According to a report by PEN America, 40% of banned and challenged books have BIPOC protagonists, and 41% have LGBTQ protagonists and/or LGBTQ major plots or themes. Librarians know that censorship is bad. Censorship surges in school libraries are not a new or uniquely 2020s problem. In the early 1980s, the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom recorded a spike in ban attempts because some parents were fearful that their kids were being taught secular humanism. Dorothy Bendix wrote in 1969, "self-censorship by the librarian threatens the freedom to read. It is as great a threat, if not greater, than pressure group censorship." This article explores the question: how do librarians honor Bendix's assertions about the profession in this uncertain world?