Students at a North Texas high school have started a group to read and discuss books that are commonly challenged in Texas and include sexual content.

Two junior students at Carroll Senior High School, Megha Kadiyala and Srishthi Das, launched an after-school group called “The Unlocked Library,” according to WFAA. The students said the group is needed to ensure students receive an “inclusive” education. The book club first met on Monday.

“We are passionate about these books. We have plenty of students who want these books on campus,” Kadiyala told WFAA. “Not having access to books like this as a student, it does a lot to not see yourself at your school.” 

“To have people censor the things I read really hurt,” Das told WFAA.

Texas had 93 challenges to libraries last year over 2,349 different books, according to a study by the American Library Association — the largest total in the nation by a large margin. The top two books challenged in the Lone Star State were Gender Queer: A Memoir and All Boys Aren’t Blue, which includes descriptions of oral and anal sex, as reported by The Dallas Express.

Gender Queer has been the source of much contention at multiple local school board meetings as concerned members of the community voice their objections to its sexual content.

For instance, a resident of Dallas ISD has appeared before the district’s school board on more than one occasion to discuss the book being unsuitable for school libraries.

As Cyrena Nolan previously told The Dallas Express, “I felt it was totally inappropriate. It deals with sex toys and things like that, and [the fact that it could] get into an 11-year-old’s hands — it shocked me.”

Both Gender Queer and All Boys Aren’t Blue will be read by the Carroll Senior High School book club, according to WFAA.

Nick Ferrara, a member of the book club, said the book club shows students want to have control over their own education.

“I felt kind of powerless, like our decisions were being made for us of what we could learn, read,” Ferrara told WFAA.

The first book to be read by the group is Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The book details incest, pedophilia, and descriptions of characters’ masturbation and intercourse preferences, according to Squeaky Clean Reviews.