Black nonbinary memoirist George M. Johnson (they/them) will visit the DePaul Lincoln Park Campus on Thursday, March 2nd to read from, and talk about, their memoir All Boys Aren't Blue and speak to a panel of faculty, staff, and students about the current wave of right-wing book censorship in the US. All Boys Aren't Blue—about Black queer coming of age, family, and the importance of speaking your truth—has been targeted for banning in schools and libraries in over 21 states and was the 3rd most banned book in the US last year

This event includes a Q&A panel with: Heather Montes-Ireland, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies; Macky Sahelu, undergraduate and staff at the LGBTQIA+ Resource Center; Lauren Roundtree, MA student in Women and Gender Studies; and Heather Jagman, DPU librarian and current President of the Illinois Library Association.

Presented by The LGBTQ Studies Program at DePaul, in association with the Department of English and cohosted by: the Program in American Studies; the Center for Latino Research; the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; the College of Communication; the School of Continuing and Professional Studies; the Critical Ethnic Studies Program; the DePaul University Library; the University Honors Program; the DePaul Humanities Center; the LGBTQIA+ Resource Center; the Department of Women & Gender Studies; the Women's Center; the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse. This event is also made possible by support from a Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Grant (DIIG) from the Office of Academic Affairs and a Vincentian Endowment Fund Discretionary Grant from the Division of Mission and Ministry.