Banned Books with Drag Story Hour- Arizona 2021!
By Drag Story Hour- Arizona
By Drag Story Hour- Arizona
Join Drag Story Hour- Az and Bookmans Mesa for a virtual Banned Books Week story hour with Felica Minor! Felicia read:
- I Am Enough by Grace Byers
- I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings
- Monster Trouble by Lane Fredrickson
Later in the week on October 2nd, 2021, Lil Miss Hot Mess read for Drag Queen Story Hour:
I Am Enough
Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo
$18.99 $17.66Banned through a resource list that Central York High School (Pennsylvania) issued in Fall 20213. Through the work of student and community protests, the decision to ban this book and its fellow resources was rescinded in the same year.
I Am Jazz
Jazz Jennings, Jessica Herthel, et al.
$17.99 $16.73Banned several times since it has been published, I Am Jazz has been on ALA’s Banned Book List for a Transgender character, and for confronting a topic that is “sensitive, controversial, and politically charged”.
Monster Trouble!
Lane Fredrickson and Michael Robertson
$16.95 $15.76Banned through a resource list that Central York High School (Pennsylvania) issued in Fall 20213. Through the work of student and community protests, the decision to ban this book and its fellow resources was rescinded in the same year.
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
Marianne Celano, Ann Hazzard, et al.
$16.99 $15.80Challenged for “divisive language” and because it was thought to promote antipolice views.
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish
Lil Miss Hot Mess and Olga de Dios Ruiz
$17.99 $16.73Drag Queen Story Hours have been challenged and banned all throughout the United States. In 2021, Lil Miss Hot Mess read her book for Let’s Learn, a program produced by WNET (a PBS television network in NYC). After the episode premiered, it was challenged. Later in 2021, PBS pulled the episode from local member stations throughout the United States, who deemed the content too controversial.