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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

EXPLAINED: Everyone is included | Vintage Vibes

Ginny Wehrli-Hemmeter, director of events and marketing at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, with the store’s Juneteenth book display, which keeps getting taken down and hidden around the store — part of a national epidemic of vigilante censorship, some of it organized. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times)

When Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville announced June 9 that someone is plucking books from their displays and hiding them in the store, they didn’t specify what sort of books are being taken.

I assumed the stashed volumes were books about queer youth and trans acceptance and such, the segment of human behavior currently singled out for special harassment by those who feel entitled to establish limits on human nature that maximize their own comfort.

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