Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill.
A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on Tuesday afternoon. Video captured in the afternoon showed a vehicle driving away with the books before students were notified. In the past, students were given an opportunity to purchase books that were leaving the college’s library collection.
Some discarded books included “Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate”, “The War of the Worlds” and “When I Knew,” which is a collection of stories from LGBTQ+ people recounting when they knew they were gay. Several books from the GDC were retrienved by local activists before they could be taken for disposal.
hmmm, this rings a bell… 🤔
Oh yeah:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
Dang what a perfect reference. I only first heard about the institute a few months ago. Folks please go and read OC’s link.
Holy smokes! That’s a fascinating read, yet terrifying. So much lost to the actual Nazis.
That’s literally why people think being trans is something new. Nearly all the research in the world on the topic was lost in the Nazi book burnings
I don’t love a cis man playing a trans woman, but if you want to learn more, the movie The Danish Girl tells the story of the first trans woman to have sex reassignment surgery, which happened there.
The books are going to a landfill…might be a great place to pick up some free books to donate to libraries that may want them, idk…just an idea…