Adult Services Librarian Meneka Thiru is planning the new group. She is one of many Anchorage-based librarians working to transform the city’s library system to reflect hard leftist ideology through the promotion of critical race theory and LGBTQ ideology. …

While Anchorage libraries have been radicalized under nearly a decade of leftist leadership from recently retired Director Mary Jo Torgeson….

Torgeson’s oversaw implementation of Drag Queen Story Hour in which cross-dressing drag performers lead young children in song and dance while reading books that celebrate gender non-conformity. She has also promoted LGBTQ books, clubs and activism in the area’s five libraries, and has been a strong proponent of highlighting so-called systemic racism, white privilege and social inequity. The library network has taken steps to reeducate and reform its staff and rework its book collections and other materials to better reflect what Torgeson considers properly “equitable, diverse and inclusive” libraries.

The recent election of Mayor-elect Dave Bronson, however, could impact the future direction of Anchorage libraries. Bronson, who will be sworn in on July 1, is a strong, unapologetic conservative and the library director will serve at his pleasure.

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