The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.
#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Thinking of the Children: #BookBans, #Censorship, and #Literature for Young People
For this online conference, organizers invite contributions from #scholars at all career stages, from #librarians and #archivists, and from #teachers at all levels, to consider #BookBanning and censorship of literature for young people, past and present.
#YALit #YA #Resist #CFP #Books
The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles.
By Brittany Allen
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Summary: Photograph shows a crowd wearing heavy coats, with their backs to a pile of books burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin; they are facing a man waving an American flag above the crowd just right of center near the Sauk County Courthouse, during winter or early spring 1918." - Library of Congress](/proxy/post_attachment/771926/0a0c56881a.jpg "\"A pile of German textbooks, from the Baraboo High School, burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin, during an anti-German demonstration]
Summary: Photograph shows a crowd wearing heavy coats, with their backs to a pile of books burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin; they are facing a man waving an American flag above the crowd just right of center near the Sauk County Courthouse, during winter or early spring 1918.\" - Library of Congress")