"Silenced for Speaking Up: When Opposing Explicit Materials for Children Triggers Free Speech Restrictions in New Jersey"
— Dan Kleinman @OccupyLibraries (@OccupyLibraries) August 10, 2026
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By Gretchen Garrity
When officials are unwilling for members of the public to expose the kinds of materials available to children in schools and libraries, you have to admit there is a potent agenda to destroy our society. It won't do to say or think, "It's not in my school." It is in your school and your library. And you cannot hide from it anymore.
Tyrants and revolutionaries always go for the children--the Nazi Youth, Mao's Red Guards and so on. Schools and libraries are vectors for indoctrination. It's not just desensitizing children to sexual themes like rape, incest, transgenderism, even necrophilia, but there is a large push of occult themes. Witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy are all common themes running through many books for minors today.
The goal is to degrade children, to affect their minds and emotions in ways that are difficult to overcome. The goal is to separate your children from you and your values so as to control and direct them. It isn't for kids "to see themselves in the library" as the ALA likes to aver. It's to infect them with a mind virus so as to make them easier to radicalize.
It's easy to see the effects--take a look at just about any college campus today. Ponder the mental health issues children and teens are dealing with today. Porn addiction is at an all-time high. Note THIS article, which states, "The explicit images, underlying messages, normative symbolic nature, and sequence of sexual behaviours depicted in pornography can influence the emotional, cognitive, and behavioural aspects of sexuality, particularly when these aspects are not yet well established (). Similar to the impact of excessive media use, pornography consumption can lead to a time displacement effect. Instead of spending time in cognitively stimulating activities such as completing homework or studying, adolescents allocate more time to viewing internet pornography. As a result, students' academic performance tends to deteriorate."
While the article details digital sexualization, public schools and libraries are full of books that include the same type of sexualization. If you don't believe me, take a walk through your local library branch. Head toward the graphic novel section, for instance. Pick up ten random books. Flip through them. This is considered "literature."
Here is one book currently in our library: Rookie on Love by Tavi Gevinson.
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| From: Christian County Library CoolCat |
It's an anthology from a now defunct online magazine named Rookie. According to Kirkus reviews, it includes "diverse voices" of teen girl love, including transgender, queerness, promiscuity, and so on. Here is a video review of the book, which is located in the Ozark teen section (ages 12 and up):
And here is a NEW (2026) book that has been placed in the Children's Comic Book section of the Clever library. Arcana: the cursed fate describes how a "queer found" family fights generational curses. There is also the use of tarot cards and graphic paranormal depictions, according to Kirkus Reviews. The first book in the duology is Arcana: The lost heirs (2025), and is found in the Nixa teen graphic novel section.
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| From: CoolCat Catalog |
As an exercise in finding out what is accessible to minors in our local libraries, click on the photo below of currently shelved books in Ozark teen section (makes the image clearer and you can enlarge). Then starting from left to right, look up the books one by one. By the time you finish the top shelf, you will see books that promote sexualization of minors, leftist political activism, and transgender ideology.
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Teen Books in Ozark Library
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Here is a review of This Book is Gay from the middle top shelf. And this one: Trans Teen Survival Guide, also on the top shelf. Here's one about the evils of capitalism: Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States: A witty, unflinching YA history tracing capitalism's toll on American workers and the fight for justice.
Dan Kleinman's article about being silenced for speaking out against explicit books in libraries, also details the remedy. Read the whole thing HERE. As he says, "Libraries are not required to treat a 10-year-old the same as a 40-year-old. They never were. The claim that they must do so comes from ALA policy, not from the US Constitution nor New Jersey law. When boards delete that policy and reclaim their own authority, the institutional pressure to silence parents and dissenting board members loses its foundation.
