Learn More Series Banned Books Storytime Marathon!

Bring your queer resistance vibes to the Banned Books Storytime Marathon, where we'll read LGBTQIA+ kid lit spoken-word style!

By Boston University Diversity & Inclusion

Date and time

Thursday, February 2, 2023 · 5 - 6:30pm EST

Location

Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground

808 Commonwealth Avenue Brookline, MA 02446

About this event

On World Read-A-Loud Day, bring a favorite pillow, a hot chocolate mug, and all your queer resistance vibes to the Learn More Series Banned Books Story Time!

Our read-a-loud marathon will rejoice in banned picture books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters and honor the pioneering, first-ever picture books that dared to disrupt gender norms in US publishing. We'll have cookies, tea, hot chocolate (with marshmallows, obv), then end it all with a pizza party dinner. All readers will get a free copy of either the YA bestseller Flamer or the eye-catching board book The Pronoun Book.

You can engage with the authors of those these books at our noontime virtual panel, What's So Dangerous About a Picture Book?: Book Bans and Queer Resistance in Children’s and YA Literature. Click HERE to register!

Sponsored by BU Diversity & Inclusion, the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground

Organized by

Boston University Diversity & Inclusion

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