Librarian Sues Over Firing After Drag Queen Story Hour
Jonathan Newton, who was a librarian for seventeen years at South Carolina’s Five Forks Branch, is suing after being forced to resign over a Drag Queen Story Hour event that riled up the phobics. “Newton alleges that his Greenville County Library System supervisor, Beverly James, expressed opposition to the event, at which drag queens read to children, and, in forcing him out, bowed to political pressure from leaders in Greenville County.”
Dolly Has A Poem
Social distancing surely isn’t going to keep Dolly Parton from entertaining us. Being a songwriter, it’s not surprising that she’s a natural poet too. She put that skill, and her humor, to use and wrote us a poem about how hard being in quarantine is. Watch her recite her poem.
Ramona Quimby Creator Turns 104
Beverly Cleary, the author and creator of the pesky five-year-old Ramona Quimby–who helped generations of children make sense of emotions while being small in a big world that didn’t always make much sense–celebrated her 104th birthday. And this joke has left me really wanting to read a comic where Ramona pesters the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!