WNDB is collecting information on the soft censorship of diverse books across the US. Have you witnessed soft censorship in your community? Please share your experience below. Your response can be made completely anonymously.
According to the SLJ, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." And it tends to happen "without people knowing and [often] can’t be proven."
WNDB is gathering these stories to better understand where this censorship is happening and which books are getting targeted. This will help us create programming to best support teachers, librarians, and the educators affected.
(Link to "Not Quite Banned: Soft Censorship that Makes LGBTQIA+ Stories Disappear," SLJ, Feb 4 2020:
https://www.slj.com/story/not-quite-banned-soft-censorship-makes-LGBTQIA-stories-disappear-libraries)