Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states
Texas made the most attempts to ban or restrict books in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA).
Last year, there were 1,269 documented censorship attempts to restrict 2,571 unique titles – the highest number ever recorded by ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and double the 729 book challenges made in 2021.
Texas made 93 attempts to restrict access to over 2,300 books.
The book ban movement, has been gaining speed in recent years across the US, particularly in Republican-led states, and is becoming a central theme in religious-political activism. Often the books contain issues related to LGBTQ+ communities or race.
You’re right. Let’s go ahead and remove all the naked statues from museums, the paintings of naked people, any media mentioning rape, abuse, or even normal teens having sex, and any hint that lgbtq people existed before Will and Grace.
So happy my children are protected from all this porn! Sure hope they remember how protected from porn they are if they happen to be in the 1/3 of people who are sexually abused before the age of 18 and have no way to know what happened, how to deal with it, or how to find support.