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Department of Defense Educational Activitity

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Banned Books

#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism #BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights 10,000 Dresses 10,000 Dresses 19 Love Songs 19 Love Songs 50 Queers Who Changed the World 50 Queers Who Changed the World A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance A is for Activist A is for Activist A Million Quiet Revolutions A Million Quiet Revolutions A Queer History of the United States A Queer History of the United States A Queer History of the United States for Young People A Queer History of the United States for Young People A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns Afterglow Afterglow Airlock Airlock Alex As Well Alex As Well Alice Austen Lived Here Alice Austen Lived Here All Boys Aren't Blue All Boys Aren't Blue All Kinds of Other All Kinds of Other All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages Almost Perfect Almost Perfect An African American and Latinx History of the United States An African American and Latinx History of the United States Anything But Fine Anything But Fine Baby Drag Queen Baby Drag Queen Beast Beast Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Being Transgender in America Being Transgender in America Between the World and Me Between the World and Me Beyond Magenta Beyond Magenta Beyond the Gender Binary Beyond the Gender Binary Birthday Birthday Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter Blood Sport Blood Sport Born Ready Born Ready Both Sides Now Both Sides Now Calvin Calvin Camp Camp Camp QUILTBAG Camp QUILTBAG Cemetery Boys Cemetery Boys Challenges for LGBTQ Teens Challenges for LGBTQ Teens Coming out as transgender Coming out as transgender Dear Mothman Dear Mothman Desert Queen Desert Queen Discrimination Discrimination Dragging Mason County Dragging Mason County Ellen Outside the Lines Ellen Outside the Lines Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Gender Identities Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Gender Identities Felix Ever After Felix Ever After Flight of the Puffin Flight of the Puffin

About Department of Defense Education Activity

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a federal school system operated by the U.S. Department of Defense, serving the children of military service members and DoD civilian employees. Unlike traditional public school districts organized around a single state or county, DoDEA operates schools both domestically, on U.S. military installations, and overseas, at bases in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Because its student population is drawn from military families who often relocate frequently, DoDEA functions as a single, centrally administered system rather than a collection of locally governed districts, with curriculum and library policy decisions made at the national level rather than by local school boards.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 581 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within DoDEA schools, a scale of activity that places it among the more heavily affected districts in this database, notably higher than most single-state public school districts tracked here. Because DoDEA is a federal system rather than a state-chartered one, its policies have often been shaped less by state-level legislation than by Department of Defense directives and Pentagon-level review guidance affecting schools across its worldwide network. Given DoDEA's connection to military communities, its book removals have drawn coverage from outlets that focus on military and veteran affairs, including Military.com (report), which has reported on how these decisions have affected students and families at DoD schools. As with other districts in this tracker, the titles affected are listed separately on this page.