San Franciscans are “tapped into a bigger conversation about books and want to be a part of the cultural discourse,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the books cover different topics, from the struggle with addiction and poverty in Appalachia to the dysfunction of the British royal family, Wong says they all have “a riveting storyline, and they allow readers to step into the shoes of someone else and experience, just for a moment, another life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to books, the library also included the top vinyl albums of the year, according to library circulation. “The love of vinyl is absolutely in line with San Francisco’s legendary music history,” Wong said. The library saw a rise in vinyl checkouts during the pandemic, and in 2022, they increased the collection by more than 50%, adding thousands of albums, including both contemporary and classic music. In fiscal year 2019, Wong said they circulated 7,226 records, and in fiscal year 2023, the circulation increased to 17,076, up 136%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, an avid reader and someone who loves being surrounded by books for her job, “It’s like being in a candy store all day,” often recommends Gabrielle Zevin’s \u003cem>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow \u003c/em>and\u003cem> This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life \u003c/em>by Bay Area authors Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The book is based on the story of the first podcast created entirely inside a prison. “You will come out of that book with an entirely new understanding of America’s carceral system,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong says the library has begun tracking data more closely over the past couple of years and is able to respond to demand from patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans read quality books,” she said. “It’s a city deeply committed to a rich literary heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here are the full lists by category, including links to KQED coverage:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"TopPrintFiction\">\u003c/a>Top Print Fiction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>When No One Is Watching\u003c/em> by Alyssa Cole\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Lessons in Chemistry\u003c/em> by Bonnie Garmus\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Demon Copperhead\u003c/em> by Barbara Kingsolver (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894520/barbara-kingsolver-on-her-great-appalachian-novel-demon-copperhead\">Featured on KQED Forum\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c/em> by Gabrielle Zevin (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891916/video-games-friendship-and-renewal-light-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow\">Featured on KQED Forum\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Covenant of Water\u003c/em> by Abraham Verghese\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Our Missing Hearts\u003c/em> by Celeste Ng (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1128629001/celeste-ngs-our-missing-hearts-explores-a-new-dystopia-through-a-teenagers-eyes\">Featured on NPR\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>When We Were Sisters\u003c/em> by Fatimah Asghar (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/15/1129295163/poet-and-filmmaker-fatimah-asghars-debut-novel-is-when-we-were-sisters\">Featured on NPR\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Dry\u003c/em> by Neal Shusterman\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Happy Place\u003c/em> by Emily Henry\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Hello Beautiful\u003c/em> by Ann Napolitano\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"TopeBooksFiction\">\u003c/a>Top eBooks Fiction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c/em> by Gabrielle Zevin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Lessons in Chemistry\u003c/em> by Bonnie 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The proposal is meant in part to address situations like one over the summer when the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953735/task-force-says-california-textbooks-should-reflect-states-diversity\">rejected\u003c/a> a social studies curriculum for elementary students that addressed Harvey Milk — who became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101893478,news_11961363\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“This banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America and increasingly here in the state of California where we have school districts large and small, banning books, banning free speech, criminalizing librarians and teachers, and we want to do more than just push back rhetorically,” Newsom said in the bill signing posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politics have been in the spotlight just as libraries around the country mark the annual Banned Books Week campaign, which runs Oct. 1–7 and highlights the historical and current efforts to censor books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Library Association has been tracking attempted book bans for over 20 years, and its Office of Intellectual Freedom recorded nearly 1,270 attempted book bans last year — the highest number since the ALA began compiling this kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/book-ban-data\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For librarians, like Threets, who are caught in the middle of divisive politics, they see their mission just as vital now. He talked about all this and what libraries have meant to him with KQED’s Brian Watt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of their interview which has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: You have taken your love of books and the library online. You have a huge social media following with over half a million followers combined across Instagram and Tik Tok. What made you want to do this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYCHAL THREETS:\u003c/strong> When I first started posting those videos, I was hoping for a thousand views. I think the first one that went “viral” was about a library kid coming up to me at the children’s desk. They said, “Is it … is it a boy librarian or is it a girl librarian?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqo3bETAXot/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could just see, the mom’s eyes widened. I said, “I’m a boy librarian.” And that story just shook up my heart, shook up my soul. I was like, “That was a funny, honest encounter; let me share it with the world. Maybe a thousand people will see it.” It took off. Millions of people saw it. From then on, I started sharing more stories on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You work at the same library that you grew up going to. What does it mean to see families coming in and asking for the same books that you once asked for as a kid?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a very shy kid, stricken by anxiety. I’m not as shy as an adult, but I’m still crippled by anxiety and other mental health things. Books and libraries, ever since I can remember, have been my first friends. They’ve been the way that I’ve made friends [and] connections. I feel like when I get around books, get around libraries, I become a whole different person. They just bring out whatever light is inside of me. Those books and libraries have the power to pull it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like you said, I got my first library card at the Fairfield Civic Center Library when I was 5 years old. That’s where I got my first library job. It’s where I’m now the supervisor. So to be able to see kids come in and ask for books by Louis Sachar and Beverly Cleary, or they want to check out \u003cem>Encyclopedia Brown\u003c/em>, it’s like a dream come true. It’s a full circle moment for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about the politics. Politicians in the U.S. arguing for banning books is nothing new. That’s been happening for decades now, but this issue has heated up in the last couple of years. So I’m curious to know what you’ve been making of this from where you stand as a librarian.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From my perspective, as a librarian, what you just asked is just so difficult. So books should not be something that is political. I always go on and on about the joy of books. We should just be talking about putting as many books as possible in the arms, in the backpacks and on the house shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How has this manifested in your library branch? This uptick in the tension in the issue of banning books.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s rare for my library system. Solano County is one of the most diverse counties in the United States, but we still have issues there. A couple of years ago, we did a Banned Books Month celebration instead of Ban Books Week, where we were encouraging people to exercise their freedom to read. And that meant that we put the banned books on display in the library front and center. Many of the themes of banned books are people of color, LGBTQIA+ themes, and those are all things that people simply \u003cem>are\u003c/em>. And more often than not, we just got words of encouragement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America and increasingly here in the state of California where we have school districts large and small, banning books, banning free speech, criminalizing librarians and teachers, and we want to do more than just push back rhetorically,” Newsom said in the bill signing posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politics have been in the spotlight just as libraries around the country mark the annual Banned Books Week campaign, which runs Oct. 1–7 and highlights the historical and current efforts to censor books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Library Association has been tracking attempted book bans for over 20 years, and its Office of Intellectual Freedom recorded nearly 1,270 attempted book bans last year — the highest number since the ALA began compiling this kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/book-ban-data\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For librarians, like Threets, who are caught in the middle of divisive politics, they see their mission just as vital now. He talked about all this and what libraries have meant to him with KQED’s Brian Watt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of their interview which has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: You have taken your love of books and the library online. You have a huge social media following with over half a million followers combined across Instagram and Tik Tok. What made you want to do this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYCHAL THREETS:\u003c/strong> When I first started posting those videos, I was hoping for a thousand views. I think the first one that went “viral” was about a library kid coming up to me at the children’s desk. They said, “Is it … is it a boy librarian or is it a girl librarian?”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You could just see, the mom’s eyes widened. I said, “I’m a boy librarian.” And that story just shook up my heart, shook up my soul. I was like, “That was a funny, honest encounter; let me share it with the world. Maybe a thousand people will see it.” It took off. Millions of people saw it. From then on, I started sharing more stories on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You work at the same library that you grew up going to. What does it mean to see families coming in and asking for the same books that you once asked for as a kid?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a very shy kid, stricken by anxiety. I’m not as shy as an adult, but I’m still crippled by anxiety and other mental health things. Books and libraries, ever since I can remember, have been my first friends. They’ve been the way that I’ve made friends [and] connections. I feel like when I get around books, get around libraries, I become a whole different person. They just bring out whatever light is inside of me. Those books and libraries have the power to pull it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like you said, I got my first library card at the Fairfield Civic Center Library when I was 5 years old. That’s where I got my first library job. It’s where I’m now the supervisor. So to be able to see kids come in and ask for books by Louis Sachar and Beverly Cleary, or they want to check out \u003cem>Encyclopedia Brown\u003c/em>, it’s like a dream come true. It’s a full circle moment for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about the politics. Politicians in the U.S. arguing for banning books is nothing new. That’s been happening for decades now, but this issue has heated up in the last couple of years. So I’m curious to know what you’ve been making of this from where you stand as a librarian.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From my perspective, as a librarian, what you just asked is just so difficult. So books should not be something that is political. I always go on and on about the joy of books. We should just be talking about putting as many books as possible in the arms, in the backpacks and on the house shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How has this manifested in your library branch? This uptick in the tension in the issue of banning books.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s rare for my library system. Solano County is one of the most diverse counties in the United States, but we still have issues there. A couple of years ago, we did a Banned Books Month celebration instead of Ban Books Week, where we were encouraging people to exercise their freedom to read. And that meant that we put the banned books on display in the library front and center. Many of the themes of banned books are people of color, LGBTQIA+ themes, and those are all things that people simply \u003cem>are\u003c/em>. And more often than not, we just got words of encouragement. But there were still instances where you could see people shake their head and say under their breath, “Not one of those books I know. I don’t know if the kids should be reading those books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for me, fellow like-minded library workers, we’re all just trying to do what we can to ensure that kids, teens, grownups, everybody continues to have access to all the beautiful books that are being created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are people of color, they are LGBTQ+, and there’s nothing wrong with that. And when I hear books being banned, books being challenged, that is what you’re essentially telling kids, telling teens that there’s something wrong with what they’re reading about, especially in an age where in the last three or four years, libraries, schools have seen an uptick of authors of color, illustrators of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or 26 years, a San Francisco-based digital library has stood in stark opposition to today’s commercial information ecosystem, hallmarked by paywalled periodicals, pricey books and advertisement-driven media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the Internet Archive’s massive warehouse, with towers of books new and old, it begins to sink in just how ambitious the nonprofit organization’s mission is: to preserve millions of texts and lend them freely online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the library’s philosophy is now being tried in court, as a \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/publishers-beat-internet-archive-as-judge-rules-e-book-lending-violates-copyright/\">ruling in a major lawsuit against the Internet Archive\u003c/a> not only threatens to remove many of the free books from the Internet Archive’s website, but also could set the tone for digital libraries across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to try to fulfill the dream of the internet, of a universal library, and of universal access to all knowledge. A digital Library of Alexandria,” Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian for the Internet Archive, told KQED, referencing one of the world’s \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5912689/library-of-alexandria-burning/\">earliest and most storied libraries\u003c/a>. “The San Francisco Public Library, the Burlingame Public Library and many libraries around the Bay Area donate books when they don’t need them anymore to the Internet Archive rather than, say, landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-book lending is used across libraries and publishing houses, and often libraries will license those digital books from publishers. Through its \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/ol_data\">Open Library\u003c/a>, the Internet Archive maintains that it uses a model known as “controlled digital lending,” where a library owns a book, scans it digitally and loans the digital copy to one user at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in March 2020, when physical libraries were closed due to the pandemic and students were learning from home, the Internet Archive temporarily removed waitlists so anyone could access the books online, calling the initiative the National Emergency Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man with grey-white hair wearing a dark sweater reaches out to close a grey metallic door as huge cardboard boxes labeled as containing books sit in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books labeled from “Allen County Public Library’’ at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Archive stopped the program and returned to its regular lending practices in June 2020, the same month that Hachette Book Group and other major publishers hit the Internet Archive with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging copyright infringement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, a federal judge in New York sided with the publishers, which include Penguin Random House, Wiley and HarperCollins, ruling that the Internet Archive violated copyright infringement laws through both the Open Library and the National Emergency Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive founder\"]‘The publishers demanded that we destroy millions of digitized books and stop lending, and they sued us for tens of millions of dollars. That was the publishers’ response when libraries closed, was to sue libraries.’[/pullquote]In its \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/document/complaint-50\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, Hachette Group argued that the Internet Archive “badly misleads the public and boldly misappropriates the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishers specifically complained about \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.1.1.pdf\">127 books not under public domain (PDF)\u003c/a> that are stored and offered freely on the Archive, by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Jon Krakauer, Toni Morrison, Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis and J.D. Salinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publishers say Open Library flouts licensing fees libraries are supposed to pay them. But because libraries already paid licensing fees for the print books that the Internet Archive scans as part of the Open Library project, the nonprofit asserts that their one-to-one lending system constitutes fair use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“IA’s fair use defense rests on the notion that lawfully acquiring a copyrighted print book entitles the recipient to make an unauthorized copy and distribute it in place of the print book, so long as it does not simultaneously lend the print book,” the Southern District of New York Judge John Koeltl \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf\">stated in his ruling (PDF)\u003c/a>. “But no case or legal principle supports that notion. Every authority points the other direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"A man in the distance stands in a walkway between two huge walls of grey storage containers stacked on top of each other inside what appears to be a massive warehouse\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Soper, physical warehouse manager and archivist, walks alongside storage containers at the Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight is not over, though. The Archive, with support from its fandom of technologists, librarians, researchers, authors and digital rights activists, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/\">plans to appeal the ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The publishers demanded that we destroy millions of digitized books and stop lending, and they sued us for tens of millions of dollars. That was the publishers’ response when libraries closed, was to sue libraries,” said Kahle. “I don’t think it was very good behavior. In fact, it’s horrendous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Built in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Archive is rooted in the Bay Area, spiritually with its high-tech-meets-open-access ethos, and physically, in the form of a Greek-columned, former Christian Science church-turned media museum in San Francisco’s Richmond District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up photo of a shiny metallic plaque with text on it below a columned icon which is the symbol of the Internet Archive\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the Internet Archive’s offices in San Francisco reads, ‘Universal access to all knowledge.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside its warehouse in the city of Richmond, just across the bay, rows of shipping containers hold meticulously organized boxes of books donated from places like the California State Library, the University of Florida, UC Riverside, the San Francisco Public Library and many other institutions the Archive helps to digitize books for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collection also includes an entire section of books that are banned, as well as books that legislators across the U.S. are actively attempting to ban. Nationwide, attempts to ban books nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022, reaching the highest point ever recorded at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022\">1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the American Library Association, which began tracking the data nearly 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"Someone wearing a bright orange hoodie sits at an archiving station holding an open book and facing a computer screen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliza Zhang scans books at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, staff with the Archive can be found tucked away at its San Francisco-based library scanning physical books, many of which are donated by local public libraries and university libraries, as well as individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse has used the Internet Archive for her work and was a fan from afar until she visited the Archive’s Richmond District location on a recent sunny Friday afternoon, when it hosts lunches open to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking for this very obscure book on art and I couldn’t find it anywhere, not in libraries or bookstores. And then I found it on the Archive and I read it online and borrowed it,” said Adriaanse. “Since then I’ve been borrowing books from them that I can’t find in the library. And if I want to buy a book to support a book, I buy it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with short brown hair stands facing a middle-aged white man, both smiling and engaged in conversation, with an old time record player in the background within a corridor which appears to be lined with vinyl records\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle shows Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse an early record player at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was among about two dozen people who stopped by the Archive recently for its Friday lunches, during which Kahle is often around providing tours. On this particular Friday, the tour group was made up of fans visiting from out of the country, filmmakers, academics, archival vigilantes who scan the internet for websites to save, and video game designers in town for a conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In black socks with no shoes, Kahle dazzled the group with stories of the early internet days in the Archive’s common space. Then he laced up for a tour to the main attraction, a stained-glass chapel bordered with 3-foot-tall figures of people who are part of the Archive’s history and present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of what appear to be dozens of clay figurines which are delicately painted and apparently standing near church pews\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/042_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statues of the Internet Archive staff, including founder Brewster Kahle, line church pews at the former church-turned-offices in San Francisco. Kahle explained that his idea was to create Terracotta Archivists after he saw the Terracotta Army in China. If you work for the Internet Archive for three years, a statue of you is made. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the pulpit there’s a tower of computer screens scrolling through bygone pages of the earliest days of the internet. The Internet Archive also runs the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/web/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a>, a digital archive of more than 800 billion webpages and counting, ranging from early ’90s blogs to news websites and Donald Trump’s tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the rows of pews, a giant server studded with lights that flash every time something is uploaded to the Archive twinkles like a technologic starry sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local musician and filmmaker Rohit Rao regularly works out of the space, which offers free public Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was drawn to it for nostalgia at first. But more recently, I’ve been uploading my films to the Archive. I had a bunch of these hard drives with films on there and I wanted to store them online,” said Rao, hunched over a keyboard in the Archive’s living room. “Lately, they’ve been giving me space to work. I might track my entire record here if they’re cool with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of digital libraries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whichever way the Archive’s appeal in the publishers’ lawsuit ultimately goes, some librarians and authors say it could set the stage for what book lending looks like in an increasingly digital era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some books could altogether disappear, advocates of the Archive say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Gibbs, who taught folklore and mythology online for the University of Oklahoma for more than 20 years, frequently used the Archive with her students. In more recent years, she has been dedicated to uploading and preserving some of the rare texts she works with, which are often hard to access elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This completely changed my research, and I do all my reading via the Internet Archive now,” said Gibbs, who was on the tour. “It just feels like the most important thing I’ve ever done. This is the future of education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with glasses and grey hair stands in front of what appears to be a large shelving unit full of memorabilia in a large, clean, well lit room\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Gibbs looks at memorabilia at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Controlled digital lending “enables many authors to reach more readers than they could otherwise, and authors like our members who write to be read would not be served if fewer readers could access their books,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.authorsalliance.org/about/\">Authors Alliance\u003c/a> wrote in response to the recent ruling. The Alliance is a broad coalition of librarians, writers, academics and copyright attorneys who advocate for wider public access to books and knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive case also arrives as more libraries are digitizing their books to meet new customer demands and technological shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The argument that the Internet Archive isn’t a library is wrong. If this argument is accepted, the results would jeopardize the future development of digital libraries nationwide. The Internet Archive is the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2023/03/17/librarians-should-stand-internet-archive-opinion\">a group of eight librarians from MIT, UC Berkeley and other prominent institutions recently wrote in an op-ed for Inside Higher Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged white man standing up gestures intensely as he speaks with the backs of audience members listening blurred in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/004_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle speaks to guests, volunteers and staff at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco on March 24. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive says that it is, in fact, a modern-day library, pointing out that it has received government dollars earmarked for libraries, including from \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/universal-service-program-schools-and-libraries-e-rate\">the federal E-Rate program\u003c/a>, which provides funds and discounts on internet connection for schools and libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authors like Adriaanse understand the tough reality of making it financially as a writer, and that publishers need to make money to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was pleasantly surprised to find her own books on the Archive, as well as other free digital lending services at her local Dutch library system during the pandemic for people who didn’t have a library card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a lot more readers, so that tells you there are a lot of people out there who want to read but don’t have a library card or money to buy books,” Adriaanse said. “It is inspiring. It makes me think we can have universal access to knowledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-book lending is used across libraries and publishing houses, and often libraries will license those digital books from publishers. Through its \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/ol_data\">Open Library\u003c/a>, the Internet Archive maintains that it uses a model known as “controlled digital lending,” where a library owns a book, scans it digitally and loans the digital copy to one user at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in March 2020, when physical libraries were closed due to the pandemic and students were learning from home, the Internet Archive temporarily removed waitlists so anyone could access the books online, calling the initiative the National Emergency Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man with grey-white hair wearing a dark sweater reaches out to close a grey metallic door as huge cardboard boxes labeled as containing books sit in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books labeled from “Allen County Public Library’’ at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Archive stopped the program and returned to its regular lending practices in June 2020, the same month that Hachette Book Group and other major publishers hit the Internet Archive with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging copyright infringement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, a federal judge in New York sided with the publishers, which include Penguin Random House, Wiley and HarperCollins, ruling that the Internet Archive violated copyright infringement laws through both the Open Library and the National Emergency Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/document/complaint-50\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, Hachette Group argued that the Internet Archive “badly misleads the public and boldly misappropriates the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishers specifically complained about \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.1.1.pdf\">127 books not under public domain (PDF)\u003c/a> that are stored and offered freely on the Archive, by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Jon Krakauer, Toni Morrison, Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis and J.D. Salinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publishers say Open Library flouts licensing fees libraries are supposed to pay them. But because libraries already paid licensing fees for the print books that the Internet Archive scans as part of the Open Library project, the nonprofit asserts that their one-to-one lending system constitutes fair use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“IA’s fair use defense rests on the notion that lawfully acquiring a copyrighted print book entitles the recipient to make an unauthorized copy and distribute it in place of the print book, so long as it does not simultaneously lend the print book,” the Southern District of New York Judge John Koeltl \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf\">stated in his ruling (PDF)\u003c/a>. “But no case or legal principle supports that notion. Every authority points the other direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"A man in the distance stands in a walkway between two huge walls of grey storage containers stacked on top of each other inside what appears to be a massive warehouse\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Soper, physical warehouse manager and archivist, walks alongside storage containers at the Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight is not over, though. The Archive, with support from its fandom of technologists, librarians, researchers, authors and digital rights activists, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/\">plans to appeal the ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The publishers demanded that we destroy millions of digitized books and stop lending, and they sued us for tens of millions of dollars. That was the publishers’ response when libraries closed, was to sue libraries,” said Kahle. “I don’t think it was very good behavior. In fact, it’s horrendous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Built in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Archive is rooted in the Bay Area, spiritually with its high-tech-meets-open-access ethos, and physically, in the form of a Greek-columned, former Christian Science church-turned media museum in San Francisco’s Richmond District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up photo of a shiny metallic plaque with text on it below a columned icon which is the symbol of the Internet Archive\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/054_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the Internet Archive’s offices in San Francisco reads, ‘Universal access to all knowledge.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside its warehouse in the city of Richmond, just across the bay, rows of shipping containers hold meticulously organized boxes of books donated from places like the California State Library, the University of Florida, UC Riverside, the San Francisco Public Library and many other institutions the Archive helps to digitize books for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collection also includes an entire section of books that are banned, as well as books that legislators across the U.S. are actively attempting to ban. Nationwide, attempts to ban books nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022, reaching the highest point ever recorded at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022\">1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the American Library Association, which began tracking the data nearly 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"Someone wearing a bright orange hoodie sits at an archiving station holding an open book and facing a computer screen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/016_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliza Zhang scans books at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, staff with the Archive can be found tucked away at its San Francisco-based library scanning physical books, many of which are donated by local public libraries and university libraries, as well as individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse has used the Internet Archive for her work and was a fan from afar until she visited the Archive’s Richmond District location on a recent sunny Friday afternoon, when it hosts lunches open to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking for this very obscure book on art and I couldn’t find it anywhere, not in libraries or bookstores. And then I found it on the Archive and I read it online and borrowed it,” said Adriaanse. “Since then I’ve been borrowing books from them that I can’t find in the library. And if I want to buy a book to support a book, I buy it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with short brown hair stands facing a middle-aged white man, both smiling and engaged in conversation, with an old time record player in the background within a corridor which appears to be lined with vinyl records\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle shows Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse an early record player at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was among about two dozen people who stopped by the Archive recently for its Friday lunches, during which Kahle is often around providing tours. 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Kahle explained that his idea was to create Terracotta Archivists after he saw the Terracotta Army in China. If you work for the Internet Archive for three years, a statue of you is made. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the pulpit there’s a tower of computer screens scrolling through bygone pages of the earliest days of the internet. The Internet Archive also runs the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/web/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a>, a digital archive of more than 800 billion webpages and counting, ranging from early ’90s blogs to news websites and Donald Trump’s tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the rows of pews, a giant server studded with lights that flash every time something is uploaded to the Archive twinkles like a technologic starry sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local musician and filmmaker Rohit Rao regularly works out of the space, which offers free public Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was drawn to it for nostalgia at first. 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