UU Can’t Ban My Books: A Virtual Book Club

4th Tuesdays

6:30 PM

In-Person OR on Zoom

ALL AGES

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of each month on Zoom for UU Can’t Ban My Books, a virtual book club hosted by the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria. We’ll read and discuss young adult books that have been banned or challenged in parts of the U.S.—books that spark meaningful conversations around social justice, identity, and the values we hold dear as Unitarian Universalists. Come ready to read courageously, reflect deeply, and stand up for the stories that matter. Books are available locally at Lit on Fire, online at bookshop.org/shop/UUCP, for free at your local library, and at many more locations. 

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of “wrong” ideas.”

— Kindred, by Octavia Butler

August’s selection is Kindred, by Octavia Butler.  The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. This book has been banned due to its topics of slavery, racial identity and brutality.

Future titles include:

Sep 23rd – Gender Queer, by Maia Kobab

Oct 28th – Crank, By Ellen Hopkins

Nov 25th – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, By Sherman Alexie