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2018
Volume 113, Issue 6
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

As a space for educators to discuss the teaching of LGBTQIA+ literature, online communities can offer support, hope, and resistance at a time of book banning, censorship, and marginalization of LGBTQIA+ students.

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