{"id":11594,"date":"2022-08-18T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=11594"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:31:15","slug":"what-we-saw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/what-we-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; What We Saw"},"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-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 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\/What-we-saw.jpg\" alt=\"what we saw cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=what+we+saw&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Aaron+Hartzler%09Aaron+Hartzler+%7C%7C+Hartzler%2C+Aaron%09Hartzler%2C+Aaron+%7C%7C+Hartzler%2C+Aaron%2C+author.%09Hartzler%2C+Aaron%2C+author.&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/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>2022<\/h2>\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<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 18, 2022<\/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-11594","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11594","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=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11814,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11594\/revisions\/11814"}],"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=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}