Maia Kobabe’s 'Gender Queer' topped the list of last year's most challenged books, which is again dominated by stories by and about LGBTQ+ persons and people of color, voices that ALA officials said “censors want to silence.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: Federal library funding hangs in the balance as the 2024 budget process ramps up; Arkansas passes a controversial bill aimed at restricting libraries; a Michigan prosecutor threatens to charge a local library director for refusing to pull Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer'... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir "Gender Queer" became the most banned book in American schools, drawing the Northern California artist and writer into the nation's cultural wars. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-21 11:00:19 UTC ]
On May 18, a judge found that there was probable cause that two books, 'Gender Queer' and 'Court of Mist and Fury', could be deemed obscene under an obscure state law, and ordered the authors and publishers to defend the books in court. In a statement, freedom to read advocates say such actions... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
A Virginia lawyer and state delegate has filed a restraining order against Barnes & Noble for carrying GENDER QUEER. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-05-19 11:23:55 UTC ]