Book bans in Ron DeSantis’s Florida have censored beloved Australian Mem Fox – for an illustrated character’s bath. But blanket nudity bans teach children bodies are ‘inherently sexual’.
A fifth-grade teacher is being investigated by her school and the Education Department for showing her students the Disney movie Strange World, which features an openly homosexual character. The complaint comes in the midst of a national debate on whether LGBTQ issues should be taught in schools
Renowned children's author Mem Fox says a message from her literary agent that one of her books had been banned in the US state of Florida made her "howl with laughter".