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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”
Clarice Lispector, from “A Breath of Life”
Patti Smith, from “Devotion”
Elena Ferrante, from “Incidental Inventions”
Marguerite Duras, from “Écrire”

Jane Austen’s writing table at Chawton Cottage, Hampshire
Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England
Virginia Woolf’s writing desk in her writing lodge at Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex
Reconstruction of Daphne du Maurier’s study at the Smugglers Museum, Jamaica Inn, Cornwall

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Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?

Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.

Seriously.

What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.

Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.

  • A comment like “I love this” or “Wow, that looks great!”
  • An email about how much you’re excited about X event
  • A call saying you wanted to let them know you appreciate this thing
  • Tagging them if you share a picture or positive comment on social media
  • “Cool shirt/pins/etc!” (Because people are also bring harassed about personally being queer, even if it’s not a library display)
  • Literally anything that would be positive for them to receive
YES THIS IS WHAT I RECOMMEND TO PPL EVERYDAY seriously it takes less than a minute to do this social media email phone calls in person thank them for pride displays diverse collections specific books I will say putting it in writing helps a ton and do it everywhere your schools local stores thank EVERYONE for it and it sucks we have to do this but it shows we have the numbers the vocal minority is spewing vitriol all over the place and one comment can erase so much of their hate if you’re an ally wondering what to do this pride month this is such a simple way of helping