Amanda Gorman, Art Spiegelman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and other authors on book bans
Jacqueline Woodson is the author of nearly 40 chapter books, picture books, and novels for young and adult readers. Her 2018 illustrated exploration of diversity in schools,Brown Girl Dreaming“No one has ever been able to take away our folks’ joy. I find talking about the ridiculousness of the bans sometimes brings laughter, in the ways our people have learned to laugh to keep from crying. We do what we need to do: we resist, we inform, we amplify, we write.
that asked readers to rethink the origins of the American Revolution and Black people’s contributions to U.S. history. Since its publication in book form in 2021,“Finding joy in the midst of these book bans is easy because, although the proliferation of these bans reflects a dangerous suppressive and antidemocratic surge across our country, communities and particularly young people are fighting back, are demanding a freedom to read and learn and be uncomfortable.
“I have never read a book that I was not supposed to. My parents didn’t place any restrictions on my reading, and I believe that the experience of not understanding something is just another kind of learning. If I believed that there were books that someone ‘wasn’t supposed to read,’ I would be a fundamentally different person.”Art Spiegelman is a renowned comic artist.
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