Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore stated Sunday it was “a great shock” that her 2007 kids’s e-book “Freckleface Strawberry” wound up amongst these banned by the Trump administration whereas beneath “compliance review” at faculties run by the U.S. Division of Protection.
In a put up on Instagram, the stymied star wrote her e-book “is a semi-autobiagraphical story about a 7-year-old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different, ‘just like everybody else.’”
“It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, ‘Freckleface Strawberry,’ has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defense,” she wrote, including: “It is a book I wrote for my children and for other kids to remind them that we all struggle, but are united by our humanity and our community.”
Moore’s e-book is amongst dozens positioned off limits for at the very least per week in class libraries operated by the DOD as the brand new administration goals to roll again protections for transgender folks and terminate range, fairness and inclusion applications throughout the federal authorities.
Dad and mom obtained a DOD memo on Feb. 10 saying it was scrutinizing library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics,” reported The Guardian, which obtained a duplicate. That utilized to a “small number of items” that had been being stored for “further review,” the memo said.
As many as 67,000 kids attending the 160 Pentagon-operated faculties in seven U.S. states and 11 nations will likely be affected.
The nonprofit literature and writing advocacy group Pen America flagged the “Freckleface Strawberry” inclusion, together with “Becoming Nicole” — and “No Truth Without Ruth” about late U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“The removal of these titles is yet another indicator of the new Administration’s flippant and autocratic approach to K-12 education,” Pen America stated in its personal Instagram put up.
Moore stated the exclusion reduce notably deep as a result of she was educated at one such faculty in Germany, and is the proud daughter of her Vietnam vet dad.
“It is galling for me to realize that kids like me, growing up with a parent in the service and attending a [DOD] school will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar to their own,” Moore wrote, including: “I am truly saddened and never thought I would see this in a country where freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional right.”
