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Attacks on Student Access to Books Ramping up Nationwide

November 18, 2021December 1, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, Ashley Hope Perez, Gabrielle Union, George M. Johnson, Last Night At The Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, PEN America, Separate Is Never Equal

An unprecedented wave of censorship attempts

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It’s Not Porn

November 17, 2021November 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Gender Queer, Greg Abbott, Jack of Hearts, Judy Blume, Maya Kobabe

Texas governor Greg Abbott’s actions are all about politics, not protecting kids

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The Texas Taliban Lowers the Boom

November 4, 2021November 9, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Greg Abbott, Matt Krause, Michael Crichton, Texas, Texas Library Association, Texas State Teachers' Association, Toni Morrison

High-ranking state government officials seek vast censorship powers through intimidation of schools

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We’re all living in ‘Fahrenheit 451’

October 27, 2021November 6, 2021 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Censorship, Cornel West, Fahrenheit 451, Library of America, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King

The Library of America Ray Bradbury edition is prophecy, not past

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Sally Rooney Versus the State of Israel

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Dan Friedman 1 Comment Beautiful World Where Are You, Ireland, Israel, Modan, Sally Rooney

‘The first great millennial novelist’ refuses to allow Israeli publisher to put out her new book

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Kneel Before Fauci

October 12, 2021October 20, 2021 Matt Brown 3 Comments Disney, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Fauci

Disney+ lionizes the good doctor in a ludicrous hagiography

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The Cancellation of Plum Creek

September 29, 2021October 11, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments A.S. King, Ask The Passengers, Concordia University, Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer, Plum Creek Literacy Festival, Varian Johnson

Nebraska Literary Festival Implodes As Authors Battle Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

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Bonfire of the Canadians

September 20, 2021September 28, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Asterix, book burning, Canada, Catholic Church, First Nations, Giller Prize, Justin Trudeau

On Election Day, racist old Asterix comics burn

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Classrooms Gone Wild

September 20, 2021September 23, 2021 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Forget the Alamo, Ibram X. Kendi, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Leander ISD, Tiffany Jewell

The push to control what your kids read and write is intensifying nationwide

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‘Turning Point’ Brings Home the Horror and Tragedy of 9/11

September 10, 2021September 15, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Osama bin Laden, Turning Point, War on Terror

The ‘War On Terror’ was a failure

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Parents, Don’t Opt Out

September 1, 2021September 6, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments book banning, Facebook, Jandy Nelson, Jason Reynolds, Laurie Halse Anderson

Why would you restrict what your children read in school?

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Leander ISD Pulls More Books From Curriculum

August 9, 2021September 15, 2021 Sharyn Vane 2 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Jacqueline Woodson, Leander ISD, Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards, PEN America, Red at the Bone

Onslaught against “challenging” literature continues in Central Texas

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Why Did Stacey Abrams Get an Emmy Nomination?

July 19, 2021July 21, 2021 William Schwartz 0 Comments Anthony Anderson, Black-ish, Central Park, Emmy, Joe Biden, Seth MacFarlane, Stacey Abrams, Stanley Tucci, Titus Burgess, Tracee Ellis Ross, While Justice Sleeps

A multi-media push to the top of the political pile

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ABA Apologizes for ‘Anti-Trans’ Title

July 19, 2021July 21, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments ABA, Abigail Shrier, American Bookseller's Association, Blackout, Candace Owens, Irreversible Damage

But what about an apology for the apology?

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The SCBWI Tries To Regroup

July 14, 2021August 4, 2021 Sharyn Vane 2 Comments April Powers, Razan Abdin-Adnani, SCBWI, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators goes super-bureaucratic to battle charges of antisemitism and Islamophobia

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