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An iconic UK bookstore is offering visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter books for 25 pence. The Bookish Type, the trans-owned bookstore in Leeds running the promotion, will donate all proceeds to gender-affirming healthcare costs. Good fundraising idea or bad messaging? 🤔

This is art. It's activism, it's demonstration. And the money goes to a good cause. So good all around.

it's not that, like, astral nazi particles are created whenever anybody of any social status or authority fucks with any book.

This ^ sounds like a great fundraiser, especially if it's a used copy that was donated or picked up cheap. Depending on edition, this title has between 250-400 pages. Which means excluding stuff like title page, publisher info, flyleaves, etc, this fundraiser is making MINIMUM £60 for gender-affirming healthcare. Maybe £55 if the book was purchased specifically for this fundraiser.

I saw numerous books of all types, most of them - if they were sound of binding and decent of page quality - I sorted into the correct genre box without more than a glance. I always checked the publication date of any medical or child-care books, though, and anything older than five years went straight in the bin. They're both fields where what we know is growing and changing very rapidly, and also where the wrong information could ruin or even end a person's life. It was genuinely more responsible to destroy those books than to risk letting them wind up in the hands of someone who wouldn't realize they'd need to fact-check the contents for safety.

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