[CASL-L] Connecticut Book Challenges in the School Library

[Zahnii Artis]

I remember one year at True Colors there was a workshop by Lambda Legal
about their work with book bans. This would be specific to the LGBT
community but might be helpful. I tried to look it up, but this was all I
found
https://lambdalegal.org/blogs/us_20231006_top-banned-books-week-lgbtq-what-to-read/
It might be something where you could reach out to them about CT.

Zahnii Artis


On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM Sarah Robertson <srobertson at rsd20.org>
wrote:

> Good afternoon -
>
> I am working on my special project at Southern this semester and am
> planning on researching the correlation between book challenges and
> diversity, equity, and inclusion in the school library.
>
> I need help with a couple of items:
>
>
>    - I was wondering if anyone knows of where I could find information on
>    specific book challenges in Connecticut. My goal is to look at recent years
>    versus previous years in order to show whether more books are being
>    challenged now that deal with topics that would fall under the heading  of
>    DEI and/or are written by minority authors.
>
>
>    - Is anyone aware of any existing studies done in CT on book
>    challenges or book bans?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help,
>
> Sarah Robertson
>
>
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