{"id":12240,"date":"2022-09-08T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=12240"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:43:39","slug":"jane-against-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/jane-against-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights"},"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\/09\/jane-against-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"jane against the world cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/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>A Facebook post by the Campbell County (WY) Public Library System highlighting the certain titles held by the library for Pride Month led to controversy in the community. The post read  \u201cJune is Pride Month and Rainbow Book Month. For this month&#8217;s Teen Room blog, Sarah writes about a few titles you can check out from your library that will connect you with the LGBTQIA+ collection at CCPL.\u201d  The titles linked in the post were <strong>A Quick &amp; Easy Guide to Queer &amp; Trans Identities<\/strong> by Mady G., <strong>Let\u2019s Talk About Love<\/strong> by Claire Kann, <strong>None of the Above<\/strong> by I. W. Gregorio, <strong>Carry On<\/strong> by Rainbow Rowell, <strong>All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages<\/strong> by Saundra Mitchell, <strong>I\u2019m a Wild Seed<\/strong> by Sharon Lee De La Cruz, and <strong>Music from Another World<\/strong> by Robin Talley. At the July 7th Campbell County Commissioners meeting, community members voiced their objections led by County Commissioner Del Shelstad who stated \u201cThis is exactly the type of thing that I think is harmful in our community. I\u2019m not asking you to have a straight Pride Month, I\u2019m just asking you not to have a gay Pride month.\u201d  The library executive director stated that the &#8220;spotlight during Pride Month in June was to highlight diverse perspectives, the same way they would highlight books for seniors, books in Spanish, or books for Christmas.&#8221;  Some residents suggested minors should not have access to any lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/ questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) books. Some proposed removing all LGBTQIA+ materials from the library collections, including those for adults. Demands for removal of the library\u2019s board members were also made. On August 12th, during special meeting between the County Commissioners and the CCPL library board, the County Commissioners announced that their job was to appoint library board members, not censor materials. County Commissioner D.G. Reardon stated &#8220;If the county begins to censor books that have anything to do with LGBTQ+, where does that censorship end?  We need to take responsibility for our actions, for our kids\u2019 actions, and our grandkids\u2019 actions, and stop talking about censoring, taking books out, burning books, and going back to the days of the Nazis.\u201d  Library Director Tom Lesley walked the commissioners through the library&#8217;s material reconsideration process and stated that no forms had been filed against the books that folks had complained about at the county commissioner meeting. Commissioner Shelstad then asked each library board member to answer whether they thought <strong>This Book is Gay<\/strong> was appropriate for Campbell County youth. All but one declined to answer, indicating they had not reviewed the book. Mandy Steward said she did not feel it was appropriate. Shelstad then said, \u201cIt seems to me, the formal process has been started because of the public comments from the community. I would say that we need to take a look at this book, whether this [request for reconsideration] form has been filled out or not.\u201d  CCPL Board Chair Hollie Stewart disagreed. \u201cIf you want to get divorced in the State of Wyoming, you don\u2019t get to just go stand on the courthouse steps and say \u2018divorce me now,\u2019 you have to file the paperwork. You have to make the claim. You have to allow the other side to also collect their thoughts and make their claims as well.\u201d  Prior to August 2021, only one book had ever been challenged and that was years ago. This discussion continued at the August 17th County Commissioners meeting. Kevin Bennett who had led protests in front of the library suggested that &#8220;that the county could save hundreds of thousands of dollars on social services for at-risk youth if the commission would take \u201csexually perverted materials . . . from the children and teen sections and put [them] in the adult section.\u201d  Citizen Edie Reno also had interesting ideas to share. \u201cIt\u2019s already been proven and documented that when a child looks at porn\u2014and don\u2019t be telling me there is not porn in that library, you\u2019ll find it\u2014it changes their DNA.\u201d Reno did not cite any studies supporting this outlandish claim. Jordan Engdahl said it is difficult for children who are struggling with their sexual identity to be who they are when they see adults in the community acting this way. \u201cI find it astonishing that a special meeting was called for a book which had not even had a formal complaint filed against it,\u201d said Doug McGee. \u201cIt seems a very small but very vocal part of the community wishes to bypass the established procedures and claim authority over disposition of individual items in the collection, which I think would set a very dangerous precedent.\u201d  \u201cWe can\u2019t just censor books and throw them out of the library because you don\u2019t like them,\u201d said Mike Clymer. \u201cWe can\u2019t just pull up and say, \u2018I don\u2019t like that book because it mentions the \u2018V\u2019 word,\u2019\u201d Clymer continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to use some common sense.\u201d  Between the August 12th meeting and the August 17th meeting, 22 forms for reconsideration had been filed against these 12 titles &#8211; <strong>This Book is Gay<\/strong> by Juno Dawson, <strong>Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard<\/strong> by Alex Bertie, <strong>The Babysitters\u2019 Coven<\/strong> by Kate Williams, <strong>Music from Another World<\/strong> by Robin Talley, <strong>The V-Word: True Stories About First-Time Sex<\/strong> by Amber Keyser, <strong>Quick &amp; Easy Guide to Queer &amp; Trans Identities<\/strong> by Mady G., <strong>Mary Wears What She Wants<\/strong> by Keith Negley, <strong>Meena<\/strong> by Ine Van Mol, <strong>My Body My Choice<\/strong> by Robin Stevenson, <strong>The Black Flamingo<\/strong> by Dean Atta, <strong>Heartstopper<\/strong> by Alice Oserman, and <strong>Jane Against the World<\/strong> by Karen Blumenthal<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\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>September 8, 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-12240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12240","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=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12248,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12240\/revisions\/12248"}],"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=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}