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SUMMARY:May 2026 Banned Book Club - They Called Us Enemy
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur May book is They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books today! \nAbout the book: \nA stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei’s childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon — and America itself — in this gripping tale of courage\, country\, loyalty\, and love. \nGeorge Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek\, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s — and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. \nIn 1942\, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers\,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home\, where they would be held for years under armed guard. \nThey Called Us Enemy is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire\, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism\, his mother’s hard choices\, his father’s faith in democracy\, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. \nWhat does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you\, what can one person do? To answer these questions\, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime. \nCheck out the Wikipedia article on They Called Us Enemy\, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s discussion of banned graphic novels (including TCUE).
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/may-2026-banned-book-club-they-called-us-enemy/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:April 2026 Banned Book Club - 1984
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur April book is 1984 by George Orwell. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books today! \nAbout the book: \n“Orwell saw\, to his credit\, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is\, above all\, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker \nIn 1984\, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair\, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood\, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia\, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. \nLionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound\, terrifying\, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future\, and like any such fantasy\, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past\, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for 1984.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/april-2026-banned-book-club-1984/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260319T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
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SUMMARY:March 2026 Banned Book Club - Are You There God? It's Me\, Margaret
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur March book is Are you there\, God? It’s me\, Margaret by Judy Blume. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books on Jefferson St today! \nAbout the book: \nA Time Best YA Book of All Time \nMargaret shares her secrets and her spirituality in this iconic Judy Blume novel\, beloved by millions. \nMargaret Simon\, almost twelve\, likes long hair\, tuna fish\, the smell of rain\, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook\, New Jersey\, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy\, Gretchen\, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys\, bras\, and getting their first periods\, Margaret is happy to belong. \nBut none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion\, and that she isn’t going to the Y or the Jewish Community Center. What they don’t know is Margaret has her own very special relationship with God. She can talk to God about everything—family\, friends\, even Moose Freed\, her secret crush. \nMargaret is funny and real. As you read her story\, you’ll know why this book has been the favorite of millions of readers. It’s as if Margaret is talking right to you\, sharing her secrets with a friend. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resume for Are You There\, God? It’s Me\, Margaret.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/march-2026-banned-book-club-are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260219T190000
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SUMMARY:February 2026 Banned Book Club - Between the World and Me
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur January book is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nAbout the Book: \n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT \nHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading\,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) \nNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES \nONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, The Washington Post\, People\, Entertainment Weekly\, Vogue\, Los Angeles Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, New York\, Newsday\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly \nIn a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son\, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race\,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation\, and\, today\, threatened\, locked up\, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? \nBetween the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences\, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields\, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris\, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative\, reimagined history\, and fresh\, emotionally charged reportage\, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past\, bracingly confronts our present\, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for Between the World and Me. \n 
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/february-2026-banned-book-club-between-the-world-and-me/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Partner Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
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SUMMARY:January 2026 Banned Book Club - Nineteen Minutes
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur January book is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nAbout the Book: \nSterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier\, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case\, should be the state’s best witness\, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses\, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society\, who has the right to judge someone else\, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for Nineteen Minutes.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/january-2026-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20251130T025511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251130T030421Z
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SUMMARY:December 2025 Banned Book Club - Gender Queer
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur December book is Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Stop in or order your copy (regular or deluxe edition) from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nAbout the Book: \n2020 ALA Alex Award Winner\n2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book \nIn 2014\, Maia Kobabe\, who uses e/em/eir pronouns\, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time\, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now\, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity\, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes\, grappling with how to come out to family and society\, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction\, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. \nStarted as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual\, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates\, friends\, and humans everywhere. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for Gender Queer.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/december-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20251013T021358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T021441Z
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SUMMARY:November 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur November book is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nAbout the Book: \nA National Book Award winner\nA Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner \nBestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live. \nJunior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands\, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. \nHeartbreaking\, funny\, and beautifully written\, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian\, based on the author’s own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character’s art\, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/november-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20250904T164727Z
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SUMMARY:October 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur October book is Maus by Art Spiegelman. Stop in or order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman\, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe\, and his son\, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form\, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats\, the Jews mice)\, shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times). \nMaus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival\, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival\, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. (Amazon) \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ book resumé for Maus.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/october-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20250730T152429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T164804Z
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SUMMARY:September 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur September book is The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. Order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nThe unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile\, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife\, Clara\, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father\, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba\, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century\, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives\, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love\, magic\, and fate. (Fiction\, Adult) \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ Resumé for The House of the Spirits.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/september-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250821T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250821T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20250710T143742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T150517Z
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SUMMARY:August 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur August book is Crank by Ellen Hopkins. Order your copy from Cavalier House Books Lafayette today! \nKristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter\, gifted high school junior\, quiet\, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father\, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy\, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind\, her soul – her life. (Fiction\, Young Adult) \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ Resumé for Crank.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/august-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250724T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T045602
CREATED:20250602T181345Z
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SUMMARY:July 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur July book is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison! Buy your copy from Cavalier House Books today! \nEleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove\, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde\, blue-eyed children can devastate all others\, prays for her eyes to turn blue\, so that she will be beautiful\, people will notice her\, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove\, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison’s haunting first novel\, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town’s prosperous black families\, as well as its white families\, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered\, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. In awe of her clean well-groomed schoolmates\, and certain of her own intense ugliness\, Pecola tries to make herself disappear as she wishes fervently\, desperately for the blue eyes of a white girl. In her afterward to this novel\, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew: “Beauty was not simply something to behold\, it was something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not\, or possibly never would have\, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty-years later I was still wondering about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel that it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who had looked at her and found her so wanting\, so small a weight on the beauty scale? The novel pecks away at the gaze that condemned her. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ Resumé for The Bluest Eye.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/july-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
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UID:5431-1747332000-1747335600@www.lfy-cac.org
SUMMARY:May 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur May book is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini! Buy your copy from Cavalier House Books today! \nThe unforgettable\, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant\, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading\, the price of betrayal\, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love\, their sacrifices\, their lies. \nA sweeping story of family\, love\, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years\, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved\, one-of-a-kind classic. \nCheck out Unite Against Book Bans’ Resumé for The Kite Runner.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/may-2025-banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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UID:4953-1744912800-1744916400@www.lfy-cac.org
SUMMARY:April 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur April book is Sold by Patricia McCormick! Buy your copy from Cavalier House Books today! \nThe powerful\, poignant\, bestselling National Book Award finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph. \nLakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor\, her life is full of simple pleasures\, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school\, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops\, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.\nHe introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help\, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. \nAn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family’s debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. \nLakshmi’s life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still\, she lives by her mother’s words—Simply to endure is to triumph—and gradually\, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision-will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? \nWritten in spare and evocative vignettes by the co-author of I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition)\, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real\, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/banned-book-club-april-2025/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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UID:4945-1742493600-1742497200@www.lfy-cac.org
SUMMARY:March 2025 Banned Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us each month for thought-provoking discussions in the Banned Book Club\, where we will explore the powerful stories and ideas that have been silenced by book bans across America. Every month\, we’ll dive into either a book currently banned or one that examines the culture of censorship and its impact on society. Together\, we’ll challenge the limits of free expression\, reflect on the importance of diverse voices\, and discuss why certain books are under attack. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or actively seeking ideas outside your comfort zone\, each meeting offers a space for open dialogue\, critical thinking\, and a deeper understanding of the books that shape our world. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and resist! \nOur March Selection is That Librarian by Amanda Jones! \nPart memoir\, part manifesto\, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars. \nOne of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022\, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content\,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references\, discussions of racism\, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later\, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing. \nAmanda Jones has been called a groomer\, a pedo\, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white\, straight\, and “Christian.” But Amanda Jones wouldn’t give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance. \nMapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation\, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion\, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.
URL:https://www.lfy-cac.org/event/banned-book-club/
LOCATION:Cavalier House Books\, 302 A Jefferson St\, Lafayette\, LA\, 70501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,LCAC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship":MAILTO:lafcitizensagainstcensorship@gmail.com
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