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How Parents, Students, and Others Are Fighting the Surge of Book Bans

Many journalists, including myself, have recently reported on the increasing number of attempts to ban children’s and young adult books with LGBTQ characters or ones with other marginalized identities. In this column, however, I want to focus not on the bans themselves, but on the ways people have mobilized to stop them—and to ensure that students continue having access to books that reflect their identities and experiences and those of our diverse world.

New LGBTQ-inclusive Kids' Books - February 2022

4 New LGBTQ Kids’ Books Out Today

The LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books of 2022 are just getting started—here are four being published today, two picture books and two middle-grade titles! Read on for reviews.

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Tennessee School Board Bans Pulitzer Prize-Winning Holocaust Novel from Curriculum

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is deeply ironic, then, that news broke this week of a Tennessee school board removing a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum—one of many recent attempts across the U.S. to ban or restrict books about marginalized groups.

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Queer-Inclusive Books Win Big at Youth Media Awards

A children’s book with a transgender protagonist and a transgender author earned a Newbery Honor for the first time ever, and other queer-inclusive children’s and young adult books—and their queer authors—also won big at this year’s American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards.

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Fighting Back Against the Attacks on Diverse and Inclusive Books

Preschooler Heather is no stranger to opposition. Lesléa Newman’s 1989 Heather Has Two Mommies, the first picture book to depict happily coupled same-sex parents and their child, faced opprobrium from conservatives since shortly after it was published. Now, it is one of a record number of books for children and teens, largely about people with marginalized identities, that are under attack across the country.

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