# Maia Kobabe
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maia kobabe is an American cartoonist. E is queer, nonbinary, and asexual. E uses Spivak pronouns.
Artful Solutions Middle Grade and YA Graphic Novels
Drawing from real-life situations that kids may face, the graphic novels of this panel combine art and words to tell meaningful stories. In Marshmallow & Jordan,Alina Chau depicts a young basketball player's experience after an accident leaves her paralyzed from the waist down, whose encounter with…
Jose Antonio Vargas Redefines America
Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and author of the book Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. He came to the US from the Philippines when he was twelve years old, and he didn’t discover he was undocumented until he was sixteen. We talk with him about his unique perspective …
Jacqueline Woodson on Telling Stories of our Ancestors
When award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson sat down to write her family’s story of the Great Migration, she wanted to make it accessible to all kinds of readers. So she wrote a children’s book called This Is the Rope. In this episode, Woodson talks about the importance of preserving the stories o…
Edwidge Danticat Is Invited to this Party
Celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary can feel like a party not everyone is invited to, especially for those whose immigration status is in limbo. In this episode, Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat talks about the impact of transnational migration has had on her writing, and the kin…
Julia Alvarez on Bilingualism as a Superpower
So many authors writing across languages and cultures point to Julia Alvarez’s debut novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, as one of their ancestors. In this episode, we hear from Alvarez about the importance of defending all kinds of stories—and why the American cannon needs to be explod…
A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta The Alberta book fight takes pages from an American playbook Book censorship is about power Politicizing parental identity A moral panic fueled by disinformation and social media What to do in the face of censorship
Early in June, Joh Smolders came home to a surprise. Leaning against the white door of his condo in Airdrie, Alta., a parcel wrapped in bright, vermillion-red packaging stood waiting. Smolders's heart skipped a beat. The first instalment of his subscription to LitResistance had arrived.
Filled with…
Linda Sarsour on Building a Better World
Linda Sarsour is a proud Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American activist, writer, and organizer. She’s spent her career building bridges between diverse groups of people, and working to make America a more equitable place. In this episode, she shares the stories that shaped her, and her vision for the …
Sandra Cisneros Has a Prescription For Us
Over forty years after The House on Mango Street came out, Sandra Cisneros is still hearing from readers about how her words healed them. In this episode, the award-winning writer shares the books that were her medicine growing up, and the prescription she has for all of us.
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How many …
Queer lines: Maia Kobabe and Nora Dåsnes
Few books have faced as much resistance as Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. The American Library Association reports that Gender Queer was the book they received the most requests to remove from libraries in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and it still ranks third for 2025.
In itself, Gender Queer is n…
An American school district actually burned this famous book in a furnace
What happened
In November 1976, the school board in Drake, North Dakota, unanimously ordered Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five removed from school premises after a parent objected to its profanity. AlterNet reports that officials demanded students surrender their copies, searched the lockers of t…
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