The wildly popular coming-of-age story has won awards and praise, but one critic of Gender Queer called it a porn book that Democrats want to put in middle schools.
Conversations about the bans often garner attention on a wider scale, says Ananya Sen. Increased attention can either deter people from reading the book or influence consumers to read it.
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The Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill and appeared to take a shot at GOP book laws. Regimes ban books, not democracies, Pritzker said at the bill signing.