Banned Together

This piece originally appeared here courtesy of the Center for Educator Wellness and Learning.

I recently participated in a panel at the University of South Carolina law school after a showing of the film Banned Together. The first film produced by the streaming service Kanopy (available through many libraries), the film focuses mainly on a student group responding to book bans in Beaufort.

Watching the film was a little surreal, because I know many of its subjects very well. These are the students and adults-- including members of the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization (DAYLO), Families Against Book Bans (FABB) and the South Carolina ACLU-- I’ve worked with and watched testify at many State Board of Education meetings over the past few years.

Image from the film’s official website.