{"id":136792,"date":"2022-09-20T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gender-queer-author-maia-kobabe-talks-banned-books-part-of-a-widescale-political-attack"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:00:41","slug":"gender-queer-author-maia-kobabe-talks-banned-books-part-of-a-widescale-political-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gender-queer-author-maia-kobabe-talks-banned-books-part-of-a-widescale-political-attack","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gender Queer&#8217; author Maia Kobabe talks banned books: &#8216;Part of a widescale political attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; doesn&#8217;t take long to read, an hour or two tops. The brightly colored illustrations in Maia Kobabe&#8217;s autobiographical graphic novel tell&nbsp;the story of the author&#8217;s gender journey and eventual coming out as nonbinary and are meant to help readers &#8211; both queer readers and their allies &#8211; better understand nonbinary identities. The book is clear, concise, helpful and honest. It&#8217;s also the most banned book in the country, according to the American Library Association , which last year logged the highest number of book banning attempts since it began recording data in 2000. &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; is in&nbsp;the eye of a political storm,&nbsp;a largely conservative push to remove certain titles from schools and libraries, especially those that center on racism,&nbsp;sexuality and gender identity. Banned books explained: What are the most banned books and why? More: These 51 books are targets for book bans. Here&#8217;s why you should read them now And censors aren&#8217;t stopping at school boards. Just a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Kobabe, author of the most banned book in the U.S., speaks up against censorship: &#8220;I absolutely see it as part of a widescale political attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,19,261,55],"class_list":["post-136792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-journalism","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}