In this edition of Notes From an Average Girl, senior staff writer Madeline Milchman writes about book banning.

It doesn’t matter if you are reading the political philosophy of a minority group or raunchy erotica — having access to books and having the ability to read them will always be political. It is a giant “screw you” to people who want to take away your access to information, to your ability to imagine and learn about other perspectives outside your own.

All book censorship is wrong, even when it promotes “inclusion.”