A far right battle against libraries that started in Lafayette is now unfolding across the state.
But there is another story here, one of organized opposition to extremist forces. After Mejia learned about the censorship efforts in Lafayette, she got active. “At first, it was just friend-of-a-friend type contacts,” she told. “We’d reach out to someone to see if they wanted to work with us and they’d say, ‘Oh, I know so-and-so,’ and it just moved forward from there.
In St. Tammany, Jeremy J.F. Thompson and Mel Manuel have picked up the mantle. After moving to St. Tammany, the two started Queer North Shore . It wasn’t an activist formation but a social one. “We work at home, we’re not religious so we don’t go to church, we knew we wouldn’t have any friends,” Manuel told“QNS started as a social meetup group, and it mostly still is.” But when the board targeted a Pride display in July 2022, Queer North Shore got political.
Extremists aren’t just attacking the books — they’re attacking librarians, too. In St. Tammany, the library director, this year’s, has been subject to virulent online attacks and a FOIA request for her personal correspondence. “One person I reached out to about starting an alliance said, ‘Don’t use my name, don’t tell anyone we talked,’” says Jones. Librarians have been doxxed, fired and accused of all manner of child sex crimes, all of it chilling their public opposition.
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