Schools are banning my book. But queer kids need queer stories.
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from The Washington Post,
10/29/21:
Very late on the night of Sept. 23, I was tagged in an Instagram video. It looked like a city council meeting, with an angry woman talking about something at a lectern. I didn’t turn the sound on. “Here are the sickos who wrote those awful books,” wrote a commenter, tagging me and another author, Jonathan Evison.
The next morning, I woke up to emails from journalists at the Associated Press and local D.C. news stations. My debut graphic book, “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” had been banned at a Fairfax County school board meeting.
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