{"id":11452,"date":"2022-08-08T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=11452"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:20:44","slug":"out-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/out-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2023 &#8211; Out of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2023\/author\/\">2023 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2023\/title\/\">2023 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2022\/08\/out-of-darkness.jpg\" alt=\"out of darkness cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1869601~S12\">Held at Marshall University (E-Book).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p>Banned and challenged for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.<\/p>\n<p>The parents of a McKinney Independent School District (TX) student filed requests for the reconsideration of 280 titles they believed to be obscene owing to their inclusion on a target list compiled by state representative Matt Krause. When state representative Jared Patterson publicly advocated for the books\u2019 removal, school superintendent Rick McDaniel responded that, \u201cthe school library book debate has been largely fueled by political agendas, sensationalism, and exaggeration.\u201d McKinney mayor George Fuller echoed McDaniel\u2019s sentiments and referred to the book banning efforts as \u201cpartisan pandering.\u201d All 280 titles were retained in district libraries.<\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous books were banned and\/or challenged in the Leander (TX) Independent School District (ISD) high schools following a raucous board meeting where a woman dropped a dildo on the table in front of school board members. The challenged books were used in non-mandatory, student-led book clubs. District leaders say the titles were selected to encourage independent reading by including a variety of topics, voices, and cultures. Some parents complained that the books were not classic literature. Others complained that books contained &#8220;gender fluidity&#8221; themes and\/or were &#8220;anti-Christian.&#8221;  One parent stated that while she had no problem with a parent keeping their child from reading a particular book, but removing options from the reading lists were indefensible, as then \u201cthey are trying to take the choice away from my child.\u201d  A Citizen\u2019s Curriculum Advisory Committee (CCAC) was tasked with vetting all 140 student-choice book club selections. The 70 member CCAC is made up of parents, teachers, principals, coaches , and librarians.  So far the CCAC has removed <strong>Kiss Number 8<\/strong> by Colleen AF Venable, <strong>Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me<\/strong> by Mariko Tamaki, <strong>Shirley Jackson\u2019s The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation<\/strong> by Miles Hyman, <strong>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale: The Graphic Novel<\/strong> by Margaret Atwood, <strong>V for Vendetta<\/strong> by Alan Moore, <strong>Y:The Last Man: Book One<\/strong> by Brian K.Vaughan. The CCAC has suspended pending further review <strong>In the Dream House<\/strong> by Carmen Maria Machado, <strong>None of the Above<\/strong> by I.W. Gregorio, <strong>Red at the Bone<\/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson, <strong>Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy<\/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson, <strong>Out of Darkness<\/strong> by Ashley Hope P\u00e9rez, <strong>The Nowhere Girls<\/strong> by Amy Reed, <strong>How I Resist<\/strong> by Maureen Johnson, editor, <strong>I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter<\/strong> by Erika S\u00e1nchez, <strong>What We Saw<\/strong> by Aaron Hartzler, <strong>My Friend Dahmer<\/strong> by Derf Backderf, and <strong>Speak:The Graphic Novel<\/strong> by Laurie Halse Anderson. Virtually all of the banned titles focus on characters or have authors who are women; Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) themes. Twenty of the banned\/challenged authors sent an open letter to the Leander school board members which said in part \u201cWe believe in the capacity of these and all books to expand the reader\u2019s frame of reference\u2014challenging them to confront new ideas and allowing them to explore other perspectives. We are sending this letter to you today not simply to stand up for our own books, but to stand against censorship in our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A parent in Austin\u2019s Lake Travis (TX) Independent School District read a racy excerpt from the title about \u201ccornholing,\u201d a euphemism for anal sex. The books were pulled from the Hudson Bend and Bee Cave middle schools for review. Status unknown.<\/p>\n<p>A parent affiliated with Utah Parents United complained to the Washington County (UT) School District about profanity and sexual content in the book. The review committee was evenly split as to whether to retain or withdraw it. The superintendent cast the deciding vote to remove the book because it made him feel \u201cdepressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In some of the other places across the United States where the book was challenged, <strong>Out of Darkness<\/strong> was:<br \/>\n\u2022 Retained at Orange County (NC) School District<br \/>\n\u2022 Retained at the North Kansas City (MO) Schools<br \/>\n\u2022 Retained at Lindbergh (MO) Schools<br \/>\n\u2022 Banned, then restored, at the Eisenhower (KS) Middle School<br \/>\n\u2022 Banned at the Canyons (UT) School District<br \/>\n\u2022 Banned at the Katy (TX) Independent School District<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 22, 2023<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11452\/revisions\/13891"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}