You Can’t Read That!
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning. YCRT! features news and opinion roundups, personal observations, and reviews.
Baghdad Bob & Other Hot takes
Lately, I’ve been keeping an eye on the Great Awakening message board. Not because I want to read that shit, but because I suspect there’s a QAnon angle behind ongoing culture war attacks on books, teachers, and librarians, which I try to stay abreast of in my You Can’t Read That! banned book posts.
The Cruelty Is the Point
Stay fresh, cheese bags!
You Can’t Read That!
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning, featuring news and opinion roundups, personal observations, and reviews.
Peer Pressure?
At some point, I’ll have to confess in one of my banned book posts that I’m not wholly on the lefty side of things. They’ll probably kick me off Daily Kos.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: This Book is Gay
“This Book Is Gay” is one of a number of young adult books targeted by right-wing culture warriors. They view it, along with other LGBTQ-themed books, as insidious pro-gay propaganda designed to lure girls and boys into deviant sex and transgenderism. This book, in particular, billed as an “instruction manual” for LGBTQ youth (see the quote from the publisher’s blurb, above), is firmly in their crosshairs.
Calvinball
More and more, I see the pronoun people, like some members of the LGBTQI community, as participants in a giant game of Calvinball, scrambling to keep up with changing rules and shifting goalposts.
You Can’t Read That!
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning, featuring news and opinion roundups, personal observations, and reviews.