Julianne Moore just lately shared that she is “shocked” to be taught that President Donald Trump’s conservative administration has “banned” her 2007 youngsters’s e book, “Freckleface Strawberry,” from faculties all over the world which can be operated by the Division of Protection Schooling Exercise, or DoDEA.
On Sunday, the Oscar winner posted an image on Instagram shared by literary and free expression group PEN America from its account on the social media platform, which confirmed the duvet of “Freckleface Strawberry” together with the phrases “banned by the Division of Protection.”
The approaching-of-age story, which prompted a series of follow-ups since 2007, was impressed by Moore’s upbringing. In a caption for her publish, she defined that she wrote the e book for her youngsters “to remind them that all of us battle, however are united by our humanity and group.”
“Freckleface Strawberry is a semi-autobiographical story a couple of seven yr outdated lady who dislikes her freckles however ultimately learns to stay with them when she realizes that she is completely different ‘similar to all people else,’” Moore wrote.
“I’m notably shocked as a result of I’m a proud graduate of Frankfurt American High School, a #DOD faculty that after operated in Frankfurt, Germany,” she mentioned. “I grew up with a father who’s a Vietnam veteran and spent his profession within the #USArmy.”
“It’s galling for me to understand that children like me, rising up with a father or mother within the service and attending a [DoDEA] faculty is not going to have entry to a e book written by somebody whose life expertise is so just like their very own,” she added.
An company that is part of the Division of Protection, the DoDEA manages 161 faculties for kids of army households worldwide, according to its website.
The Protection Division said in a memo final week obtained by The Guardian that library books “probably associated to gender ideology or discriminatory fairness ideology subjects” have been being examined, with Moore’s e book amongst “a small quantity” stored for “additional overview.”
And in a statement to CNN, DoDEA spokesperson Will Griffin mentioned that no books had been banned but however didn’t affirm if “Freckleface Strawberry” was faraway from faculties overseen by the company. The assertion additionally didn’t supply particulars on how lengthy the overview would final.
“I can’t assist however surprise what’s so controversial about this image e book that [causes] it to be banned by the US Authorities,” Moore wrote elsewhere in her publish’s caption. “I’m really saddened and by no means thought I might see this in a rustic the place freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional proper.”
Her shock was echoed within the publish’s feedback part by actors, influencers and fellow authors, who balked on the ongoing efforts from Republican politicians claiming to guard free speech whereas banning books.
“Oh my pal that is horrifying! I’m so sorry that is occurring!!” Halle Berry wrote.
In one other remark, actuality tv producer Andy Cohen mentioned, “What an absolute joke. The get together of free speech banning books.”
