Canadian School Libraries issued this statement on May 24, 2023 in response to growing calls across the country to remove or restrict access to books in school library collections that express LGBTQia2s+ perspectives, represent characters of differing sexual orientations or gender identities, or deal with sexual health, and books where the main characters are people of colour.
Read the full statement here and share it widely.
Please help gather data on challenges to school library resources. Report challenges to:
- The Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Library Challenges Database AND/OR
- The Canadian Federation of Library Association’s (CFLA_FCAB) Intellectual Freedom Challenges Survey