In light of the recent wave of book bannings taking place across The United of 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.
On today’s episode we’re joined by Alison Bechdel author of the frequently banned graphic memoir Fun Home, and she shares why she hates having to talk about the banning of books. Then we get into a conversation about the comfort level of students with high school English teacher Kelsey Reynolds. We also hear from TV writer and actor Brandon Kyle Goodman, and actress and podcast host Becca Tobin, about their favorite banned books.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.
Alison Bechdel
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
- Fun Home (Lisa Kron, 2015)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- “LGBTQ book ban proponent faces felony child molestation charge in Missouri” (Angela Yang, NBC News)
- Twitter thread on Maus (Gwen C. Katz, @gwenckatz)
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Boy in the Striped in Pajamas by John Boyne
- New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
- Anita Bryant
- Bechdel Test
- Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982)
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Kelsey Reynolds
- New Harmony High School (New Orleans, LA)
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- All About Love by bell hooks
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Tibetan Singing Bowl
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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