Magenta transgender book5/30/2023 This book is in the Curriculum Resource Centre library. In honor of this year’s banned book week, we are highlighting a few books in our collection that have been frequently or recently challenged or banned in communities across North America Banned Books Week takes place in the last week of September every year, this year’s theme is “Books Unite Us. The event is now organized by a national alliance, including the American Library Association, and holds to tradition by drawing attention to the number of books that are banned and challenged every year, and to directly oppose the censorship of books. (Read more about the history of Banned Books Week here). Banned Books Week calls attention to those books that have been challenged and seeks to reaffirm our commitments against censorship and towards intellectual freedom.īanned Books Week was launched in the USA in 1982 The event was created to promote conversation around banned books in a time when challenges and protests against books were becoming more prevalent. In recent years, most challenged books contain LGBTQ+ themes, demonstrating a clear pattern in what type of content is targeted. Post prepared by Rebekah Glendinning & Sandy Iversonīanning books may seem like a thing of the past, but every year many books are challenged based on their content or language.
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