San Antonio author reacts to books like hers being under review

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Author Anel Flores says students convey her for the book

Anel Flores gives her instrumentality connected whether definite books are due for students to read.

SAN ANTONIO – Anel Flores, a San Antonio writer and erstwhile teacher, said concerns implicit whether students should work definite books successful schoolhouse libraries are successful effect to writers similar herself.

“They’re frightened however astonishing and almighty and agreed we are,” Flores said.

“Empanada, A Lesbiana Story successful Probaditas” oregon “little tastes,” was primitively a play.

Flores said her publication that was published successful 2012 is present successful respective San Antonio mediate schoolhouse and precocious schoolhouse libraries, arsenic good arsenic astatine UTSA and the San Antonio Public Library.

Hers is not connected the database of books being reviewed by the Northeast Independent School District or among the 850 titles listed by State Representative Matt Krause of Fort Worth, astir being race- and LGBTQ-related books.

Although her publication has ne'er been “officially banned,” Flores said she’d gotten reactions similar the 1 by a section assemblage erstwhile she asked to bash a speechmaking from her book.

Flores said she was told, “Oh, well, it’s not appropriate. We person kids coming to this.”

In response, Flores said, “How bash you cognize that a publication with the connection lesbian successful it is not appropriate? You don’t cognize that.”

“This is simply a emotion communicative astir my ‘gente’ and my people, being Chicana and besides being lesbian,” Flores said.

Flores said aft speechmaking her book, “The 1 queer pupil oregon the 2 queer students get up and accidental convey you to me. They bash that successful beforehand of everybody.”

She said it’s besides kept others from committing suicide.

“It’s important that we person brownish and achromatic and queer and marginalized, silenced voices successful our lit truthful children tin consciousness similar they beryllium somewhere,” Flores said.

Hear Flores work an excerpt from her publication successful the video below:

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