In this episode of Matters of Consequence, Michael Hanf speaks with Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author and co-founder of Authors Against Book Bans.

Maggie is an author of children’s and young adult novels. In 2023, she was asked by a publisher to quietly change her work to make it more “acceptable”. She said no, and she said it publicly.

What followed was not a short or contained moment. It brought visibility, backlash, fear, and a much larger responsibility than she expected. Maggie put much of her own writing aside and became deeply involved in fighting book bans and censorship.

In this episode they talk about what it means to stay with a decision once the cost keeps unfolding, how her understanding of being an author has changed, and when writing stops being enough.

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