World’s Largest Library Association Picks Self-Proclaimed Marxist As President

World’s Largest Library Association Picks Self-Proclaimed Marxist As President

Kendall Tietz on April 22, 2022

The world’s largest library association has selected a self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian” to serve as its president.

I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity!

And my mom is SO PROUD I love you mom.

— Emily Drabinski (@edrabinski) April 13, 2022

As part of her “Vision for ALA,” Drabinski said the “consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism have led us here,” but argued for change through “collective power” and the use of “public goods like the library,” according to her personal website.

“Thank you for your confidence and support of my vision for ALA and your role in that vision,” she said, according to the press release. “We have a lot of work ahead to build collective power for the public good. I can’t wait to get started with all of you.”

Parents across the country have protested school library books that they believe to be inappropriate and pornographic, while many critics, teachers and school administrators have pushed back on the protests as an attempt at “book burning.”

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, was one of Drabinski’s endorsers, according to her website.

“In the face of increasing challenges to school library books and teachers’ curricula, we need a strong American Library Association defending free inquiry in our shared pursuit of the public good,” Weingarten said. “Emily Drabinski knows how to organize and mobilize on behalf of library workers and our communities.”

Drabinski and the American Library Association did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.