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– #8: Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity and for “vulgarity and sexual overtones” – #7: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Reasons: Challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for a transgender character, and for confronting a topic that is “sensitive, controversial, and politically charged” – #6: I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas Reasons: Challenged and restricted for featuring a gay marriage and LGBTQIA+ content for being “a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate young children” with the potential to cause confusion, curiosity, and gender dysphoria and for conflicting with a religious viewpoint – #5: Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack, illustrated by Stevie Lewis Reasons: Challenged, banned, and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content for discussing gender identity and sex education and for concerns that the title and illustrations were “inappropriate” – #4: Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg, illustrated by Fiona Smyth Reasons: Challenged and vandalized for LGBTQIA+ content and political viewpoints, for concerns that it is “designed to pollute the morals of its readers,” and for not including a content warning – #3: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller Reasons: challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, for “its effect on any young people who would read it,” and for concerns that it was sexually explicit and biased
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– #2: Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin Reasons: challenged, banned, restricted, and hidden to avoid controversy for LGBTQIA+ content and a transgender character because schools and libraries should not “put books in a child’s hand that require discussion” for sexual references and for conflicting with a religious viewpoint and “traditional family structure” “So which books are actually being banned *now*? Here’s the current top 10, and the reasons why, and you can read more about Banned Books Week at the link. (Psst: they’re usually the librarians fighting to keep the books on the shelves.) In short: it’s never been “the libs” banning these books, y’all. I suspect they’re being trotted out falsely as current because the current political climate makes it easy to pretend that “woke liberals” are trying to get old classics pulled off the shelves for not being with the times, buuuuuuuut (1) they aren’t, and (2) when these books WERE being banned, it wasn’t the left doing it, it was people upset by Huckleberry Finn discussing American racism, or who thought that 1984 was “pro communist”. Many of you probably remember them fondly from your youth – I do too, but it was OUR youth when they were being routinely challenged. THESE books haven’t been the most banned for many years. I know that because these are not actually the top 10 most banned books anymore. This picture of stacked books didn’t actually come from Banned Books Week.
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And I think it’s wrong in a kind of deliberately gross way that we need to talk about. And that’s important! But if you see this graphic (the original, without the red cross-out and note I’ve added) being shared around… it’s wrong. My genuine thanks to someone on my feed for giving me a reason to talk about something relevant and political that means a lot to me. Guess what? Most threatened books these days are not about rebellious white men! With one exception they’re books by and about LGBTQ people that challenge gender and sexual (hetero) norms.