Banned Books Week Australia 2024. The event is supported by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free. Book bans disproportionately target books by authors of color and lgbtq+ authors, threatening to further silence already.
Ala documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship in 2023—a 65% surge over 2022 numbers—as well as 1,247 demands to censor library books, materials, and. If you are at the conference, stop by the huge beach chair outside exhibit hall e today to have your voice and/or image recorded for this year’s banned books.
