These are particularly challenging times to work in libraries. Needs keep increasing; The budget is flat, if not down; And the attacks from outside parties continue to destabilize institutions and protect their wealth. Library staff are feeling the impact on their mental health, even sometimes especially! If they love the work very much. However this
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia schools can continue to enforce bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s teams. It is the latest development in a political and legal attack on trans people, and trans youth in particular, that has increased in recent years. Following that decision,
Susan Wiggs recommends Lisa Wingate, Ellen Marie Wiseman, Megan Church and others The “wayward girl” in fiction – and unfortunately, in reality – is defined less by her own actions and more by a society committed to getting her “right.” “Promiscuousness” is usually a symptom of being too poor, too outspoken, or simply getting in
Youth ATVs are a great idea. They bring the children out. They teach them vehicle control and maneuverability. And they are absolutely fun. My daughter has been rocking Kawasaki’s KX50 ATV for the past year and she’s been running around the house like a bat, giggling like a lunatic. But recently, several off-brand youth-oriented ATVs
(On June 16, 1976, the youth of Soweto, Johannesburg’s overwhelmingly black township, rose up to protest a new rule making Afrikaans the language of instruction in their schools—a language most people did not know well. They were led by Tsitsi Mashinini, a charismatic high schooler. The nationwide outburst Tsitsi made that day would change South