Non-Russiagate Project

This story contains book passages that are NSFW.

Curiosity got the best of me this weekend. For the past few months I have been increasingly concerned with the sexualization of children. Most pointedly, I have seen a number of tweets showing parents at school board meetings reading extremely graphic passages of books they found in school libraries.

That piqued my interest.

I am still working to collate a list of these books, but I spent about 30 minutes tonight looking at a few schools in Washington state, and I was surprised to find that these books are very common. Not just at high schools, but at middle schools and grade schools.

Parents should know. They should be fully informed.

Be Advised: I am about to share some passages from books that are NSFW (but grade/middle school children are reading them?)

This is the list of books that I’ve compiled so far:

• Lawn Boy - By: Evison

• Out of Darkness - By: Perez

• Gender Queer - By: Kobabe

• The Bluest Eye - By: Morrison

• L8r, G8r - By: Myracle

The first school I clicked on (from an alphabetical list) had one of these books, L8r G8r, which is marketed as a “young adult” series. It is entirely written in the style of a text message conversation and has no literary value.

I want to point out, it’s found at a middle school, and actually, several middle schools close to my target search in Washington state.

I don’t feel the need to go through the entire book, because it is truly disgusting….but, here are two passages that 6th graders are reading:

Why? Why does this need to be in a middle school library? Do you think parents should have a say in this?

I did a few other searches before I got too disgusted, and found “The Bluest Eye” in middle schools, high schools, and most disturbing, a K-8 school (Tops). This book contains a graphic scene of a father raping his 11 year old daughter.

I found Lawn Boy in several high schools. I found Gender Queer in one.

I’m going to save you from having to read passages from those books, which are extremely graphic and inappropriate. If a parent wants their child to read them, they can buy it for their child.

This is a challenge I’ll make to you. Go to school websites in your area and go to the library catalogs and search for the list of books above.

If you find any, send me a shoutout and maybe consider heading to the next school board meeting.