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.
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.
An Ignorant S.O.B.
Such are the joys of trying to keep up with the news.
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.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
As to the challenges and bans taking place around the country as organized groups of reactionaries pretending to be parents disrupt school board meetings over “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” claiming it’s pornographic: no, it is anything but.