It’s from one of a handful of passages narrated by “The Gang,” a kind of nasty locker room equivalent of a Greek chorus. Bell claims is “teaching anal sex” is a device to introduce the reader to the relentless objectification, sexualization, and harassment the female main character experiences as the one Mexican American in a white high school in 1936 East Texas. To be clear, the passage from Out of Darkness that Ms. Since the Kara Bell/Lake Travis school board video has gone viral, responses to her behavior divide pretty neatly into two categories: those mocking her outrage and skewed conclusions and those celebrating her for protecting children from “pornographic” material. (I recommend the audiobook, beautifully narrated by Benita Robledo and Lincoln Hoppe, instead.) I love experiencing literature read aloud, but hearing an agitated woman read a passage from Out of Darkness in a Texas school board meeting before launching into a loosely connected tirade about anal sex-that was not what I would have hoped for.
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