Library Works With Church to Revive Canceled Drag Queen Story Hour: Vital Linking, June 14, 2019

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“It’s a few group that has extra range than politicians understand. And it’s a few world that’s altering and individuals who wish to be extra loving than folks saying, ‘Be quiet and sit down.’ … We’re honored to be referred to as into the center of that,” he stated.

A Texas public library and a progressive church are working collectively to carry a beforehand canceled drag queen story hour!

“The most well-liked image books printed in 2018 collectively current a white and male-dominated world to kids, characteristic only a few BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) characters and have turn out to be extra biased in opposition to ladies up to now yr, Guardian analysis reveals.”

Troubling information from the UK.

“’Leonardo appears to have begun recording his ideas in notebooks from the mid-1480s,’ writes the Victoria & Albert Museum (the V&A), ‘when he labored as a army and naval engineer for the Duke of Milan. None of Leonardo’s predecessors, contemporaries or successors used paper fairly like he did—a single sheet comprises an unpredictable sample of concepts and innovations.’ He labored on free sheets, which have been later certain collectively in books, or codices, by the artists who inherited them. As now we have been reporting, these pocket book collections have been coming accessible on-line in open, high-resolution digital variations.”

Leonardo da Vinci’s pocket book collections at the moment are digitized in high-res.