{"id":570711,"date":"2022-03-23T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncac.org\/?p=86403"},"modified":"2022-03-23T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:56:47","slug":"texas-students-distribute-bipoc-and-lgbtq-books-during-freadom-week-initiative-student-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/23\/texas-students-distribute-bipoc-and-lgbtq-books-during-freadom-week-initiative-student-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Students Distribute BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Books During \u2018FReadom Week\u2019 Initiative | Student Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jerry Craft's New Kid was banned from school libraries in Katy, Texas earlier this year for \"pervasively vulgar\" content, I defended his book and advocated against this inexplicable censorship. After that, school board meetings in Texas only intensified. After months of persistent demands for intellectual freedom being outnumbered by conservatives and drowned out by [...]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ncac.org\/news\/texas-students-distribute-bipoc-and-lgbtq-books-during-freadom-week-initiative\">Texas Students Distribute BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Books During &#8216;FReadom Week&#8217; Initiative | Student Perspective<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ncac.org\/\">National Coalition Against Censorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/ncac.org\/news\/texas-students-distribute-bipoc-and-lgbtq-books-during-freadom-week-initiative\">Blog Archives - National Coalition Against Censorship<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jerry Craft&#8217;s New Kid was banned from school libraries in Katy, Texas earlier this year for &#8220;pervasively vulgar&#8221; content, I defended his book and advocated against this inexplicable censorship. After that, school board meetings in Texas only inten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1350,1303,1355,857,46424,1356,4,1351,1354],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570712,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570711\/revisions\/570712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}