And just in Florida and just with our governor and our elected legislators, this is what's different. JUDY BLUME: Well, you know, I live in Key West, and even though we like to pretend that Key West is not in the state of Florida, it is. Can you talk about that a little bit, about the difference from your point of view? And you've said it's different now because now it's the government doing some of the censoring. So I want to ask you, you know, you first experienced censorship in the 1980s after Ronald Reagan was elected and the Moral Majority and the Christian right, which had supported Reagan, were very politically empowered. Congratulations on the new film adaptation of "Margaret" and of all the other adaptations in the works.
She and her husband co-founded a nonprofit bookstore in Key West, where there's a section devoted to banned books. Florida is also known for banning many books from school libraries, including Blume's. Her state is the home of the Stop Woke Act and what's become known as the Don't Say Gay law. Blume lives with her husband in Key West, Fla. A Netflix series reimagining Blume's novel "Forever." is in the works, and Peacock is planning to produce an adaptation of "Summer Sisters," one of Blume's novels for adults. The American Library Association has consistently placed Blume on its list of most frequently banned authors, but the people banning her books can't ban the new film adaptation of her novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.," which opens on Friday. Her 1975 book "Forever." about a senior in high school who falls in love with a boy, they have a sexual relationship, pledge to be together forever until she realizes she's not ready to commit to forever - that was banned in many places, too, as was her novel "Deenie" about a teenager diagnosed with scoliosis who has to wear a brace because that book mentioned that she'd discovered a special place in her body that gave her pleasure.
Her 1970 book, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." was banned because it was about an 11-year-old girl worried that all the other girls were getting their period, developing breasts and starting to wear bras, but she wasn't. In the '70s, her novels for preteens and teens were bestsellers, but she also became famous for being banned. A new documentary streaming on Prime Video called "Judy Blume Forever" tells the story of how she went from suburban homemaker and mother to literary phenomenon.
Judy Blume decided to stop writing after the publication of her 2015 novel "In The Unlikely Event." But she's still a big part of pop culture.
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