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NYTIMES Bestselling Author of All Boys Aren’t Blue. Emmy nominated Writer & Executive Producer. TIME100 Next Moat Influential People in World. AφA 06. They/Them

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Ready Banned Books 📚

08.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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AND IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE

My new book drops Fall 2026 💗

19.08.2025 17:57 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Styled by @shannonsense.bsky.social
Makeup @ Milan Garcon
Outfit @5000.lab on IG

18.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 65    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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06.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Number One Most Challenged Author" (w/ Maia Kobabe) - Fighting Words with George M. Johnson | iHeart <p>George is joined this week by writer and cartoonist Maia Kobabe, whose illustrated memoir <em>Gender Queer</em> was the most challenged book of 2021, 2022 and 2023. Maia talks about what it's like ...

I was delighted to record an episode with 2024’s most challenged author @iamgmjohnson.bsky.social (All Boys Aren’t Blue and Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known among other works). Check it out, as well as the previous episodes :D #podcastrec

www.iheart.com/podcast/867-...

05.05.2025 18:19 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much

04.05.2025 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂. My writing clothes are abysmal. 😂

03.05.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My look on msnbc. Happy Saturday. 💗💗💗

03.05.2025 19:49 — 👍 78    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 1
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Velshi Banned Book Club: Revisiting ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ by George M. Johnson “All Boys Aren’t Blue” hit two major milestones this month. One is an anniversary: the novel turned five years old. Five remarkable years of inspiring writers, creating empathy, and giving readers that safe place to land. The other is grimmer. According to the American Library Association, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was the single most banned work of literature in America last year. It isn’t an honor. It isn’t a selling mechanism. It is a tragedy. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has become more than just a power story or a beautiful work of literature – it’s become a symbol, representative of free speech, of access to literature, and of resistance. In five years, Johnson has become one of the most important voices in the fight against censorship. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has gone from a remarkable debut memoir to one of the most critical works of literature in the contemporary American canon. The sort of book that imparts a different lesson onto you every single time you reread it. “There are days that are heavier than others,” says Johnson, “but it’s the messages I get from so many people that have been saved by the texts.” The attacks and band “could have stopped me from writing…But it didn’t.”

@iamgmjohnson.bsky.social author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is prepared to fight for their book, books everywhere, & all readers. The banning & the commentary won’t stop them. “I am built with a different type of will & a different type of ancestor watching over me.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

03.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 41    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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Velshi Banned Book Club: Revisiting ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ by George M. Johnson “All Boys Aren’t Blue” hit two major milestones this month. One is an anniversary: the novel turned five years old. Five remarkable years of inspiring writers, creating empathy, and giving readers that safe place to land. The other is grimmer. According to the American Library Association, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was the single most banned work of literature in America last year. It isn’t an honor. It isn’t a selling mechanism. It is a tragedy. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has become more than just a power story or a beautiful work of literature – it’s become a symbol, representative of free speech, of access to literature, and of resistance. In five years, Johnson has become one of the most important voices in the fight against censorship. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has gone from a remarkable debut memoir to one of the most critical works of literature in the contemporary American canon. The sort of book that imparts a different lesson onto you every single time you reread it. “There are days that are heavier than others,” says Johnson, “but it’s the messages I get from so many people that have been saved by the texts.” The attacks and band “could have stopped me from writing…But it didn’t.”

@iamgmjohnson.bsky.social author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is prepared to fight for their book, books everywhere, & all readers. The banning & the commentary won’t stop them. “I am built with a different type of will & a different type of ancestor watching over me.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

03.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 156    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 1
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Velshi Banned Book Club: Revisiting ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ by George M. Johnson “All Boys Aren’t Blue” hit two major milestones this month. One is an anniversary: the novel turned five years old. Five remarkable years of inspiring writers, creating empathy, and giving readers that safe place to land. The other is grimmer. According to the American Library Association, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was the single most banned work of literature in America last year. It isn’t an honor. It isn’t a selling mechanism. It is a tragedy. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has become more than just a power story or a beautiful work of literature – it’s become a symbol, representative of free speech, of access to literature, and of resistance. In five years, Johnson has become one of the most important voices in the fight against censorship. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has gone from a remarkable debut memoir to one of the most critical works of literature in the contemporary American canon. The sort of book that imparts a different lesson onto you every single time you reread it. “There are days that are heavier than others,” says Johnson, “but it’s the messages I get from so many people that have been saved by the texts.” The attacks and band “could have stopped me from writing…But it didn’t.”

@iamgmjohnson.bsky.social author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is prepared to fight for their book, books everywhere, & all readers. The banning & the commentary won’t stop them. “I am built with a different type of will & a different type of ancestor watching over me.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

03.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 58    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

Thank you 🙏🏽

03.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ll be on MSNBC today!

03.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Keep up the fight. This is something that we must all do. #DisarmHate

02.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Book bans are anathema to a healthy society. BUY the banned books!!

02.05.2025 15:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you 🙏🏽

01.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A book held in a hand: George M Johnson - All Boys Aren’t Blue

A book held in a hand: George M Johnson - All Boys Aren’t Blue

George M Johnson - All Boys Aren’t Blue (2020)
Johnson describes this as ‘memoir manifesto’. It’s the story of a queer black boy growing up in New Jersey.
It’s currently the most banned & challenged book in the USA which makes it more vital than ever to be read & shared.
@iamgmjohnson.bsky.social

01.05.2025 08:15 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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People have been asking how can we get involved in the fight against book bans. Here are ways to help.

30.04.2025 16:37 — 👍 55    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 1

If you haven't read this book yet, I recommend it.

Take a moment to consider a viewpoint other than your own. Learn empathy, eschew hatred.

29.04.2025 01:49 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Yes this is the one

29.04.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you I appreciate it. Yes we will 🙏🏽

29.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you 🙏🏽

29.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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29.04.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A powerful message from past #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @iamgmjohnson.bsky.social

28.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🙏🏽🙏🏽

28.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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28.04.2025 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy anniversary to “All Boys Aren’t Blue”, an important piece in the Queer canon.

28.04.2025 19:06 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

#ReadBannedBooks #BannedBooks #BlackBookSky

28.04.2025 19:28 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

One of my all time favorite books that, along with GenderQueer, inspired me to fight my school board over 💙

28.04.2025 18:55 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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