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Jesse Andrews On ‘Me And Earl’ And The Book-Banning Girls In Tallahassee, Florida – Guest Column
Editor’s note: Jesse Andrews is author of the novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which is one of five books pulled from the library shelves of high schools within the purview of Tallahassee, Florida-based Leon County Schools superintendent Rock Hanna, after the Leon County chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty petitioned the schools to remove the book because of the frank depiction of sex and gender identity issues. The others include Push, the Sapphire-penned book that inspired the film Precious;Doomed by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk; Lucky by Alice Sebold; and Dead End by Jason Meyer. Still being scrutinized is an autobiography of tennis great Billie Jean King, because it discusses her sexuality. This has been an ongoing theme precipitated by policies passed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative Republicans. DeSantis is running for president and probably figured to ride his brawl with Disney into the White House, until Bob Iger began pushing back in ways that have cost revenue and investments it planned for the state of Florida, where Disney is its largest taxpayer and employer. What’s it like to see your book banished for, as Moms for Liberty argued in its email to the school board, violate state law and subject school district personnel to potential felony prosecution and litigation? Here, Andrews — also a screenwriter whose credits include co-writing with Mike Jones Pixar’s Luca — explains it all.
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Kim Kardashian poses with Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea
Kim Kardashian is promoting her appearance in a docuseries from Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton.On Friday, The Kardashians star shared a snap of the trio together as she urged her 329M followers to stream the series. Kim captioned the picture: 'I'm excited to be a part of Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton’s incredible journey to find out what it truly means to be gutsy! Stream the docuseries now on @appletvplus @hillaryclinton.' Kim Kardashian poses with Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea to promote their new docuseries: 'Find out what it means to be gutsy!' In 2019, Clinton, 47, and her daughter Chelsea, 42, created a book about many woman who accomplished incredible feats and overcame mountains of obstacles. Their book included the likes of Coretta Scott King, Billie Jean King, Amy Schumer and even Kim Kardashian; Clinton recently got aught up in a Twitter spat with Laura Ingraham for their decision to leave out Queen Elizabeth II from the project.Ingraham felt the two had disregarded the monarch and made her feelings clear in a tweet to the former first lady. In 2019, Clinton and her daughter Chelsea penned a book about many women who accomplished incredible feats and who they called 'gutsy''Hillary Clinton just wrote a book about ''gutsy'' women.
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