#IStandwithJKRowling

This blog is for fans of Ms. Rowling. This blog is pro-Joanne Rowling. No negativity please. This blog will contain all posts related to JK Rowling (memes, interviews, Harry Potter, Strike, Casual Vacancy, screenplays, etc.)                   (Note: If you're a HP/Strike blog and I follow you, I'm not doing so to start arguments with you about Jo herself but just following you for the HP/Strike content. Also you can disagree/agree/have no opinion about JKR outside of her work and still love what you love. If you have questions about why I support JKR's feminist stance please read her essay first and then check out my tag "jkr article" or ask a question respectfully)

[joannerowlingfans]

Is JK Rowling a bigot?

The dictionary definition of bigot is “a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.”

Yet according to many on social media, someone who tweeted: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?” is a bigot.

intolerance is now the same as “dress however you please”

intolerance is now the same as “call yourself what you like”

intolerance is now the same as “sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you” 

intolerance is now the same as “live your best life in peace and security”

it is not bigoted to want to question an ideology. It is not bigoted to know that a woman is an adult human female and a man is an adult human male. These are facts we have known for decades. Remember that Galileo was accused of heresy. Words have meanings. It is not bigoted to want to have an open conversation about gender and sex. It is not bigoted to disagree. 

[naliya]

Also, regardless or what any one person might legitimately think of JK Rowling,, which is not the subject of this post.

The amount of vitriol aimed at her and her work to diminish her accomplishments and devalue her work when compared to what is leveled at any men (take your pick really), is telling.

Nobody is trying to retroactively claim that any movie ever produced by Weinstein was actually a dud, or that The Pianist has no cinematic value despite Polanski being an actual child rapist, or that if you still enjoy Toy Story you're stupid because it was actually "bad all along" despite Lasseter being... well who he is. No.

People are not trying to pretend any piece of media ever produced by "bad men" were actually never any good. Or not to the extend I'm seeing it happen with JKR and Harry Potter in any case...

Gee... I wonder why that is... Not really.

[naliya]

While I'm on the subject of JK Rowling, I want to add that this pervasive idea floating around that "no one asked her" or "she's just cash grabbing, she needs to stop talking!" each time she adds something to her world or write something new within it, is just as cringy and idiotic as other type of vitriol leveled at her.

First because, again, no one levels that kind of bullshit at other creators. No one is crying foul about Pullman writing within the HDM universe, nor at GRRM for writing side projects within ASOIF before even finishing the main story (granted, he does get criticisms for not writing the end at all, but that's a legitimate thing to say, the vitriol isn't about him writing something else and expending per see which makes a difference here). Others are allowed to expend, to add, even to sell their intellectual property to big studios to plunder without much criticism, but god forbid JKR says Hermione loved math in middle school on Twitter. They act like for her to be legitimate as "HP's owner" she must be perfect and needs to ask "permission" before having fun with it just for the sake of it. I've never seen any other creator treated that way to THAT extent, and if I'm wrong, please show it to me, but I don't think you'll be able to.

Secondly because in what God forsaken universe do you live in where this Fandom DIDN'T ask? We did ask. We did nothing but ask! Are you all zoomers who didn't grow up during the madness or do you have that much of a short term memory?

Back in 2007 after DH was published, people kept asking her over and over again; "Please Jo write Hogwarts: A History", "I hope she does a Marauders prequel!", "Jo, what is Neville's wand core?", "it would be so cool to know what the next Gen is up to" and so on and so forth. This is why Pottermore originally became a thing in the first place, a website which she labeled a gift to the readers at the start and where she released the unpublished material that didn't make it into the novels for FREE.

But now that you don't like everything that she's said and that it doesn't entirely conform to your imagination, ideas and American-centred calvinist politics, you're acting like toddlers throwing temper tantrums for not getting exactly what you want?

A bunch of you are acting so entitled it's not even funny, JK Rowling is one of the huge reason why Fandom culture is allowed to be what it is today, she's was one of the first big name authors to publicly say that people should be allowed to play in her sandbox, with the toys she brought in, even actively encouraged it. But now here you are acting like you own the sandbox and she ought to ask you before participating if she wants to.

Honestly grow up and move on. Your vitriol is exhausting and immature.

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

The war against JK Rowling: How one woman became a hate figure in the debate on gender and sex

The Harry Potter author has become shorthand for so-called terfdom in the increasingly bitter debate over sex, gender and trans rights. It i

”The rage against Rowling is actually rage against her for being a woman who has not politely faded into the background, but who has instead asserted her voice and her boundaries. That is what is specifically infuriating about her – and it’s why one of the favoured tactics from her attackers was to reply to her tweets with images of pornography.

The sexual nature of the violation was not accidental. But Rowling has not buckled under the abuse. She is, for now, the inadvertent figurehead of a highly contentious issue; but she is too much her own woman to be reduced to a caricature by anyone.”

[joannerowlingfans]

The Rowling Library posted the virtual event for The Christmas Pig on YouTube.

[societyforprotectingeverywoman]

A simple graphic proving that J.K. Rowling is an evil bigot!!1!

[liifafaa-deactivated20230901]

indeed corm, indeed

[thegreendress]

The Ink Black Heart moodboard 🖤

[hpottah]

Great Hall - Christmas 1992

[sweetsappho]

biological sex means “this baby has a vagina”, gender means adding “so I’m gonna wrap her in a pink blanket”

[joannerowlingfans]

Interesting to read this post by Louise Freeman about Tournament of Houses. Has anyone been watching? 

[shybearart]

“Yer a wizard, Harry.”

art by shy

[moonstonetombstone]

Happy Birthday JK Rowling 💚🤍💜

[joannerowlingfans]

The Christmas Pig: A Virtual Event with J.K. Rowling & Friends

Bestselling author, J.K Rowling sits down with a group of students to chat about her latest enchanting novel, the meaning of hope, and the spirit of giving i...

Virtual event with JKR on the 8th of December. 

[joannerowlingfans]

[joannerowlingfans]

[joannerowlingfans]

as a trans person, it is nice to see someone with a bit of sense in them. JKR isn't a transphobe.

Thank you for this message. She certainly isn't.

[thesefilespod]

We're back this week for an episode covering the another set of chapters you all have been waiting for...the final chapters of Troubled Blood, 72 and 73. We're also joined by our lovely friend Clara of the Denmark Street Deep Dive podcast as we discuss the implications of the discussion of perfume in Liberty, the meaning behind the Anna Karenina reference in the closing lines, as well as much, much more!

Following this episode, we will have a book 6 predictions episode where we will read and discuss some of our favorite theories for the next Strike book, as well as a blooper episode containing outtakes that didn't make the final cut of this season's episodes, all released on our normal schedule. We will then begin our reread of The Cuckoo's Calling in January.

Thank you so much to all of our listeners for supporting us!

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