Books showing explicit sexual material should prevail over parents’ efforts to remove them from school libraries, according to a website that fights against what it calls “censorship” of books.
BookRiot, self-described as “the largest independent editorial book site in North America,” offers a “How to Fight Book Bans and Challenges: An Anti-Censorship Tool Kit.” The guide advises how libraries can fight parents’ attempts to remove certain books from their shelves.
BookRiot recommends books as part of its “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the action steps we’re taking to walk the walk.”
Some of the books the organization advocates for keeping in libraries include “Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe, which has drawings of people having sex; “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George Johnson, which gives a vivid description of two male children having sex; and “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley Hope Perez, which includes at least one passage describing sexual assault against a minor….