6/5/2023 0 Comments Rupi kaur books![]() ![]() “During the first half of the 2022-23 school year PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans lists 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles, an increase of 28 percent compared to the prior six months, January – June 2022.”Īccording to the report, instances of book bans this school year are most prevalent in Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah, and South Carolina. “The 2022-23 school year has been marked to date by an escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States,” the April 20 report notes. ![]() Poet Rupi Kaur’s debut book “Milk and Honey,” which explores issues of sexual assault and violence, was one of the most banned books in schools during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, a recent PEN America report has revealed. ![]()
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