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U.S. Naval Academy Pulls Nearly 400 Books From College Library

April 14, 2025April 17, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Gender Queer, Ibram X. Kendi, Jack Johnson, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Julianne Moore, Pete Hegseth, Robert P. Jones, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Naval Academy

Midshipmen, or just mid?

Censorship

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2024: The Year In Censorship

December 11, 2024December 16, 2024 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Elisa Albert, Gender Queer, Gregory Maguire, Jason Reynolds, Jodi Picoult, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Mayim Bialik, PEN America, Randa Jarrar, Salman Rushdie, Sarah J. Maas, Toni Morrison, Wicked

From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events

Banned books

Book Bans Keep Breaking Records

April 24, 2023April 25, 2023 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, American Library Association, Banned Books, Gender Queer, George M. Johnson, John Green, Maia Kobabe, Margaret Atwood, Moms for Liberty, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

A record-setting year for library challenges, according to the ALA

Bans

2022–The Year in Censorship

December 12, 2022December 14, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Duval County, Ellen Oh, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Moms for Liberty, Nya's Long Walk, The Bluest Eye, The Diary of Anne Frank, Toni Morrison

A shameful 12 months for book banners

Colorful wall of books on the shelfs at the rotunda in Stockholm Stadsbibliotek (Public Library), April 22, 2017. The building is from 1928 and the architect is Gunnar Asplund. (Photo: Stefan Holm/Shutterstock)

Book Challenges Reach Record Highs

April 4, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments American Library Association, Angie Thomas, Ashley Hope Perez, Dolly Parton, FReadom Fighters, Gender Queer, George M. Johnson, Imagination Library, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Maia Kebab, Toni Morrison

Library association urges people to unite against book bans

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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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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

A star-studded meditation on mortality is also very funny

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Perpendicular Lives Intersect in ‘Possible Love’

October 20, 2026October 26, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0

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‘The Knights of Guinevere’ Takes Us Into the Backrooms of Not-Quite-Disney

October 19, 2026October 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0

DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM

You Can See Everything, Except the Truth

October 18, 2026October 22, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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