'The Hill We Climb,' which Gorman recited at Biden's inauguration, is among the works being restricted due to supposed 'indirect hate messages.'
, claiming those books and Gorman’s poem amounted to “critical race theory.” Salinas happens to be a member of the far-right activist group Moms for Liberty andcomplaint and restricted the titles she didn’t like to grades six and above, denying access to the elementary students.
Gorman posted a long statement to Twitter on Tuesday evening saying she’s “gutted” by the news and by this alarming wave of book bans in general. “And let’s be clear,” she wrote. “Most of the forbidden works are by authors who have struggled for generations to get on bookshelves. The majority of these censored works are by queer or non-white voices.”Conservatives have been on a book-banning rampage the past few years, most notably in Texas and Florida.
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