When right-wing activists got wind that a fall 2021 display of graphic novels at North Kingstown High School in Rhode Island included Maia Kobabe’s award-winning Gender Queer: A Memoir, they quickly demanded that the book be removed, filing an official complaint with the local school board. Opponents of the book also submitted a second complaint to the police charging that school librarians were…
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