Book Banning in America
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Well, this is pretty dystopian.
https://www.kmuw.org/education/2021-11-09/goddard-school-district-orders-29-books-removed-from-cdystopia.This is one example of what's going in in Conservative America. Because these books make specific people "uncomfortable" they are being pulled from circulation.
This particular story points out that the actual policy of the school district is that while books are being reviewed, they're not supposed to be removed from use. So they're violating their own policy.
What do these books have in common? Oh, gosh, let's try to work that out.
“#MurderTrending” by Gretchen McNeil
“All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson
“Anger is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro
“Black Girl Unlimited” by Echo Brown
“Blended” by Sharon M. Draper
“Crank” by Ellen Hopkins
“Fences” by August Wilson
“Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel
“Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe
“Heavy” by Kiese Laymon
“Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison
“Lily and Dunkin” by Donna Gephart
“Living Dead Girl” by Elizabeth Scott
“Monday’s Not Coming” by Tiffany D. Jackson
“Out of Darkness” by Ashley Hope Perez
“Satanism” by Tamara L. Roleff
“The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives” by Dashka Slater
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” by Heidi W. Durrow
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel” adapted by Renee Nault
“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood
“They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bertoletti
“This Book is Gay” by James Dawson
“This One Summer” (graphic novel) by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
“Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard” by Alex Bertie