What banned book are you reading or have you recently read? Me: Beloved.
"The shift from banning individual books based on content to banning them based on words, as well as the growing number of challenges to nonfiction books, reflect that book bans are now systematized efforts to fundamentally change what people know and how they know it."
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/20/why-not-just-ban-all-the-books/
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#Humanities
(((Cindy Weinstein)))
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