![]() ![]() The two described themselves as "joyful warriors." Their aim: to play hardball, with a smile. "But it's not intended to titillate it's intended to provide a window into one person's experience, not knowing their gender identity and needing to explore that." "It is a graphic novel, so certainly it's more in-your-face," said Caldwell-Stone. Race, controversial aspects of history, vulgarity and violence may be red flags found in a number of books already challenged or banned, but sex and gender are now overwhelmingly the subject matter being attacked, with such books as Juno Dawson's "This Book Is Gay" and Jonathan Evison's "Lawn Boy" targeted – ammunition for Florida's Republican Governor Ron Desantis' war on "woke," which he described in a speech on March 8: "Parents, in their sending kids to school, shouldn't have to worry about this garbage being in the schools."īooks like Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer," an intensely polarizing exploration of gender identity, are at the center of the book battles. On Monday, the American Library Association will announce the Most Challenged Books of 2022. ![]()
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