Mastodawn

Between July 2021 and June 2022 Texas school districts banned 801 books in 22 school districts

Making sense of the politics behind the unprecedented attacks on Texas school library volumes that deal with issues of race and gender.

Texas Monthly

@juddlegum I once read a description of politics and how it affects the world around it that I’ve found quite apt.

If the world were a vehicle, right leaning politics would be the break, and left leaning politics would be the gas.

Burning books shows this metaphor clearly.