Jessica tells Christine how Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe came to be the most banned book in the US, in part one of a two-part series.

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Tune in next week for the second half of our discussion about Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe! 

Links to episode 3 quotations and further reading:

• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• Further reading on the Comstock Act
• The Nov. 1, 1970 New York Times review of The Bluest Eye by Haskel Frankel
• Miller v. California, January 18, 1972, and the definition for "legal obscenity"
• Further reading about Spivak pronouns (and a great resource for trans and nonbinary teens about other types of pronouns)
• Further reading about Waldorf schools
• 2022 Publishers Weekly article about Oni-Lion Forge Publishing
• "How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country," New York Times, by Alexandra Alter, June 22, 2023