TheVoiceOfJoyce Conservative States ban books. They roll out lists of books they’ve never read and can’t spell the authors names or book titles. If School Boards and Librarians would request that all petitions had the current spelling for Book Titles and Authors, you would decrease the number of books banned! Don’t let anyone stifle your child’s curiosity, fight back against bans in Texas, Florida, Missouri and Utah.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/us-book-bans-streak-of-extremism

Recent examples of that have been seen starkly in Missouri and Utah, both of which have Republican legislatures.

Between August and November Missouri banned nearly 300 books in at least 11 school districts, according to Pen America.

The restrictions came after Missouri passed a new law, SB 775, which banned providing “explicit sexual material” to elementary or secondary school students, including by assigning certain texts as homework or loaning them out of libraries. The legislation saw school districts remove works about Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; visual depictions of Shakespeare’s works; and Maus, the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, which was banned from some schools in Tennessee in January 2022.

As elsewhere, books which reference or are written by LGBTQ+ people or non-white people were targeted in Missouri, and in December the state’s ACLU filed a lawsuit against one school district after it removed the novel Cats vs Robots #1: This is War by Lewis Peterson and Margaret Stohl, a book about a space war between cats and robots which briefly references non-binary gender identity, from some school libraries.

“Across the state, from school boards to lawmakers and other officials, we have seen a coordinated effort by the government to censor books in both school and public libraries, especially those authored by and featuring the perspectives of people and communities of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized groups,” Gillian Wilcox, deputy director for litigation at the ACLU of Missouri, said in a statement.

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