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Richard Price (they/them)
@advincensorship.bsky.social

Non-binary political scientist studying the censorship of queer stories and LGBTQ educational activism. Bossed around by five cats. Blog intermittently at https://adventuresincensorship.com/

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It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
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Imagine sitting in that room and this is what you come up with.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.

Do I even want to know what this is referring to?
Should pro-Trump Pakistanis be allowed to vote in American elections? This Federalist Society judge thinks so.

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Should pro-Trump Pakistanis be allowed to vote in American elections? This Federalist Society judge thinks so.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.

OMG Tank is the best name. I was thinking some mini-hippo bully and then boom, TANK!

Sitting here grading and grooving to a new jack swing playlist. So I've pretty hit the peak of coolness.

Wow. Just straight lie after lie from the gestapo.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Oh and I guess I should mention my blog that absolutely reaches far more people and has an influence much greater than academic publications. My teaching has also got a lot more fun as I've incorporated more of this work. adventuresincensorship.com
Adventures in Censorship
Political scientist who blogs about censorship and free speech issues.
adventuresincensorship.com

Now the major goal is to finally get a book contract, hopefully for the book on suppressing queer literature, and actually get that out. Then more book projects to come!

This research has lead me to places I never expected. I became something of a public records request expert for a time and now I'm a huge archive rate. I think I'm up to 24 archives visited and I can't wait to add to it.

And most recently, I wrote about how universities in the 1990s faced some straight backlash seeking to reconstitute spaces as straight only. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/10...
Publication: The Straight College Strikes Back — Adventures in Censorship
My most recent article just hit print: “The Straight College Strikes Back: 1990s Backlash Against Inclusive Campuses.” It is part of a special issue on LGBTQ Politics in Politics, Groups, and Ident...
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Censorship drew me to questions of inclusive education practices and the battle over them. I became interested in how queer educational activists sought to improve secondary and higher education. This chapter sketched some of that in terms of LGTBQ Politics courses.
Publication: Centering Schools in LGBTQ Politics — Adventures in Censorship
I have a new chapter in a collection Teaching LGBTQ Politics . Three colleagues had the idea of collecting chapters from folks addressing all kinds of elements of how to teach LGBTQ politics in hig...
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My most recent censorship piece examine the place of comics and graphic storytelling in modern book challenges. I found that only sometimes did the graphic nature mater to the challenger but it seemed to matter a lot when it did. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/7/...
Publication: Graphic Storytelling, Book Challengers, and Obscenity — Adventures in Censorship
A few weeks ago I received my copy of the new collection Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics , eds. Jorge Santos and Patrick Lawrence. This wonderful col...
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My next article was actually the first censorship piece I started writing back in March 2019. I discovered a number of challenges to trans inclusive literature and became fascinated with how they reflected antitrans politics. The paper grew and grew from there
Publication: Silencing Trans Voices — Adventures in Censorship
A new academic article just hit print: “Silencing Trans Voices” over at Politics, Groups, and Identities . I explore challenges to books by and about trans people, mostly kids and teens, in the p...
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My next was my paper that was hate written mostly in a weekend. I had discovered a rising number of challengers trying to invoke criminal obscenity laws and decided to explore both why this was and the outcomes. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2023/11...
Publication: Contesting Obscenity — Adventures in Censorship
A new academic article has hit print: “Contesting Obscenity” over at the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy . The article explores how book challengers often invoke legalized notions o...
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On the one hand I’m excited to get cool new queer history for both my work and teaching. On the other hand I have to find the time and energy to read it.

This was what I assumed but not being a person who actually practiced law I worried it was just one of those things that maybe doesn't happen. Glad my first instinct of WTF was good.
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?

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We are thrilled that reason has prevailed in Missouri and library books will be returned to the shelves!. www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles
A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.
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In 1966 the U.S. military changed college deferments so that it was lost for men in the bottom half of the class. The weight of grading in that system is terrifying. Imagine staring at your papers/exams and thinking that a C vs. B could send some 19 year old to fight in Vietnam.

Excited
In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

My partner's grandparents lived on a golf course and it was just a periodic event that one of the big windows would explode in. The development seemed to have a disaster response team on call because they were there quickly to swap the panes.

As a censorship scholar, I'm seen it all before so nothing truly surprises me. But this is still pretty amazing.
In this specific book in the kitty corn series their complaint is that the male unicorn has eyelashes and is pink (even though he’s not pink 🤔).

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In this specific book in the kitty corn series their complaint is that the male unicorn has eyelashes and is pink (even though he’s not pink 🤔).

I keep thinking about this. This was a real representation of actual dudes in the 70s and I heard shit like this in the 90s a lot.

Watching some Voyager and the Vulcan nerve pinch amuses me. Like every species has some nerve there. No one screams “hey don’t grab my testicle!”