I'm doing banned book readings

[vercetti2021]

My girlfriend has a co-op that helps local artists from painting to music get a good start and recognition. She normally hosts events once a month with food trucks, events and such. I asked her if I could do a story telling hour with books that are being banned by the state government (Texas). She loved the idea and said October's event I can do so.

If anyone has any great book suggestions I'd love to hear them

[Jade Fox]

1. Fabulous idea!

[LAS14]

2. You need to indentify the books that are banned in your locality. Post them...

... here, and people can make recommendations.

[WVGal1963]

3. Yes!!!

Fellows DU’ers…..please share as many titles as you can - - this is just GREAT!!!! Love, love, love this concept. While I follow all the stories about banned books, specific titles would be amazing because I forget them from story to story to story about which state is banning what books.

[vercetti2021]

9. Even funnier

Me a trans woman is reading banned books. I'm the worst enemy of the right

[MLAA]

4. Excellent idea.

[SheltieLover]

5. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

Harry Potter?

[vercetti2021]

6. Sorry but no

JK being a transphobic person. I can't in good consciousness read her material anymore.

[royable]

7. How about interspersing sections of banned texts with passages from the Bible

with matching subject matter?

[vercetti2021]

8. Interesting!

I'll have to see how to do that

[royable]

11. I google-searched for "passages in the bible with content similar to banned books"

This came up, give it a look
“Ban the Bible, too” – The Campus
https://alleghenycampus.com/21041/opinion/ban-the-bible-too/

And another:
Bible’s Rape, Incest Passages Read at Book Banning Senate Hearing
https://iowastartingline.com/2022/02/12/bibles-rape-incest-passages-read-at-book-banning-senate-hearing/

And even if you don't go with that idea, you might find this list of the top banned books by year to be of use.
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

Good luck, and have fun!

[FSogol]

10. How about: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

Here's the top 100 most banned books from 2010 to 2019

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

[Chellee]

12. Life Is So Good by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman

I have just started reading it. It's amazing.

https://www.insider.com/texas-george-dawson-middle-school-deemed-biography-not-appropriate-2022-8

A Texas school district has deemed parts of a Black author's biography "not appropriate" for middle school students, even though one of the middle schools in the district is named after the writer.

"That's hurtful," Irvin told WFAA of the book review. "You take away the bad and the ugly, and you only talk about the good, that doesn't add up."

"Black history is American history," Irvin continued. "You can't have one without the other. I can't go to your history and tell you, 'hey x that out of your life, that didn't happen.'"

Irvin told WFAA he suspects the first chapter, which details Dawson's friend's lynching after he was wrongly accused of raping a white woman, could be the problem.

If George Dawson could witness that horror when he was 10, I think the children of Southlake can learn about it when they're 12.