I am glad to see this story continue to gain traction in the media, because the banning of books about girls learning to code — in any school, for any amount of time — is frankly terrifying. And for those who are asking if the books were “really” banned, they were. The @GirlsWhoCode book series was banned by the Central York School District — and it’s disappointing that the district is not taking ownership of what happened there in 2020-2021.

Thank you all for the support you showed this weekend as I learned our @GirlsWhoCode books had been banned. I spent the weekend digging into what happened, and have a few updates to share.

politico.com/newsletters/we… First, you should know there are extraordinary people fighting these senseless book bans on the ground: teachers, students, parents, and school faculty who have been getting organized and — in the case of the Central York School District in PA — winning.

I woke up this morning to a news alert that our @GirlsWhoCode middle-grade book series was banned by some school districts as part of the Mom for Liberty effort to ban books. To be honest, I am so angry I cannot breathe.
newsweek.com/handmaids-tale… This series was our labor of love, our commitment to our community to make sure that girls — all girls — see themselves as coders. You cannot be what you cannot see, and this was our effort to get more girls, girls of color interested in coding.

@jowhittemore @GirlsWhoCode