Emily Drabinski, Queens College, City University of New York
Date and Location, TBD

Since 2021, libraries have become a target of organized forces seeking to suppress the stories of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC people and our histories. Attempts to remove books from library shelves have reached record numbers while legislation in states from Florida to Idaho has enshrined censorship into law. Such restrictions on the right to think, write, and read place libraries at the center of the fight for American democracy. 

Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor at the Queens College (CUNY) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She edits Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. Drabinski served as the 2023-24 President of the American Library Association.

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