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Wake Now In The Fire by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo In 2013, Chicago Public Schools banned Persepolis. It became clear pretty quickly that many within the district had no idea why the graphic novel became a target, nor why it was removed. This graphic novel tells the story of the book’s removal from CPS, […]
There are currently freedom to read bills under consideration in three states: Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. An additional one is currently on deck in Virginia as well, though the details of that are worthy of a little more discernment. These are in addition to the 13 similar bills that have already passed. The titles […]
To determine which posts were the most “popular,” I pulled the top 750 posts on Book Riot for the year and teased out those that were categorized as literary activism. It was far more interesting to examine these in conversation with one another than in isolation, so rather than simply listing the top posts, they […]
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you can take to end book […]
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you can take to end book […]
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
February 12, 2025, 1:29pm If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book people who are working to fight censorship and protect access to literature across the country. Recently, AABB organized a successful letter-writing […]
Your second set of tools comes in the form of the acronym TOADSRIG. Again, it is not going to fully cover every critical reading tool at your disposal but it is pretty memorable. So what is TOADSRIG? It’s: Tone–how the writing sounds and/or intends to sound (persuasive, argumentative, cheerful, serious, and so forth) Organization–how the […]
