<h1 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.538em;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.26;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/rise-a-feminist-book-project-for-ages-0-18/" rel="bookmark" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18</a></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.923em;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 0.6em;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.385;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="author-link" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.998998641967773px;font-style:inherit;margin:0.7em 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block">Posted by <a href="https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/author/kelseykeyes/" rel="author" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(39,141,188)">kelseykeyes</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1.286em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.538;color:rgb(64,64,64)" dir="auto"><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"></p><div style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/rise-a-feminist-book-project-for-ages-0-18/">https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/rise-a-feminist-book-project-for-ages-0-18/</a></div><br><p></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Amelia Bloomer Project will now be known as Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The project has been promoting quality feminist literature for young readers since 2002 as a part of the Feminist Task Force and the Social Responsibilities Round Table. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">This year, the committee was made aware that, though Amelia Bloomer had a platform as a publisher, she refused to speak against the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (Simmons). SRRT and FTF believe librarians and libraries must work to correct social problems and inequities with particular attention to intersectionality, feminism, and deliberate anti-racism. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">As a result, the committee unanimously voted in favor of a name change. Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18, reflects the diversity and inclusion for which feminism as a whole — and this committee specifically — strives. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br>Simmons, L. (2016, September 23). Petition of Amelia Bloomer regarding suffrage in the West. <span style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">National Archives</span>. Retrieved from <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/bloomer" target="_blank" style="border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(39,141,188)">https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/bloomer</a></p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><em><span st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<span>“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”―Maya Angelou</span><span></span></h6><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"></span></div></div></div></div>