Ryan Estrada on Mythryl: “Most school book bans in a year is not a record we wanted, but we…”

Most school book bans in a year is not a record we wanted, but we got it. And that's even without counting all the books that were secretly removed in unreported shady under-the-table ways to avoid calling them bans, which I'd assume is also at record levels.

PEN America@penamerica.bsky.social

Our latest accounting of book bans increases to 34,000 instances the total number of book bans since we began documenting the spreading book censorship crisis in schools in 2021. #BannedBooks

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