“But you gotta live your own life. You gotta take care a your own sh*t before you get started doing things for errybody else.”
- from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, a frequently banned book
#10 (tie) on the American Library Association’s list of Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022. See what we are doing about it at Re:faith.
Contrary to political rhetoric, banning books doesn’t “protect kids.” Book banning denies reality, trying to shove it into a shape that is more palatable, hoping to gaslight kids into believing this made-up version. If you want to do that to your own kids. Well, I think that’s a bad idea, but they are your kids. If you do that to my kids, to all the kids… that’s just wrong.
