Bratmobile

Lately I've been researching everything I can find about riot grrl, and in doing so I think I may have found my new obsession: Bratmobile.

Banned Books: An Essay

(Note: this is an essay I whipped up for english class. It contains spoilers for John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men as well as Looking for Alaska by John Green and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. If you don't like spoilers, maybe you should read something else. Enjoy! )

In the past, as well as recently, books have been banned on the grounds of being sexually explicit, containing language that is considered to be offensive, or containing topics or information not suitable for young audiences - or any audience (American Library Association). This is done with good intention. The hearts of the people behind these decisions are "in the right place," so to speak.  According to Noam Chomsky, "if we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." With this in mind, as well as the grounds on which all books have been banned, the justification of these grounds, and the grounds on which John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men has been challenged or banned, it is clear that this book should never have been banned at all.