Judy Blume skewered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his efforts to dictate the parameters of public education in the state: 'They are criminalizing teachers and librarians.'
. During her speech, Tuesday, April 4, Blume — who lives in Key West, Florida — laid into DeSantis and his efforts to, as she put it, “control everything, starting with what kids can think, what they can know, what they can question, what they can learn, and now even what they can talk about.”
She added, “We have a legislator who’s trying to push through a bill preventing girls in elementary school from talking about periods… Good luck there.” Blume linked these current attacks on public education to the wave of censorship she experienced first-hand, especially in the Eighties. While her classic book about puberty,, was published in 1970, Blume remembered how the “censors crawled out of the woodwork overnight” following the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
“With me, it was sexuality, and specifically puberty – which to some people was a very dirty word,” Blume said, adding that these were topics censors desperately wanted to avoid discussing. Still, the scrutiny and attacks were frightening. “I felt alone. I felt scared. I mean, this was America, right? I thought we were a country who celebrated our intellectual freedom?” Blume said. She then gave credit to the National Coalition Against Censorship , which helped her and “readers, teachers, librarians, parents, students, everyone who cared about the freedom to read, to know, to question, to choose, to learn.”
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