Are these books banned state wide? Or banned in a single school district in the state? While we should be raising awareness of the banning of books by conservatives, I am confused by this graphic and how I can use it for actionable change.
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I personally think every Rupi Kaur book should be banned. Not because it's controversial, but just because they're horrid excuses for poetry.
I’d take this with a healthy dose of salt. For instance The State of Wyoming has no laws banning any books. Certain School Districts and Public libraries have guidance regarding books they see as controversial but there is no STATE law about them.
I’m sure other States are being simarily misrepresented.
Sure is land of the free in there
I am not for outright banning of books, but I am against mandatory reading of certain books for classes. There are some pretty sexually graphic scenes in a number of books not marketed as erotic that I believe have no place in the standard classroom or the elementary school library. A certian section at a public library, sure, but schools, no. It is like those backrooms at blockbuster.
Do you have any examples?
I think a classroom, where the reading is guided and purposeful can be a good setting for these kinds of topics.
Why would you think it is a good idea to ban sexual content from schools?
What books are banned in CA? It's my understanding that banning books is itself banned in CA.
congrats to mike curato for being the only man on this list
These Øs make it read like the subtitles to the intro for Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Making grey 0, black the highest and intense red the lowest above 0 is a weird palette choice
It's a shame to see Gender Queer on there. I read it for my university class on comic art and thought it was really interesting. I would probably say it's more of an adult book, but I think just about all the books I read for high school English were adult books.
The author is really cool too. When the covid lockdown happened my professor emailed them asking if there were any digital options for the book, since a lot of students relied on the local library or might have left their copies in their dorms. They sent my professor a pirated link and gave permission for us to use it.
I like how most of New York is red, except Long Island. Long Island isn't its own state (yet).
New England wins again
It's a little sad to see Mass on there, I gotta look up what got banned. I'm assuming it was in some deeply red school district as there's some surprisingly conservative areas of the state.
WTF is going on with NJ in that map??
This looks like a recommendation list for teenagers, kind of how we looked for CDs that had the "parent advisory" sticker.
I literally just took a screen shot so I could buy the lot.
Reading any ACOTAR (a court of mist and fury, listed above) is such an enormous waste of time though.
Like if you want to enjoy some smut go for it but it's really devoid of any merit besides being erotic.
Claiming you're reading when it's actually ACOTAR is like saying you're watching cinema when it's Backdoor Sluts 8.
You might be right technically but nobody would agree with you.
nice ! new books to read
California and New York banned more books than Mississippi.
In 2023 California banned banning books:
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201804972/california-gov-newsom-barring-book-bans-race-lgbtq
I couldn't find what books actually got banned in California. Some of those Cali districts are deep red though.
I’m pretty sure that Mississippi is deep red too.
Yep, I was just trying to see what exactly was banned in California and it turns out probably nothing now.
Well yeah, you don't have to ban many books when you've got a single digit literacy rate.
/s
This is how fascists virtue-signal
When I went to school they hung up posters telling us to read banned books. Now my state is book ban crazy. Apparently 2022 is very out of date.
Teachers don't want the books banned
What have they done to New Jersey?? New Jersey, I'm so sorry they like, whamjangled your entire shape!!
I guess I live in the ocean now?
I think I do as well! Maybe? It's really hard to tell with how squished and wiggly it is now!
I think they cut off the eastern part of PA and marked it as NJ. The negative white space looks like the path of the Delaware
Look how they massacred my boy
Why do ppl choose colors / shades that you can’t tell apart
I had the exact same thought. I think the map would work way better if states without ban had a significantly lighter shade of grey (or even white)
As is the ones with 1-10 bans stand out by far the most due to the red being so bright (would need to be a bit more desaturated like the others). And the worse offenders are harder to see against the dark grey.
Yeah. This feels like someone looked at the uncolored map and decided it wasn't depressing enough, and switched to gray for states without bans.
To add, there are palettes available online that work well even for most colorblind people