Margaret Atwood is taking intention at Alberta’s controversial ban on faculty library books containing sexual content material with a brand new, satirical brief story after the famed creator’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was yanked from some cabinets because of the province’s sweeping new guidelines.
In a social media publish on Sunday, Atwood stated because the literary basic is not appropriate in Alberta’s colleges, she has written a brief story for 17-year olds about two “very, very good children” named John and Mary.
“They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits,” she stated to start with of her story.
“They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex.”
Atwood stated the duo paid no consideration to the poor and “forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism.”
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Atwood goes on to say that the duo by no means die as a result of “who wants to dwell” and so they lived fortunately ever after.
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“But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and (Premier) Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job,” she stated.
“The end.”
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Final week, the Edmonton Public Faculty Board, one among Alberta’s largest, introduced it was yanking greater than 200 books from its colleges this yr to adjust to a July order by Alberta’s schooling ministry to take away books from faculty libraries that carry “materials containing explicit sexual content” by Oct. 1.
The board’s listing of books it was eradicating gave the primary glimpse of the results of Alberta’s e book ban in colleges.
The listing additionally included Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” and books by authors like Alice Munro and Ayn Rand.
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On Friday, Smith stated Edmonton’s public faculty board had gone excessive in complying with the ban and the division’s listing is a type of “vicious compliance.”
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Public Faculty Board chair Julie Kusiek, in an announcement, stated the listing meets the factors set out by the federal government and anybody sad with it ought to contact Alberta Schooling Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.
Different faculty divisions are anticipated to give you lists within the coming days.
Smith has steered Alberta’s schooling ministry may kind a working group to work with faculty boards and undergo books to debate if the content material is acceptable.
Atwood, Smith and Alberta’s schooling ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Atwood’s brief story on Sunday.
