Canadian manga-lovers website Kuriousity posted a story this week about an online retailer that no longer sells Bond of Dreams, Bonds of Love, a yaoi (boy’s love) manga from SuBLime Manga, to Canadian residents. Lissa Patillo with Kuriousity writes that…
Perks of Being a Wallflower Pulled from Illinois Junior High School
One of the most frequently banned and challenged books of the past decade has once again been pulled from public school classrooms after one set of parents objected to its content. Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which…
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Northville’s Response to the Anne Frank Challenge
Yesterday, we reported that the review committee at Northville Public Schools had elected to keep Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl in middle school classrooms, an important victory for the right to read. What follows is the letter…
Nebraska Library Won’t Remove Batman: The Killing Joke
In a victory for free speech, the review committee for the Columbus, Nebraska, Public Library and denied a challenge from a patron who demanded the removal of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke from library shelves. Batman:…
Victory in Defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
Two weeks ago, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund joined the Kids Right to Read Project and several other free speech organizations in signing a letter in defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. In a victory for…
