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Gender Queer was the last book an Australian council tried to ban. It’s still being appealed in federal court

  • Written by Penni Russon, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Monash University
Gender Queer was the last book an Australian council tried to ban. It’s still being appealed in federal courtMaia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer

Gender Queer, a graphic-novel memoir of coming out as non-binary, was at the centre of Australia’s perhaps highest-profile book banning furore in recent years – that is, before western Sydney’s Cumberland City Council banned books on same-sex parenting.

And Gender Queer’s status is...

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