A majority of the bans feature books written by authors who are people of color, LGBTQ+, Black and Indigenous, and feature characters from marginalized groups.Īnd now, state Republicans lawmakers are joining the movement, spurred by ultra-conservative groups, to ban books from public schools and libraries. In the past nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at a rapid rate. Johnson is a young adult non-fiction memoir of Johnson, consisting of essays about his life growing up as a queer Black man in New Jersey and Virginia. “Lawn Boy,” Jonathan Evison’s semi-autobiographical coming of age novel about a Mexican American boy’s experience, touching on issues of race, class and sexuality.“Gender Queer: A Memoir,” a comic book by Maia Kobabe about Kobabe’s path to gender-identity as nonbinary and queer.Two school districts in Iowa have banned four books, with two of those books under current review.
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