It’s Banned Books Week!
In 2021, 729 book challenges were reported to the American Library Association, naming 1597 individual books. That’s a huge spike up from 2019′s 377 challenges. Nearly double in two years.
This continues a worrying upward trend in book challenges in recent years, and many of these titles have actually been removed from library or classroom collections in parts of the US. It feels like every day I’m hearing news of a new challenge or removal somewhere, or an attempt to codify those removals into law. Libraries who stand their ground by refusing to remove materials have seen their funding slashed, librarians and teachers have lost their jobs and been harassed, even threatened.
But it’s not just libraries. Proponents of book banning are even trying to make it illegal to publish or sell books they don’t agree with.
So now, more than ever, its important to stand against these attempts at censorship. Keep aware of goings on in your area. Speak at city council meetings, run for your local school or library board, donate to your local public library, write to your local representative. Or see what else the ALA recommends to get involved.
Anyway, here are the Top 10 Challenged Books of 2021:
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
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Get dressed. Remember I want to mow the lawn. Get dressed differently. Eat breakfast. Lay on couch.
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kinda emotionally breaks me that in dean’s dream world, his mom is alive and his dad isn’t.
also devastating that he can’t even say i love you to his mom. she says “i love you” and he says “me too” . when was the last time someone said that to him. has someone Ever said that to him? the last time someone told dean they loved him, was he 4 years old. fuck .
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Empires Headcannon that the Goblands are overpopulated.
That’s why all their houses are stacked on top of each other and buildings squeezed wherever possible. The cave is running out of space to house the goblin population.
So now there’s Gobville, a newly built (not cramped) goblin village that’s on the surface! Goblin Expansion means more land to house more goblins!
(It’s better to get sunburnt or wear a big hat then trying to build houses in the deep dark)
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as if all the leaves dying off our trees and absolutely covering 1/3 of the yard wasnt enough, the pollen is starting to form in the branches and will eventually add another layer jklhsfjkhslljkdhfg
there's gonna be a carpet of organic material on one side of the yard
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you know what I'm fucking poor, I'm going to see how difficult it is to set up tips on tumblr. I still don't know if I'm going to be declared eleigible for disability SSI and I cannot fucking believe that I should have been qualified this entire fucking time nad I WOULD HAVE BEEN QUALIFIED SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN WITHOUT INTERUPTION IF MY DAD HADN't DIED WHEN WE WERE KIDS AND THEN SOMEONE IN THE SYSTEM FUCKED EVERYTHING UP WHEN WE TURNED EIGHTEEN BECUSE ALLLLLLLL THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO WAS TAKE US OFF SURVIVOR'S BENEFITS BUT NOOOOO THEY TOOK US OFF THE FUCKING DISABILITY LIST TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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mowing the lawn after like a month of not mowing it, is death
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Portland Poolhouse
An illustration of a sizable Tuscan backyard pool house made of concrete in the shape of a kidney
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