by Kylie Chen (’24)

Banned Book Club is a column that examines the consequences of book banning on different populations and our country as a whole. Each article will feature a different banned book and explore the reasons behind why the book was banned, connecting those reasons to bigger issues within our country.

Banned Book Club: “A Raisin in the Sun” and how banning books impacts education

by Kylie Chen (’24) | November 18, 2022 As students walked into Summer Boismier’s English class at Norman High School in Oklahoma for the first day of school, they were greeted by bookshelves covered in red paper with the words “books the state doesn’t want you to read,” written across in black Sharpie. This was…

Banned Book Club: “Gender Queer,” the most banned book of 2021

by Kylie Chen (’24) | October 7, 2022 “Books unite us. Censorship divides us.” These six words were the theme for the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2021 Banned Books week, and they have become especially important in the past couple years, as an increasing number of books are being banned in the United States. According…