In 10 hours of testimony to the House Education Committee, more than 130 people testified against it. The vast majority of public testimony opposes House Bill 105. Mike Dunleavy joined the bandwagon this legislative session, introducing bills seeking to restrict the rights of transgender students, and disallow the use of gender-neutral pronouns, among other measures. House of Representatives was over if it would result in even more book bans. Much of the debate on the recent passing of a parental rights bill in the U.S. Already, classics like “ Beloved” by Toni Morrison and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou were removed or challenged by school boards in Anchorage, the Mat-Su, Homer and Nome.īack in the days before social media and mass dissemination of lies that pass for information, parents sought to ban one book at a time about our gender-nonconforming fellow human beings.
Since 2021, thousands of books featuring queer, transgender and gender fluid aka LGBTQ+ themes pulled from school library shelves from Florida to Alaska, cheered on by shout fests at local school board meetings. This is the week the American Library Association brings to our attention the value of libraries “in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.”Īt the same time, the fear of one group of parents to accept the reality that humanity is much more diverse than straight and white is resulting in an unprecedented explosion in banned books.
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