Day 3 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Ghazala Hashmi and Hannah Oliver Depp

In light of the recent wave of book bannings taking place across The United States, The Stacks is spending all week talking with people who are impacted by the bannings, ranging from students to educators, authors, and more, to help us think about what is at stake and what we can do.

We continue our conversation on banned books with Virginia State Senator Ghazala Hashmi. Senator Hashmi talks about the legality of book banning as well as the efforts that the governor of her state has put in place to report teachers for "divisive" lessons . Then we talk with Hannah Oliver Depp, owner of Loyalty Bookstores, about censorship versus curation.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

SENATOR GHAZALA HASHMI

• "Glenn Youngkin Set Up a Tip Line to Snitch on Teachers. It’s Only Gotten Weirder Since." (Arianna Coghill, Mother Jones)

• Toni Morrison

• Ernest J. Gaines

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• "Tennessee pastor leads burning of Harry Potter and Twilight novels" (The Guardian)

• American Library Association

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• "Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)" (The Stacks)

HANNAH OLIVER DEPP

• Loyalty Bookstores

• Banned Books Socks

• Banned Books Week

• American Library Association

• George M. Johnson

• All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

• Maus by Art Spiegelman

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

• Toni Morrison

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

• George by Alex Gino

• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• "Why I’ve Decided to Take My Podcast Off Spotify" (Roxane Gay, The New York Times)

• American Booksellers Association

• North Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA)

• Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

• Jason Reynolds

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

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