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Michael Knowles

Sep 27, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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Kamala tells liberals to fight back against conservative "book bans." That might be why a public school in Kent, OH, has apparently created a list of "banned" books & instructed 14-year-olds to read them. The books are…disturbing. 🧵

2/ One of the books, This Book Is Gay, was written by James “Juno” Dawson, a man who says he’s a woman. James’s book primarily targets sexually confused adolescents and contains graphic sexual instructions.

3/ James writes about what he calls “girl-on-girl-sex,” telling teenage girls they may like to have “stuff poked up” their derrières and that the bodies of “trans women”—i.e., men—may only be “slightly different” from female bodies. (Redacted for decency.)

4/ He instructs girls as young as 14 that fingers “can do the job of five” phalluses as well as how to perform other unnatural acts.

5/ James doesn’t stop with girls. He instructs teen boys on “blowies,” which he describes as “popping another dude’s” appendage “in your mouth.” His “one hard and fast rule” is to “watch the teeth.”

https://twitter.com/ArchKennedy/status/1701667017277775961/video/1

6/ Other books the school library recommends the teens read include the infamous Gender Queer book, which contains cartoon porn, and All Boys Aren’t Blue which contains themes of rape and incest.

https://twitter.com/ArchKennedy/status/1701667017277775961/video/1

7/ We reached out to the school for comment, but they transferred two of my team members to unmanned voicemail boxes and then ignored all future calls. Eventually, the principal responded via email, referring us to the district superintendent.

8/ Our team tried calling the district superintendent multiple times to no avail. Email tracking suggests that he opened our email yesterday but has yet to respond.

9/ We aren’t talking about San Francisco or New York. This is happening in Kent, Ohio, in a Trump-voting county and a Republican state-congressional district.

10/ We’re going to figure out how this happened and how to prevent it from ever happening again.

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