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Banned Book Club at Kerrytown BookFest: Gender Queer

Name: Banned Book Club at Kerrytown BookFest: <em>Gender Queer</em>
Start: 2022-09-18T14:45:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-18T15:45:00-04:00
Location: Kerrytown Book Festival

September 18, 2022 @ 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm EDT

Free

Booksweet’s Banned Book Club wraps up with a special Banned Books Week event at Kerrytown BookFest with a discussion of the #1 most challenged book of 2021: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe.

When: Sunday, September 18
Time: 2:45-3:45 pm
Where: Kerrytown BookFest, held this year in the Morris J. Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College (4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor)
What: a participatory, book club style conversation for teens and adults about the #1 most challenged book of 2021: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

What is Kerrytown BookFest?
The Kerrytown BookFest is a FREE community event to celebrate books, those who create them, and those who read them. The day is filled with entertainment, education, and hands-on experiences. Learn more about the 2022 Kerrytown BookFest line-up.

What is Banned Book Club?
Since March 2022, Booksweet has been gathering interested readers together monthly for great conversations about banned books.

Booksweet will donate 10% of the profits from all 2022 Banned Book Club reads to the ACLU as part of our annual Banned Books Week celebrations September 18-24, 2022.

Shop Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe at Booksweet.
Shop the full Banned Book Club list online, in store, or at the Booksweet booth at Kerrytown Bookfest!

Details

Date:: September 18, 2022
Time:: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm EDT
Cost:: Free
Event Categories:: Discussion / Book Club, In-person Event
Event Tags:: Banned book club, gender queer, maia kobabe
Website:: https://www.shopbooksweet.com/9-16-banned-book-club-gender-queer/

Organizer

: Booksweet
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Venue

: Kerrytown Book Festival
: 4800 E Huron River Dr
Ann Arbor, 48105 United States + Google Map
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Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information. The event is supported by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amnesty International USA, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Banned Books Week Sweden, Children’s Book Council, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, GLAAD, Index on Censorship, Little Free Library, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Banned Books Week also receives generous support from HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Random House.