This year will feature more than 550 participants in panels, readings, performances, cooking demonstrations and more on the USC campus
The initiative will give access to hundreds of thousands of e-books & audio books including those that have been impacted by recent book bans
Nearly 1,600 books in more than 700 libraries/systems across the nation involving race, gender & the LGBTQ community, were targeted
“Here Wentzville has targeted and removed books that are from the perspective and viewpoint of racial or sexual minorities”
“If you look at most of the books that they are trying to ban, they are the stories of people from historically marginalized groups”
Undeterred by the mayor's blatant homophobia the library set up a crowd fundraiser to offset a potential financial shortfall
Utterback spoke in November against LGBTQ+ books in North Kansas City school libraries that showed sexual acts
"The only course of action is a formal public apology to all the librarians & for you to submit your resignation from the school board”
A conversation with Sarah Schulman and Darnell Moore
Patricia Nell Warren’s 1974 New York Times best-seller is a love story for the gay ages
