This document summarizes a webinar event on intellectual freedom and censorship. It introduces authors Christine Baldacchino, Jessica Herthel, and Wendy Doniger who discussed battling book bannings. The webinar encouraged participants to read two free articles from Index on Censorship and allowed attendees to ask questions through a question box. It concluded by noting the webinar recording and materials would be shared after the event.
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Battling bannings: Authors discuss intellectual freedom and the freedom to read
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Battling
Bannings:
Authors discuss
intellectual freedom
and the freedom to read
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Vicky Baker,
Deputy editor,
Index on Censorship magazine
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Read two Index on
Censorship articles for free!
Find them in the handouts section or via
the links in the chat box.
Stifling freedom by Mark Frary
Battle of the bans: an interview with author
Judy Blume and Vicky Baker
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Jessica Herthel,
Harvard Law School graduate
Co-author of I Am Jazz
Christine Baldacchino,
Former early childhood educator
Author of Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Wendy Doniger,
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions,
Vanderbilt University
Author of The Hindus: An Alternative History and On Hinduism
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DIAL BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
A division of Penguin Young Reader s Group
345 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10014
www.penguin.com/ youngreader s
U.S. $17.99________________
Canada$19.99
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old, Jazzknew that shehad a
girl’sbrain in aboy’sbody. She loved
pink and dressingup asamermaid and
didn’t feel likeherself in boy’sclothing.
Thisconfused her family, until they
took her to adoctor who diagnosed
Jazzastransgender and explained that
shewasborn thisway.
Jazz’sstory isbased on her real-life
experienceand shetellsit in asimple,
clear way that will beappreciated by
picturebook readers, their parents,
and teachers.
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by Jessica Herthel
& Jazz Jennings
pictures by
Shelagh McNicholas
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www.JessicaHerthel.com
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Wendy Doniger
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Be sure to check our sites for updates on our webinar series!
Christine Baldacchino, Jessica Herthel, and Wendy Doniger
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Find two free Index on Censorship
articles in the handouts section or via the
links in the chat box.