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Banned Books: Events at Gateway

Banned Books Week Activities at Gateway
September 22-28

Banned Book Read-in Event

September 23 • 12:30-1:30 p.m. Racine Campus - Student Life Center, Garden Room
Kenosha Campus Watch Party via Zoom - Library
Elkhorn Campus Watch Party via Zoom - Library

Come and be a part of our 2nd annual Banned Books Read-In as a reader or a listener. We will celebrate Gateway Redhawk voices as they share aloud passages from their favorite banned or challenged books.

You are welcome to be an attendee without reading.

What to expect? In increments of 5 mins (or less), readers will read text from books such as Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Perks of Being a Wallflower, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Fault in Our Stars, Catcher in The Rye, and others. 

First 5 Reader-Registrants (staff, faculty, or students) will receive a canvas tote bag with our original Banned Book design, a Paperwhite Kindle, and a copy of Ian Rosenberg's book, The Fight for Free Speech.

All are welcome to attend. 

Guest Speaker - Author Ian Rosenberg

Sebook cover for The Fight for Free SpeechpteIan Rosenberg publicity imagember 24 • 11 a.m.-12 p.m. • Zoom

Media lawyer and author Ian Rosenberg will be joining us to talk about book bans and free speech law. He will discuss the key Supreme Court library censorship case (Island Trees School District v. Pico), and his own recent experiences with having one of his books challenged. A question and answer session will follow.

Rosenberg has over twenty years of experience as a media lawyer, and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003. He graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and magna cum laude from Cornell Law School. Rosenberg is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and teaches media law at Brooklyn College. He is the author of The Fight for Free Speech (NYU Press, 2021) and Free Speech Handbook (Macmillan, 2021). His next book, Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: Dominion v. Fox and the Future of Democracy will be published by NYU Press in 2025. He lives in New York with his wife and their two children.

All are welcome to attend. No reservation is required.

www.thefightforfreespeech.com
www.freespeechhandbook.com
Free Speech Guides by Ian Rosenberg     

Crafting Extravaganzaexample image of the banned book designs on tshirts

September 26 • 10 a.m.-12 p.m. • Racine Campus, Garden Room
September 26 • 2- 4 p.m. • Kenosha Campus, Atrium

Enjoy light refreshments while making buttons, magnets and silkscreen materials inspired by your support of keeping literature free from banning. Button, magnet-making materials and silkscreen images will be provided. Students are asked to bring whatever item(s) they would like to have the “READ BANNED BOOKS” image silkscreened onto.

All are welcome to participate. No registration is required.

To request disability accommodation or accessibility assistance, contact Josh Vollendorf at 262-564-3062, Wisconsin Relay 711, or email compliance@gtc.edu.