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#1 Most Challenged Book of 2021

Gender Queer Most Challenged of 2021

Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer is 2021’s most challenged graphic novel. Kobabe wants eir memoir to remain in our libraries. Youth, our readers, want Gender Queer to remain in our libraries. In that spirit, the following resources were curated to assist librarians addressing challenges to Gender Queer.

April 4, 2022April 5, 2022 Victoria Rahbar Banned and Challenged Books, LGBTQIA+, School Libraries
Exercise your whole brain - read comics!

Banned Comics for Your Classroom

The phrase “removed from the school library” is becoming all too frequent in our national discourse on the place of comics and graphic novels in both the classroom and the library. Amongst this discourse, educators and librarians are working together to keep comics in the library, but what to do once they return to the shelf? What about bringing them into the classroom?

February 8, 2022February 17, 2022 Victoria Rahbar Banned and Challenged Books
comic book writer and creator, Stan Lee picture from: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/05/19/an-interview-with-stan-lee/

The Marvel-ous Stan Lee and Diversity in Comic Books

These characters were real and flawed. They grappled with moral issues. And yet, they fought hard for justice and saved the day. Their victories showed readers that they, too, could be a hero, standing up to evil and protecting the innocent, and that they didn’t have to be perfect to do so.

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 Rebecca Slocum Authors, Diversity, General Interest

C2E2: ALA, OIF & librarians galore

ALA’s Tina Coleman has the scoop on ALA’s presence at this weekend’s C2E2 Comic Con in Chicago! If you’re going, make sure to say hi to the OIF pals at […]

April 13, 2012April 13, 2012 Jonathan Kelley Banned Books Week, Censorship, Office for Intellectual Freedom

OIF webcasts now available for purchase

In 2011, OIF presented two series of webinars – Intellectual Freedom Summer School and Intellectual Freedom across the Globe – that were recorded and are now available for purchase.  To […]

January 19, 2012January 19, 2012 Jonathan Kelley Intellectual Freedom Issues, International issues
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