A cool guide to U.S. states with the most book bans
A cool guide to U.S. states with the most book bans
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.
I like that 0 is very distinct, because they should stand out... But everything else should really be a gradient between two colors, and neither of them should be black when zero is grey....
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.
When I went to school they hung up posters telling us to read banned books. Now my state is book ban crazy. Apparently 2022 is very out of date.
Teachers don't want the books banned
Making grey 0, black the highest and intense red the lowest above 0 is a weird palette choice
This is how fascists virtue-signal
WTF is going on with NJ in that map??
The whitest of states
California and New York banned more books than Mississippi.
Well yeah, you don't have to ban many books when you've got a single digit literacy rate.
/s
You may not be far off the mark. It's likely that a lot of the banned books aren't in libraries in Mississippi. They do their kids dirty.
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.
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.
These Øs make it read like the subtitles to the intro for Monty Python and the Holy Grail
nice ! new books to read
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.
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.
What books are banned in CA? It's my understanding that banning books is itself banned in CA.
Sure is land of the free in there
I like how most of New York is red, except Long Island. Long Island isn't its own state (yet).
I personally think every Rupi Kaur book should be banned. Not because it's controversial, but just because they're horrid excuses for poetry.
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.
congrats to mike curato for being the only man on this list
I remember a lgbtq book was banned bcs it was teaching weird topics
I am not for outright banning of books, but I am against mandatory reading of certain books for classes. There are some pretty sexually graphic scenes in a number of books not marketed as erotic that I believe have no place in the standard classroom or the elementary school library. A certian section at a public library, sure, but schools, no. It is like those backrooms at blockbuster.
Do you have any examples?
I think a classroom, where the reading is guided and purposeful can be a good setting for these kinds of topics.
Why would you think it is a good idea to ban sexual content from schools?