iff Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Source: https://pen.org/press-release/good-news-that-wentzville-school-district-returns-200-temporarily-banned-books-to-shelves-but-pen-america-raises-concern-that-17-removed-books-are-still-inaccessible/ The full list Quote The Handmaid’s Tale – The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault (illustrator) Epileptic by David B. Pablo: Art Masters Series by Julie Birmant, Clement Oubrerie (illustrator) Bone Parish: Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf and Alex Guimaraes (illustrators) Bone Parish: Volume 2 by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf and Alex Guimaraes (illustrators) Bone Parish: Volume 3 by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf and Alex Guimaraes (illustrators) How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris, Michael Emberley (illustrator) The Cape by Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella, Zach Howard (illustrator) Home Body by Rupi Kaur Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani Strips (illustrator) Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk Last Man: the Royal Cup by Bastien Vivès, Michaël Sanlaville, and Balak Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, Albert Monteys (illustrator) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thylacine Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Okay, so I guess right wing conservative Christians find asexuality offensive now... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blunose2772 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Just now, thylacine said: Okay, so I guess right wing conservative Christians find asexuality offensive now... As someone who was born and raised in the Midwest of the US they find everything that isn't remonstrant of a Norman Rockwell painting offensive 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 🙃 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fraggle Underdark Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 In a real way, getting your book banned in places like that means you're doing something right 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EvaLynn Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 You can't buy publicity like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sister Mercurial Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Makes absolutely no sense. Why would any school district think a book about not having sex could corrupt young people? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Salmakia Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Looking at the other books on this list, my guess is that it's because it's (a) a graphic novel that (b) has some content about sex in some way shape or form. I'm surprised that Fun Home isn't on this list. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Salmakia Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Oh wait never mind haha thanks Google: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/education/parents-weigh-in-wentzville-book-ban/63-2b5f6ebb-4b8d-4e18-abc1-d90323fbcaf3#:~:text=Parents weigh in on Wentzville,sexuality was too "graphic."&text=The Wentzville School Board voted,the district's shelves this week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moeir Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 :sigh: One step forward, two thousand steps back.... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blue eyes white dragon Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, thylacine said: Okay, so I guess right wing conservative Christians find asexuality offensive now... They always have.... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philip027 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 This reminds me of when I'd encounter AVEN being blocked from various school computers seemingly on the basis that it had "sex" in its name. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TormentDubz Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 hours ago, thylacine said: Okay, so I guess right wing conservative Christians find asexuality offensive now... As a Christian from Missouri who considers myself “conservative/right” yeah this is trash and I ain’t proud of my state 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TormentDubz Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 And yeah I’m asexual 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Abhorred Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 "To PEN America’s knowledge, none of these books were challenged by parents or other community members, but were removed by school administrators out of fear that they might run afoul of SB 775, which established criminal penalties for providing “explicit sexual material” to students (in the context of a broader bill). The law has broad exceptions for materials of artistic and anthropological significance. Works of literature and educational texts, identified through established, standard material selection processes, may and should remain in schools and school libraries." Has anybody here read that book "how to be ace"? Of the rest of the books I only know the first on the list. I haven't read it, I had seen the tv series, but I imagine it will have scenes that are considered inappropriate for minors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Still Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 But cancel culture bad, amirite? edit: lol, the tradition of chuds somehow getting triggered by Slaughterhouse-Five lives on 😂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thylacine Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 19 hours ago, Sister Mercurial said: Makes absolutely no sense. Why would any school district think a book about not having sex could corrupt young people? I know, huh... ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Tourmaline Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 i guess i feel more like a rebel now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AstrophelDragon Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I think my New Years' resolution should be to read some banned books like these. See if they corrupt my impressionable high school mind Like seriously I have the internet. I could probably find way worse things if I wanted to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Next Gen Paladin Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Aw great. That's my northern neighbor. Next thing I know Arkansas will say "hold my beer" and do something even crazier. The Bible Belt is an interesting place, y'all. And by "interesting" I mean that in many different ways. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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