All Dahl-ed Up and Nowhere to Go

Feminine Chaos

Kat and Phoebe discuss the greatest genderfluid fashion heist of our time. Then: the bowdlerization of Roald Dahl, the controversial banning (or is it?) of pornography (or IS it?!) from school libraries, and the illustrated dildo heard round the world.

LINKS:

Asyakhamsin brings the receipts:

Sam Brinton, they/them, deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy from June to December 2022

Kat argues that all the problematic books should go in a bonfire: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320888386112

Phoebe yes-ands and says it should be a really big bonfire: https://thecjn.ca/arts/james-and-the-unremarkably-sized-peach-phoebe-maltz-bovy-on-roald-dahl-censorship-and-antisemitism/

"And there is certainly nothing wrong with that":

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive

I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe