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Slis Notes: Censorship Turbulent Times, Stacy Creel, Ph.D. Usm Slis
Slis Notes: Censorship Turbulent Times, Stacy Creel, Ph.D. Usm Slis
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Just this past year in 2021, the American Library Association (ALA) had to release a statement in response to an increase in censorship of materials centered on LGBTQIA+ issues and books by Black authors, Indigenous authors, or other people of color. The statement in its entirety is found here: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/statement-regardingcensorship. The statement reaffirms that ALA and its Executive Board, Divisions, Roundtables, and other units stand firm in the freedom to read and against censorship.