The National Education Association (NEA) on Monday recommended that teachers include the controversial book\u00a0\u201cGender Queer\u201d\u00a0on their summer reading lists.<\/p>\n
The book was featured in the NEA\u2019s\u00a0\u201cGreat Summer Reads for Educators!\u201d\u00a0list that showcased 11 books.<\/p>\n
Among those books are \u201cWhite Fragility,\u201d a book that insists that White Americans use anger, shame and guilt to avoid taking responsibility for racial inequality.<\/p>\n
Other sections included \u201cbooks to help you forget about work\u201d and \u201cbooks to celebrate or help you understand Junetheenth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the \u201cbanned books\u201d section, Gender Queer is recommended as a reading.<\/p>\n
\u201cGender Queer\u201d has as courted major controversy among America parents for being in public school libraries throughout the US and has been challenged for its depictions and descriptions of oral sex as well as discussions on masturbation.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital previously reported on Gender Queer\u2019s author, Maia Kobabe, defending the sexually explicit graphic images in the memoir during an interview with NPR in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I honestly think the book is a lot less explicit than it could be,\u201d Kobabe told NPR.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe topic of gender touches on identity\u2026 and it touches on sexuality,\u201d Kobabe continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s hard to fully explain I think what like how a gender identity can impact every facet of life as an adult without touching at least\u00a0a little bit of sexuality. And I wanted to at least not to like shy away from that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The book also discusses Kobabe\u2019s journey of self-discovery towards identifying outside the \u201cgender binary.\u201d<\/p>\n
This list of books comes after the president of the National Education Association declared that racial and social justice is a \u201cPillar of the NEA\u2019s efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
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