moral panic about critical race theory. of course, it does not stop there. now we are seeing a very familiar kind of conservative wave of suppression, cloaked in concerned about the children. this is happening all across the country by that is not going unchecked. texas governor greg abbott last year ordered education officials to develop statewide standards to prevent the presence of pornography and obscene content in texas public schools, including libraries. some texas districts have taken this directive and used it as license to remove all sorts of books, especially those focused on lgbtq+ topics, racism and even sex education. the cranberry independent school district, outside fort worth, put together a list of more than 100 bucks to consider removing from libraries. this is a list including titles like being jazz, my life as a transgender teen, say 610, and separate but never equal, soviet mendes and her family's fight for desegregation. they have removed five novels