A renowned Australian children s author has spoken out after learning one of her children s books was banned in an American state 35 years after it was first published.
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