Banned Books Week, in its 4oth year, is the American Library Association’s annual rallying cry for resistance to censorship. It was launched in 1982, when a rising tide of attempts to remove books from libraries had the ALA clamoring for the public’s attention.
Now we’re experiencing another, even bigger surge of attempted book bans around the country. And Seattle Public Library regional manager and intellectual freedom expert Steve DelVecchio points out that a striking majority of these would-be restrictions target the work of Black and LGBTQ authors.
Ensconced within the liberal bubble of Seattle, it’s tempting to deem these issues peripheral, or even assume that being banned in
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