Story Eight: Preserving all voices

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Works by members of marginalized communities, almost by definition, are likely to be uncommon. Here are two volumes of creative work by members of marginalized ethnic and gender communities.

Baraka, Amiri. The Baptism & the Toilet. New York: Grove, 1969.

Holoch, Naomi, and Joan Nestle. Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction. New York: Plume, 1993.