The graphic memoir, illustrated by Kobabe, explores the author’s experience of being nonbinary and includes some confusing and graphic sexual encounters. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (2019)Ĭhallenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit The following is a list of 2022’s most challenged books - with some ties among the Top 10 - and the reasons ALA cited for censorship. She encouraged students, parents and allies fighting censorship to join initiatives like ALA’s Unite Against Book Bans. “We hear almost daily from students how much it means to find their lives and experiences reflected in the library’s materials - and the pain they feel when their very identity is called obscene. “Every book ban that removes the books that reflect the authentic experiences of gay, queer, and transgender teens and adults from the shelves of a school or public library is an act of erasure, a message to those students that they don’t belong to the community, that their voices don’t matter,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, told LGBTQ Nation. Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay rounds out the list with 48 formal challenges. The graphic novel/memoir faced 151 formal calls for censorship in libraries across the country.
Seven of the top 13 most challenged books contained LGBTQ+ themes and/or characters, including the most challenged title, author Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. A record 2,571 unique titles were targeted for censorship.
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