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====Date: [[:Category:2001|2001]]====
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|year=2017
|region=North America
|artist=Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, Shelagh McNicholas,
|subject=Sexual/Gender Orientation
|confronting_bodies=Rocklin Academy School Board (CA), California Family Council, the Capitol Resource Institute and the Pacific Justice Institute
|medium=Literature
|date_of_action=Fall 2017
|location=Rocklin, California
|description_of_content='I Am Jazz' is a critically acclaimed children's picture book by author Jessica Herthel co-written with Jazz Jennings, with illustrations by Shelagh McNicholas, about a transgender girl. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.
|description_of_incident=In spring 2017, a transitioning kindergartner at the Rocklin Academy, California, selected Jessica Herthel’s 'I Am Jazz' as her choice for story time reading. The children’s book tells the story of real life transgender activist Jazz Jennings who struggles with having “a girl brain but a boy body.” Parents who considered the topic of gender identity too sensitive for kindergartners were distressed they had not been notified about the reading in advance. Some even threatened to sue.
|description_of_result=9/15/2017- The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and 4 other organizations (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Authors Guild, National Council of Teachers of English and the Association of American Publishers) wrote a letter expressing concern that Rocklin school board was reconsidering their literature policy following the controversy. The groups urged the board to reject subsequent calls to restrict books that can be read in classrooms. The groups’ argued that in allowing reading of the book, Rocklin Academy lived up to California educational standards, which promote broad cultural literacy. The letter underlines that a decision to restrict books that cover certain subject matter, such as gender identity, will cast a negative light on that material regardless of its educational value. The board reviewed its literature policy on September 18th and voted unanimously to retain the policies that allow the book to be read in kindergarten. They adopted a provision to forewarn parents of potentially controversial subject matter.
|image=I Am Jazz.jpg
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http://www.jessicaherthel.com/#jazz


[http://www.kcra.com/article/rocklin-school-addresses-transgender-book-controversy/12267676 Rocklin school addresses transgender book controversy], Sep 18, 2017
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====


[http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article174072431.html Rocklin charter schools OK transgender books in elementary school], SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]]====


Letter:
====Medium: [[:Category:Painting|Painting]]====
http://ncac.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KRRP-Letter-to-Rocklin-Academy-Board-copy.pdf
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[[File:Ferguson2.jpg|left]]
'''Artist:''' Laura Ferguson
 
'''Confronting Bodies:''' The U.S. Senate Rules Committee
 
'''Dates of Action:''' April 2001
 
'''Location:''' ''eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art'' Exhibition, Rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., The United States of America
 
'''Description of Artwork:''' Ferguson's paintings depict nude female bodies with their skeletal systems showing through. The artist's work is an attempt to deal with her own disability: scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. Ferguson draws her own body's skeletal system (based on X rays, MRIs and 3D scans) on paper previously treated with oil paints and bronze powders. None of the censored paintings contained full frontal nudity.
[[File:Ferguson.jpg|right]]
'''The Incident:''' The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons organized a large-scale traveling exhibition, which included works by artists with orthopaedic conditions. A selection of works was to be displayed in the rotunda of the Senate Office Building in D.C. A number of Ferguson's paintings, which had also been featured on the exhibition's publicity materials, were among those selected. The Senate Rules Committee rejected Ferguson's art claiming, initially and officially, that there wasn't enough space. Eventually, Tamara Somerville, staff director for Senate Rules Committee Chairman Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted that Ferguson's paintings were censored because they featured nudity.
 
'''Results of Incident:''' The AAOS removed the exhibit from the Senate in its entirety and found an alternative venue for it: Southwest Washington's Millennium Arts Center.
 
'''Source:''' NCAC. Additional information: Washington Post, Laura Ferguson Web Site (http://www.etaoin.com/fer0.htm)
 
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