ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- ACLU Affiliate Locator
- American Library Association – Office for Intellectual Freedom
- ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom: Reclaiming the Narrative: Advice from Authors of Challenged Books.
- Banned Books Week Coalition panel: Censorship of LGBTQ+ Comic Books
- Judy Blume, ed. Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).
- Book Ban Busters: Red Wine and Blue
- Book Riot: How to Fight Book Bans and Challenges
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- Christopher M. Finan, How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice (Hanover, NH: Steerforth, 2022).
- Florida Freedom to Read Project
- Emily J.M. Knox, Book Banning in the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
- NCAC Book Censorship Toolkit
- NEA: It’s Banned Books Week – Celebrate the freedom to read!
- PEN America’s Index of Censorship
- PFLAG: Training & Resources for Fighting Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship
- Texans for the Right to Read
- Wikipedia: 2021-22 book banning crisis in the US.
BOOK CHALLENGES IN THE NEWS
- ABC News: Where anti-critical race theory efforts have reached
- CBS News: Big majorities reject book bans
- CNN: Book Banning in the US – These are the authors of color who censors are trying to silence
- Fabulist Magazine: People who try to ban books truly believe that books are powerful
- Goodgoodgood: Banned Books Week: 18 Ways To Help & Advocate (2022)
- Slate: There’s a Simple Reason That Demands to “Ban” Books Like Maus Are Soaring
- School Library Journal: Authors Share the Emotions, Impact when Their Books Are Banned