Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia
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Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the most banned book in the USA and now it's  being challenged in the courts in Australia.  Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.  This episode explores Gender Queer, an illustrated memoir which details Maia Kobabe's experience of coming out as non-binary and asexual. The book has been banned in school and public libraries across the US. In Australia, a conservative Queensland activist is seeking to have it banned and is taking the Australian Classification Review Board to the Australian Federal Court over it's unrestricted classification of the memoir. Is the US book banning movement coming to Australia?
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