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This Week in Book Challenges: January 8, 2025 [2]
- By Philomena Polefrone [3]
- In Alabama, the Mobile library system removed [4] oft-banned Let’s Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan.
- Out of California, new reporting from the LA Times shows [5] the chilling effect is in full effect, impacting libraries and book sales nationwide.
- In Colorado, the ACLU filed a complaint [6] against Elizabeth School District’s book removal practices.
- In Florida, the Governor agreed to pay up to $15.6 million [7] for technology to make book banning easier.
- In Michigan, some Manchester parents are targeting The Hate U Give [8] by Angie Thomas.
- In Missouri, the Gardner Edgerton school board listened to one parent’s transphobic rant and overruled a 10-1 committee recommendation [9], banning Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephardt.
- In New Mexico, a bill banning book bans has been introduced by Rep. Kathleen Cates [10], whose similar bill nearly passed last year.
- In Tennessee, the “book banning pastor” came to Murfreesboro [11] to demand a book ban (he’s not even from Tennessee).
- In Texas, the seven-member Conroe Independent School District (ISD) board has nicknamed itself “Mama Bears” [12] in a nod to their Moms for Liberty sympathies, the Denton City Council put a possible book banner [13] on the library board, and Fort Bend ISD added 20 books to a “do not order” list [14].
- In Vermont, Addison County is seeing possible book challenges [15] targeting gender-inclusive kids books.
- In Virginia, the Warren County Board of Supervisors ignored the pleas of over 100 residents to vote in favor of a hostile takeover [16] of the Samuels Public Library; the reason is, you guessed it: LGBTQ+ books.
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