My mom would get mad because she had to pay for new ones."
I liked to run around, and I'd fall and rip my panty hose. "All of a sudden, I was forced to wear a skirt and panty hose. Most of the book instead explores the teens' struggles to understand their feelings of discomfort and alienation growing up and how their friends and families reacted to their transitions. The six subjects discuss anatomy, the difficulties of dating while trans and the impact of hormones on sex drive, but there are no specific descriptions of sexual acts in the book's 192 pages - unless you count the occasional PG-rated line like "I touched their you-know-whats." The Central Bucks School District, in the Philadelphia suburbs, recently implemented a widely criticized policy that allows any resident to challenge a book in school libraries, putting its potential removal to a school board vote. One of the first five books the board decided to review? "Beyond Magenta."Ĭritics of the book, published in 2014, have claimed it is "sexually explicit," but the actual content is hardly risque. Half of the books on the ALA's latest list were challenged due to queer content, and the same was true in 2021. "They should be – and are – celebrated, not banned."Īs parents and other library patrons increasingly seek to challenge books with LGBTQ+ themes, "Beyond Magenta" is one of many in the crosshairs. Here are six truly wonderful young people coming forward to tell their truth, to help others, and to show how much more we have in common than we have differences. "Frankly, I felt – and feel – awful," the Philadelphia-born author said by email. 27 on the ALA's most challenged books of the 2010s. "Beyond Magenta," was not included on the 2022 edition, released Monday, but it ranks No. Over 175 years ago, an enslaved couple escaped to Philadelphia through a daring disguiseīut while James' erotica has not appeared on the list since 2015, Kuklin's book has made it two more times - in 20.Free Library chooses satire 'Interior Chinatown' as One Book, One Philadelphia pick.Questlove gets into the book publishing business with new company and forthcoming Sly Stone memoir.Kuklin's book, "Beyond Magenta," was just about six real transgender teens navigating life.
That novel was infamous for its explicit depictions of BDSM sexual encounters between a fictional millionaire and a college student. The first year Susan Kuklin made the American Library Association's list of the most challenged books in the country, her book was ranked just below E.L.
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