This week: The right-wing Christian movement to ban some books from libraries is growing, with one school district in Texas pulling all versions of The Bible and the graphic novel version of The Diary of Anne Frank. So I talk with Laney Hawes, a parent at that school district, about how that movement is affecting her district.
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Laney's tweet: https://twitter.com/LaneyHawes/status/1559569991380393996
https://www.jta.org/2022/08/16/united-states/texas-school-district-orders-librarians-to-remove-a-version-of-anne-franks-diary-from-shelves
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Keller-ISD-Texas-book-ban-17377932.php
Nina Jankowicz on harassment online: https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-a-woman-online-surviving-abuse-and-harassment-and-how-to-fight-back/9781350267572
https://lithub.com/how-the-threat-of-abuse-silences-women-online/
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CKr2c-T1KqBxpyfF8P7FTmUo0tReFqCWecbthexXQBc/edit?usp=sharing
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