three topics sexuality or gender, sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual an physical violence. removing books that deal wit these three are real topic sent a clear message to reader that those groups matter less, those experiences should b explored, less they certainl should not be discussed in costumes parents have stood at they have made his books entirely out of conference and these so-called activist typically do not read th books. in their entirety. instead require on list of hundreds of titles - from conservative lawmakers, guests, or organized conservative pressure groups these plants are not actin alone, or many would have you concerne parents. preserving in the, since gettinga backwards, robbin their children, and disservice picking up a copy of the books speak, could help a woma recovering from sexual assault on her voice reading her martin could help bird of racism feel a little less alone what erased could help a student with their own
How badly it hurts them. thanks again to tod strasser, author of numerous young adult books, including give a boy are gone. we have more of this year an meeting with the velshi banned book club coming up, but again the loudest voices demanding that removal of books from library shelves and curricul are parents, organized and supported by highly supporte conservative activist groups but they are parents younger left closing off young minds will not make the next generation more intelligent or more model it is likely to do the opposite those on the velshi banned boo club have tilting themself, an i asked them about fello parents calling for their book to be banned honestly, i think people ar afraid i say this as a parent myself. i have a fourth grader and a kindergartner, and i understan the impulse and the instinct t wants to keep your childre safe and innocent. the difference between m
Their children, and disservice picking up a copy of the books speak, could help a woma recovering from sexual assault on her voice reading her martin could help bird of racism feel a little less alone what erased could help a student with their own sexua identity feel understood and even loved looks like these can sav lives. understanding the literature discussing those topics of rac and it is crucial for each and every one of us, for the station for our ability to nurture critical thinking an ultimately as you will hea from margaret, what democrac itself these are stories that educate nurture, and comfort at the start of the velshi banned book club, our thesis was never okay today, that these are stil holds, but after speaking with so many authors, and reading s many of these targeted books the velshi banned book club ha become more than just
Platform to highlight instance of censorship, it is a form of resistance reading as resistance. we are going to keep opening these books, and we are goin to keep discussing them. this is the very first year an meeting of the velshi banned book club. so let s get started as we started this project, on bestseller emerged on almost every single banned book clu from ohio to florida, all boys are not blue by georgia an johnson. it wasn t easy an obviou choice for our first feature it is a features of essays wit a coming of age story that follows johnson from childhood to young adulthood, as the grapple with their identity an agency as a black nonbinar person all boys aren t blue touches o critical issues includin institutionalized an racialized violence, sexual, abuse and gender identity, exactly the themes that we hav seen and again and again and again. one of the most interestin things about featuring all boy aren t blue is the reaction we got from you, our book clu
we started the banned boo club in february of 2020, to a has grown into something large and more fruitful than we ever imagined the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting and removal of s many important books fro libraries and school curriculums across the country according to p.e.n. america, the nonprofit organization tha champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2020, one to jun 2022 there were 2532 instances of individual books being banned. that is a shocking number. what the figure does not mak clear, the types of books that are being banned as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature to feature for you with authors from margaret atwood t jonathan - a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted books should at least one of the sam