Jennifer Morrison: 'Students and their families deserve to exist without the threat of erasure and our dedicated educators and staff deserve support rather than allegations that put them and the students they teach at risk for increased violence.'
By Jennifer Morrison | Special to The TribuneMost people would agree that the temperature of the “Culture War” is hot, even rivaling the heat ofWhile we have a scientific scale that can predict, monitor and alert us to the danger of a volcanic eruption, we don’t have a similar scale on which to monitor the threat of danger to each other and our communities by erasure tactics and rhetoric. We’re currently relying on death and loss to assess threat level.
We know that there are LGBTQ+ students attending public schools in Utah. We also know that there are kids within public schools in Utah who are being raised by their gay parents. Individuals who regularly see faces like theirs and their families on TV and in books forget that there are children who rarely have that experience.
In fact, two-thirds of the removed books contain LGBTQ+ characters. While most were removed from a single library, there are real concerns regarding targeted book bans and its effects. When asked how many or if any books featuring characters from the LGBTQ+ community remain in ASD libraries, the officials I contacted were unable to answer. When asked when the newly banned books would be replaced with books written with similar characters that answer was also unknown.
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