📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.”
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
April 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Picture a library employee who doesn’t understand the First Amendment. Now add a demand for patron addresses and reading lists. Congratulations, you’ve invented a bargain-basement censor with the ambition of a Stasi intern. #CodyYork can go fuck himself and good for #LuanneJames!
📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Picture a library employee who doesn’t understand the First Amendment. Now add a demand for patron addresses and reading lists. Congratulations, you’ve invented a bargain-basement censor with the ambition of a Stasi intern. #CodyYork can go fuck himself and good for #LuanneJames!
#LuAnneJames community park with a LuAnne James Liberty Library in homage to librarians with all the world's banned/censored books. And we can just have BBQ and picnics reading books, learning things people don't want us to know about. Lol. Over 21, of course bc there's no going back to being naive.
“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said…
“Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement.
Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...”
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“Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement.
Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...”
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section
A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.
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April 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM
#LuAnneJames community park with a LuAnne James Liberty Library in homage to librarians with all the world's banned/censored books. And we can just have BBQ and picnics reading books, learning things people don't want us to know about. Lol. Over 21, of course bc there's no going back to being naive.
Luanne James... Hero. Has more courage in her actions recently than a dozen of Trump lifetimes.
#luannejames #TACO
#luannejames #TACO
March 31, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Luanne James... Hero. Has more courage in her actions recently than a dozen of Trump lifetimes.
#luannejames #TACO
#luannejames #TACO
📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.”
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
March 31, 2026 at 8:21 PM
We need more brave people like her!❤️
#LuanneJames
#LuanneJames
🦸 RUTHERFORD COUNTY hero librarian Luanne James making national news for taking a stand.💪🏽
She says she stands by her decision.
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She says she stands by her decision.
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April 1, 2026 at 3:11 AM
We need more brave people like her!❤️
#LuanneJames
#LuanneJames
One would expect a Library Director understands book classification better than a group of board members.
My compliments to #LuanneJames for having the courage to stand by her principles. We need more like her, desperately.
My compliments to #LuanneJames for having the courage to stand by her principles. We need more like her, desperately.
📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.”
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
March 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
One would expect a Library Director understands book classification better than a group of board members.
My compliments to #LuanneJames for having the courage to stand by her principles. We need more like her, desperately.
My compliments to #LuanneJames for having the courage to stand by her principles. We need more like her, desperately.