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.
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.
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…
My brother called me a fear monger when I openly called Trump a fascist the first time around. Look who’s getting the last laugh now :/
I guess Trump needed the exercise trashing all these books… apparently
I was employed at this awesome little school but left before Desantis’s stupid anti-woke and DEI crusade. I hope it and the current students/employees don’t suffer too much. I doubt Desantis gets voted out…
He’s term-limited I think.
I’m a Floridian from birth, thankfully living in blue AF Chicago nowadays and my heart breaks for these kids. New College was a proud bastion of free-thinking opposition to the right wing tide that Florida has calcified into. This is the party of “small government” - fuck you Ron DeSantis ya 5’4 (BOOT HEEL BUFF patch nerfed ) insecure charisma void
Where one burns books one eventually burns people
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