The association last year created itsUnite Against Book Bansnational initiative “to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.” During April’s National Library Week, the plan is to observe the first anniversary of that initiative. More on the American Library As...
focusing on the policies that restrict the teaching of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Topics discussed include Iowa's House File 802 and Senate File 496, the broader national trend of anti-LGBTQ legislation, and strategies for English teachers to resist censorship in the...
Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
Op-Comic: 3,362 book bans? What year is this, anyway? Jones fell into depression. She said she cried so hard that her eyes swelled shut; she had panic attacks, and her blood pressure spiked. She wondered how to explain the furor to her teenage daughter. She went to a therapist and ...
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Many of the books have been banned for simply featuring people who identify as LGBTQ+, with a third of all book bans from April to June including people with such identities, often under a spurious justification that the titles are “obscene”. Race and discussion of America’s racist past ...
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book AwardsPart memoir, part manifesto, ...
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PEN America also released a newly updated Banned in the USAreporton April 20, noting in the report’s subtitle “State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools.” Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina racked up the most bans overall, serving as models for restrictive policies ...
Gormancited an analysis from The Washington Postthat showed most book bans in the country were filed by just 11 people. Advocates for book restrictions say it is a matter of parents' rights, and that parents should be able to have a say in what their children have access to at school...