"Utah's Sensitive Materials Law, originally passed in 2022 and updated in 2024, enables the state to remove on a whim any books that it deems to be inappropriate for school-age children. Unlike the musical film adaptation, which stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as frenemies-turned-friends-turned-frenemies-again Elphaba and Glinda respectively, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West does feature explicit and dark scenes including sexual assault."
"In response to the increasingly widespread banning of books in the solidly Republican state, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Utah. The filing is on behalf of the Estate of late, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death author Kurt Vonnegut, award-winning novelist Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, and Amy Reed, and two anonymous high school students."
Utah State Board of Education removed the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West from school holdings under the state's Sensitive Materials Law, citing "objective sensitive material." The Utah State Legislature defines "objective sensitive material" as content that "constitutes pornographic or indecent material." The law, passed in 2022 and updated in 2024, allows the state to remove books deemed inappropriate for school-age children. The novel contains explicit and dark scenes, including sexual assault. The ban was announced 5 January among a list of 22 titles. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit representing the Estate of Kurt Vonnegut, Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, Amy Reed, and two anonymous high school students.
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