Before an overflow crowd of community members, the public library board in West Chicago, Illinois voted 6-1 last night to retain the LGBTQIA-themed children’s picture book This Day in June by Gayle Pitman in the children’s section. A West Chicago…
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TONIGHT: West Chicago Library Board Considers Challenge to This Day in June
Two parents in West Chicago, Illinois want the LGBTQIA-themed children’s picture book This Day in June by Gayle Pitman removed from the local public library, and the anti-gay Illinois Family Institute is encouraging supporters to attend a library board meeting…
UK Woman Who Faced Police Questioning Over Book Wants Independent Investigation
A British Muslim woman who was detained and questioned at a Yorkshire airport last year for reading a book about Syrian art and culture is still pushing for an independent investigation into the incident. Despite ample evidence that South Yorkshire…
Nominations Open for Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award
Cartoonists’ Rights International has opened nominations for their Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award. You can nominate “a cartoonist or group of cartoonists who have displayed courage in the face of threats to their life or liberty.” The nomination deadline is…
New GNs Signed by Jason Aaron, Becky Cloonan, Brian K. Vaughan & More Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with some excellent graphic novels, including The Other Side, Scalped, Southern Bastards, and more signed by Jason Aaron; By Chance or Providence signed by Becky Cloonan; plus Saga Books One and Two and Y: The Last Man signed by Brian K. Vaughan!…
Fanny Hill: The ‘Ban’ That Wasn’t
It was a story made for sensational headlines and easy clickbait: Fanny Hill, John Cleland’s 1748 faux memoir of a London prostitute, was supposedly banned at a modern British university for fear of offending delicate millennial students. But close on…
Judge Rules Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban Unconstitutional and Discriminatory
A federal judge ruled yesterday that Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies curricula is both unconstitutional and designed with discriminatory intent. Judge A. Wallace Tashima has not yet issued a final ruling on the next steps, but academic freedom advocates are…
Egyptian Cartoonist Continues to Highlight Women’s Issues in New Book
As one of the few professional women cartoonists in the Middle East, Egypt’s Doaa Eladl has been the target of threats from fundamentalists and even a lawsuit for blasphemy. Undeterred, she has just released a new book of cartoons dedicated…
Indiana School Board Member Wants Kite Runner Pulled from AP Class
A school board member and parent in Fishers, Indiana is pushing for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner to be removed from Hamilton Southeastern Schools’ AP Literature and Composition curriculum after her daughter was assigned to read it over the summer.…
RETAILERS: CBLDF Defender Vol. 2 #3 FOCs TODAY – Get Your Orders in Now!
CBLDF Defender comes to you from the frontlines of censorship! In the September issue, CBLDF talks with prodigious comics scribe Jason Aaron (Thor, Doctor Strange, Star Wars), and readers get a sneak peak at Chip Kidd’s latest project for CBLDF! Retailers,…