censorship Archives - Victoria Waddle

10 May 2024

Scapegoats: Book, Library, and Dog Blaming

by Victoria Waddle | posted in: Book Reviews | 2

My last Substack post might be of interest: It’s so strange, the way librarians and library books have become the scapegoat for American society’s ills. I found myself needing to talk about the blame game. Blaming books for dangerous teen … Continued

8 Aug 2022

Censoring Empathy: Let’s Challenge Erasure

by Victoria Waddle | posted in: Book Reviews, Censorship, YA fiction, YA literature | 0

Book censorship is far more threatening than it was ten years ago because it erases anyone who doesn’t look or think like the censor.

9 Nov 2018

Independent Bookstores: I Do Like Them

by Victoria Waddle | posted in: Author Events, Censorship, Independent Bookstores, Inlandia Institute | 1

Say! I like this intriguing book! I do! I like it, take a look! And I would read books in a boat. And I would read them with a goat… And I will read them, … Continued

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Sexism and Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World

Virtually every girl and woman I see in therapy feels as if they got away with something when they experience success. They bring up the term ‘imposter syndrome’ and say, ‘that’s me exactly.’”

Sometimes We Tell the Truth

Sometimes is, in fact, a modern telling of Chaucer’s tales with teens as the pilgrims. Except that these pilgrims are not making a commitment to the Almighty. They are going to Washington D.C . on a six-hour bus trip with their Civics class teacher.