#jk rowling

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: No More Rights

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: apparently amnessty international ssayss i'm anti-rightss Rowling: how dare they! Rowling: i'm going to take away their right to ssay that

Rowling: can you believe that amnesssty would dare ssspeak againssst me? Kathleen Stock: a grave injustice, dark lord Rowling: they sssay that i'm anti-rightsss! Rowling: i'm actually very big on rightsss Rowling: i jusst think only i should have them Stock: a reasonable request, dark lord

Rowling: well well well Rowling: nice little human rightss watchdog organization you got here Rowling: would be a real shame if ssomething happened to it

Rowling: look, if thossse transss wanted to have rightsss Rowling: they should have gone about doing it the proper way Rowling: by becoming a besst sselling billionaire childrenss author with a globe sspanning media empire Rowling: i mean, it worked for me

Rowling: i'm going to sssue amnessty into the ground! Rowling: when i'm done, there will be nothing left but a big sssmoking crater in the ground Rowling: i will dessstroy them! Rowling: human rights, bah!! Rowling: I'm JK fucking rowling!!! Rowling: i'm a beloved national treassssure!!!

Rowling: you'll be hearing from my lawyer, amnesssty! Allison Bailey: i advise my client to -whoops!!! [trips, spills spaghetti all over the floor] Bailey: it's fine Bailey: this is not a problem Bailey: i'll just clean this Bailey: i'm cleaning it up Bailey: jeez there's a lot of sauce

Rowling: that'ss fine, i ssstill have complete confidence in allisson bailey Rowling: here, take thiss extra money Rowling: that'll fix thiss Bailey: thanks, i -- whoa! [trips again, spills spaghetti again] Rowling: Rowling: sssssigh Rowling: ok i'm jusst gonna write a check

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[icarusesdickarus]

inshallah jk rowling loses her fortune and all her hateful deeds are returned to her x10

[geek-ramblings]

She fully didn't watch the segment because Jon did a very nuanced, thoughtful segment. He drilled down to kids just wanting to have a community and have fun.

What these TERFS are pissed off about is that he showed how disingenuous y'all are when you go "omg that trans athlete hit a ball really hard and it hurt a cis women" because when you look into it cis women even on their team hit harder then them. Because he pointed out that cis girls harm each other in sports all the damn time. He pointed out that when there was a bill to protect cis women athletes against sexual predators like coaches. Y'all decided not to pass that while passing an anti-trans bills all while claiming you just care about protecting women.

[tevanbuckley]

in all seriousness i better not see a single gif of that fuckass harry potter show on this hellsite.

don't make them, don't post them, don't reblog them. just don't give free advertising to a millionaire giddy over stripping trans people of their rights.

[afusionoffandoms]

Edinburgh Tour Replacing Harry Potter Tours with LGBTQ+ History Walks Because of J.K. Rowling Comments

An Edinburgh-based tour company is making a significant shift this June by replacing its popular Harry Potter-themed walking tours with LGBT

Public outcry makes a difference.

Boycotting makes a difference.

We can make a difference.

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.