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National Library Week is April 23-29, 2023. This national annual observance celebrates the contributions of libraries and their staff to their communities and greater society. This year's theme is "There's More to the Story" - a reminder that while libraries are full of stories on their shelves, they are more than their collections of books.

By Mikayla Redden (Follow us on LinkedIn) If you read my last post, you might remember the trampoline full of tennis balls metaphor I provided as an example of how living with a neurodivergent…

Recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled charges of national origin discrimination and retaliation against Total...

Governor Hochul announced that the NYS Department of Labor has finalized updates to the State's Sexual Harassment Model Policy, a template document that NYS provides to employers to help them comply with State laws and access state-of-the-art policies on sexual harassment and related topics to protect employees in the workplace.

Legal experts, librarians and some parents say House Bill 900’s language is so vague and broad that it could ensnare books that are not inappropriate.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) – After a unanimous city council vote, 10.6 acres of ancestral land will begin to be returned to the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The city of Tucson is returning a portion of ancestral land to the Tohono O’odham Nation in a new resolution unanimously passed by the City Council this week. The nearly 11-acre stretch of land is located at the base of Sentinel Peak, a more than 2,000 foot peak southwest of what is today downtown Tucson. The Santa Cruz river runs right next to one side of the mountain's base and the Tohono O’odham’s Hohokam ancestors have farmed and lived there for more than 4,500 years.Mayor Regina Romero calls it the birthplace of Tucson.

A survey by Cilip shows members of the public using increasingly threatening behaviour about the removal of books on empire, race and LGBTQ+ themes

The decision means that, at least for now, women can still obtain mifepristone by mail as the legal battle continues.

The movement needs to rethink its rhetoric.

My history of trauma and sexual harassment didn't stop or disappear when I came out as transgender, but most of my community did.

The Human Rights Campaign tracked at least 26 deaths of transgender people due to violence. The majority of victims were black transgender women.

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We are saddened to learn of the death of Poe Black, a 21-year-old transgender man who was killed in Niland, California, in early May.

Advocates say despite a slight decrease in hate crimes overall, the incidents remain "unacceptably high"

After 36 years I now have male privilege - like a secret agent pushing feminism and undermining the patriarchy from the inside, says the writer Lee Hurley

The House is expected to vote Thursday on a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions.

PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports. Attorneys for the fa…

Washington will become the sixth state to pass such protections.

“They are choosing to prioritize legislating hate over the economic well-being of the state."

A new rule proposed by the Biden administration would prevent schools and colleges from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but it would allow certain limits to promote fairness or reduce injuries.

A Kansas proposal with some of the nation's broadest bathroom restrictions and a ban on transgender people changing their driver's licenses has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature. The state Senate voted 28-12 on Tuesday with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s expected veto. The action came the same day Arkansas lawmakers sent Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders a scaled back bathroom bill of their own with criminal penalities. Both are among several hundred measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the U.S. The Kansas measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities.

A state representative announced she identifies as nonbinary, gender-nonconforming on Monday during a House Appropriations Committee discussion of a Republican bill that would prohibit school employees from calling students by their preferred pronouns or a name not listed on their school record without parental consent.

An attack on trans youth is an attack on us all.