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IN A QUEER TIME & PLACE

JUDITH HALBERSTAM

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IN A QUEER TIME & PLACE is a book by JUDITH HALBERSTAM. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

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About the work

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IN A QUEER TIME & PLACE is a book by JUDITH HALBERSTAM. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Texas. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 131 SEXUALLY. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

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Why it was banned

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IN A QUEER TIME & PLACE entered censorship debates as a book associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2014-06-19 in Texas, where Texas corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 131 SEXUALLY. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 131 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGE

This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

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Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2014-06-19 Texas excluded from prison circulation The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 131 SEXUALLY. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 131 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGE

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