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nice ! new books to read
Are these books banned state wide? Or banned in a single school district in the state? While we should be raising awareness of the banning of books by conservatives, I am confused by this graphic and how I can use it for actionable change.
These Øs make it read like the subtitles to the intro for Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sure is land of the free in there
congrats to mike curato for being the only man on this list
Why do ppl choose colors / shades that you can’t tell apart
I had the exact same thought. I think the map would work way better if states without ban had a significantly lighter shade of grey (or even white)
As is the ones with 1-10 bans stand out by far the most due to the red being so bright (would need to be a bit more desaturated like the others). And the worse offenders are harder to see against the dark grey.
To add, there are palettes available online that work well even for most colorblind people
Yeah. This feels like someone looked at the uncolored map and decided it wasn’t depressing enough, and switched to gray for states without bans.
This looks like a recommendation list for teenagers, kind of how we looked for CDs that had the “parent advisory” sticker.
Reading any ACOTAR (a court of mist and fury, listed above) is such an enormous waste of time though.
Like if you want to enjoy some smut go for it but it’s really devoid of any merit besides being erotic.
Claiming you’re reading when it’s actually ACOTAR is like saying you’re watching cinema when it’s Backdoor Sluts 8.
You might be right technically but nobody would agree with you.
I literally just took a screen shot so I could buy the lot.
I like how most of New York is red, except Long Island. Long Island isn’t its own state (yet).
What books are banned in CA? It’s my understanding that banning books is itself banned in CA.
California and New York banned more books than Mississippi.
In 2023 California banned banning books:
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201804972/california-gov-newsom-barring-book-bans-race-lgbtq
I couldn’t find what books actually got banned in California. Some of those Cali districts are deep red though.
I’m pretty sure that Mississippi is deep red too.
Yep, I was just trying to see what exactly was banned in California and it turns out probably nothing now.
Well yeah, you don’t have to ban many books when you’ve got a single digit literacy rate.
/s
It’s a shame to see Gender Queer on there. I read it for my university class on comic art and thought it was really interesting. I would probably say it’s more of an adult book, but I think just about all the books I read for high school English were adult books.
The author is really cool too. When the covid lockdown happened my professor emailed them asking if there were any digital options for the book, since a lot of students relied on the local library or might have left their copies in their dorms. They sent my professor a pirated link and gave permission for us to use it.
Making grey 0, black the highest and intense red the lowest above 0 is a weird palette choice
New England wins again
It’s a little sad to see Mass on there, I gotta look up what got banned. I’m assuming it was in some deeply red school district as there’s some surprisingly conservative areas of the state.
WTF is going on with NJ in that map??
I’d take this with a healthy dose of salt. For instance The State of Wyoming has no laws banning any books. Certain School Districts and Public libraries have guidance regarding books they see as controversial but there is no STATE law about them.
I’m sure other States are being simarily misrepresented.
