Oddly, people are mostly complaining about things that have little to do with being transgender. On what some people are objecting to in her book Banned is the actual removal of the book. When you're challenged, a person, a parent, whoever goes to the school and fills out a form saying this book should not be in your library. Well, banned and challenged are two different points. On what it means to have a book banned vs. Vilified because of who these people are. And my whole for doing this point was to start a conversation to bring humanity to the page, to show some empathy, to just be able to broaden ourselves.
here are these kids whose main reason was to. And that's the point of all my books that people are people and they do some crazy things, some negative things, some positive things, and that's who we are.
Because very quickly, once I got to know people, it became totally irrelevant. And I thought, are we hard wired to believe this? And so I went on a quest to find out if indeed we were hard wired. It just felt strange to me and I thought, why should it feel strange to me? Would I be speaking differently to a man than to a woman? It just didn't sit right. I was uncomfortable, when I didn't know what the sex of the person was. When I was talking to various people about whether or not I should be doing the book and what are some of the issues that needed to be addressed. The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. Beyond Magenta, published in 2014, has been on the American Library Association's (ALA) list of most books most often challenged a number of times since 2015, cited for "for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit." Kuklin's work often focuses on human rights issues she has written about topics ranging from immigration to the AIDS epidemic. They describe their experiences transitioning and reflect on their identities. The stories these teens tell are raw and heartfelt. The book compiles Kuklin's photos of - and interviews with - transgender and nonbinary teens and young adults. The book is banned from school library shelves in 11 school districts in the U.S. Writer and photographer Susan Kuklin is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out.
This discussion with Susan Kuklin is part of a series of interviews with - and essays by - authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.
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