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World's most hated book is pulled from a major Australian city's library shelves for the first time - and critics want it banned everywhere
3 months, 3 weeks ago

World's most hated book is pulled from a major Australian city's library shelves for the first time - and critics want it banned everywhere

Daily Mail  

EXCLUSIVE A controversial book which has been slammed worldwide for exposing children to 'gay porn' has been ripped from an Australian city's library shelves for the first time. Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe, is the most banned book in America, with critics claiming its graphic depictions of teenage sex are targeted at kids Maia Kobabe, a non-binary author from California …

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Book bans in the US are at an all-time high. Will we see a similar spike in Australia?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Book bans in the US are at an all-time high. Will we see a similar spike in Australia?

ABC  

On January 20, 2021, the young black poet Amanda Gorman stood upon the dais at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration to read her poem The Hill We Climb. Listen to ABC RN's Banned Books Photo shows Banned Books_02_0201 The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange looks at what is driving book bans worldwide, from China's crackdown on homoerotic danmei fiction to the controversy …

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Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer’ tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer’ tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year. “A few advocacy groups have made ‘Gender Queer’ a lightning rod,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. ”People are trying to shut down …

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Alarm as police search Massachusetts school for ‘Gender Queer’ book
1 year ago

Alarm as police search Massachusetts school for ‘Gender Queer’ book

The Independent  

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Barack Obama speaks against 'book ban' in USA: However, the list includes books that promote explicit sexual content targeted at children
1 year, 5 months ago

Barack Obama speaks against 'book ban' in USA: However, the list includes books that promote explicit sexual content targeted at children

Op India  

On 16th July, former US President Barack Obama came in support of the librarians against the banned books. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and… pic.twitter.com/txhCTfH3Gh — Barack Obama July 17, 2023 Criticising the call for bans on books, he said, “Today, some of the books that …

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Huntington Beach seeks to stop children from accessing library books the city deems obscene or pornographic
1 year, 6 months ago

Huntington Beach seeks to stop children from accessing library books the city deems obscene or pornographic

LA Times  

Should politicians be involved in determining what is appropriate for school-age children at public libraries? But after nearly six hours of contentious public comments, the panel voted 4 to 3 to support Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark’s agenda item seeking to make books deemed obscene and/or pornographic unavailable to children. Two community members who oppose Mayor Pro Tem …

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Huntington Beach will seek to stop children from accessing library books city deems obscene or pornographic
1 year, 6 months ago

Huntington Beach will seek to stop children from accessing library books city deems obscene or pornographic

LA Times  

Should politicians be involved in determining what is appropriate for school-aged children at public libraries? But after nearly six hours of contentious public comments, the panel voted 4-3 to support Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark’s agenda item seeking to make books deemed obscene and/or pornographic unavailable to children. Two community members who oppose Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van …

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Two Florida moms fight back against banned books
1 year, 7 months ago

Two Florida moms fight back against banned books

LA Times  

The tattoos on Jen Cousins’ arms speak to literacy and how books can take us on trips across strange and extraordinary universes: an owl for wisdom, a drawing from the novel “Wonder,” multicolored glasses from Harry Potter and a saying from one of her children: “The world is only what you shape it to be.” But as any Hogwarts wizard …

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Project Veritas Is Advancing The Anti-LGBTQ Agenda In Schools
1 year, 7 months ago

Project Veritas Is Advancing The Anti-LGBTQ Agenda In Schools

Huff Post  

At a recent Board of Education meeting in the town of Jericho, New York, an agitated mother took the mic to address the administrators and trustees seated at the dais. The videos were an escalation of the group’s prior attacks on two private schools: In September, Trinity School in Manhattan put an administrator on leave after an undercover clip of …

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‘Gender Queer’ tops library group’s list of challenged books
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Gender Queer’ tops library group’s list of challenged books

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — With Florida legislators barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar restrictions under consideration in other states, a report released Monday says books with LGBTQ+ themes remain the most likely targets of bans or attempted bans at public schools and libraries around the country. The American Library Association announced that Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir …

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School librarians vilified as the ‘arm of Satan’ in book-banning wars
1 year, 10 months ago

School librarians vilified as the ‘arm of Satan’ in book-banning wars

LA Times  

The Patmos Library in Jamestown, Mich., where at least two librarians have quit amid pressure and harassment from residents demanding the removal of books. Martha Hickson, a high school librarian in Annandale, N.J., endured similar stress and said she lost 12 pounds in one week after she was accused by a parent at a school board meeting of being a …

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How 'Gender Queer' Incited Republicans In A Michigan Town
1 year, 11 months ago

How 'Gender Queer' Incited Republicans In A Michigan Town

Huff Post  

The Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan, was Chavala Ymker’s refuge for years. Last year, residents of Jamestown, a township made up of nearly 10,000 people, voted to defund the public library following a push from conservatives to remove the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe from shelves. Conservatives’ claims about the library having books with LGBTQ themes picked up steam, …

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How ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ became America’s most banned book
2 years ago

How ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ became America’s most banned book

LA Times  

Maia Kobabe grew up in an idyll. Kobabe’s insightful and moving coming of age discovery of identifying as nonbinary is told in the 2019 graphic memoir “Gender Queer.” Two years after its publication, the narrative, notable for its startling honesty and explicit drawings, became the most banned book in America, a target of school boards, conservative candidates, preachers and parental …

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Conversion therapy and its impact on mental health among LGBTQIs
2 years, 2 months ago

Conversion therapy and its impact on mental health among LGBTQIs

Hindustan Times  

If we live in a world where conversion therapy exists, what does that tell us? She also recalled incidents of solitary confinement inside a cell at a mental health centre where she was subjected to conversion therapy. In that video, Anjana also mentioned that this whole episode of conversion therapy took a toll on her mental health. Now, for a …

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Column: I read ‘Gender Queer,’ the most banned book in America. And so should you
2 years, 2 months ago

Column: I read ‘Gender Queer,’ the most banned book in America. And so should you

LA Times  

It doesn’t take long to read the most banned book in America, an award-winning memoir in graphic novel form called “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe. “I can absolutely understand the desire of a parent to protect their child from sensitive material,” Kobabe told the Texas Tribune late last year when the book began causing conniption fits in that state. In …

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Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says
2 years, 3 months ago

Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. “We’re seeing that trend continue in 2022, the criticism of books with LGBTQ subject matter,” Caldwell-Jones says, adding that books about racism such as Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give” also are frequently challenged. A middle school librarian in …

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Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says
2 years, 3 months ago

Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says

LA Times  

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses in December 2021 with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City. “We’re seeing that trend continue in 2022, the criticism of books with LGBTQ subject matter,” Caldwell-Jones says, adding that books about racism such as Angie Thomas’ novel …

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Book banning: a Virginia Republican’s new scheme has a hidden agenda.
2 years, 4 months ago

Book banning: a Virginia Republican’s new scheme has a hidden agenda.

Slate  

At the end of August, in a courtroom in Virginia Beach, a judge will decide whether to put two books on trial for obscenity. “The sexual content,” Anderson’s petitions declare, “promote felonious sexual encounters when exposed to minors.” The books, he asserts, “go substantially beyond customary limits of candor,” “and accordingly have no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value …

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Emma Corrin opens up about gender identity and sexuality: ‘Gender just isn’t something that feels fixed’
2 years, 5 months ago

Emma Corrin opens up about gender identity and sexuality: ‘Gender just isn’t something that feels fixed’

The Independent  

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“What’s your pronoun?”
2 years, 5 months ago

“What’s your pronoun?”

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 26, 2022 18:00 IST It drizzled throughout the day, bringing down June temperatures and promising a pleasant night for the first time in an extremely hot month in New Delhi. As trans and Dalit rights activist Grace Banu sums it up, “Yes, we are celebrating Pride month, but what does it even mean for someone in rural …

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Pride Month: Looking for meaningful inclusion beyond pride flags and rainbow pastries
2 years, 6 months ago

Pride Month: Looking for meaningful inclusion beyond pride flags and rainbow pastries

The Hindu  

A nondescript bakery in a sleepy Juhu lane in Mumbai suddenly lit up with pride lights and flags on June 1, 2019. The answer is really not that complicated, any queer individual will tell you: spare us the pride flags, the rainbow pastries and a 20% discount on little cups and bow ties. Let’s talk support Instead, let’s talk money, …

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Book Banning And Threats Against Librarians Soared Over Past Year, Report Shows
2 years, 8 months ago

Book Banning And Threats Against Librarians Soared Over Past Year, Report Shows

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy. The two most challenged books on the ALA’s top 10 list have been in the news often: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a …

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Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021
2 years, 8 months ago

Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy. The two most challenged books on the ALA’s top 10 list have been in the news often: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man. …

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What to Do When Your Kid Is Reading a Book That Makes You Uncomfortable
2 years, 9 months ago

What to Do When Your Kid Is Reading a Book That Makes You Uncomfortable

Slate  

One of the books at the center of the newest wave of book censorship in America public schools and libraries is Gender Queer, a memoir by the nonbinary cartoonist Maia Kobabe. So many of the people who have started challenges against my book say in their opening statements, ‘I haven’t read the book, but …’ In many ways, it almost …

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