grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that those
how did this woman get to be this way as the question that s a challenge to society. how does someone get to be tha way? at the end, when the question, the story, the phrase this repeated, it was not a story t pass on. well how did we avoid passin this on? our thanks to dr. - eddy by the way, who helped me start this whole thing it was a conversation with eddie that was part of the genesis of the velshi banned book club. thanks daddy and dr. amani perry, both the princeto university 11 of us and make new year resolutions this time a year if you are supposed to rea more, we ve got you covered. we re looking forward to man more minutes of the velshi banned book club in 2023 more important literar analysis, more thought-provoking conversation with authors, and more resistance against book bannin as a whole in order to do that, we need your help. our velshi banned book clu members, tell us which band or targeted book you like t discuss and why. we re all ears email the show at my story a