#jkr fans

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J.K. Rowling is one of the rare celebrities who uses her fame/fortune to speak out and help others who are often ignored. 

“I set up the Volant Trust, in my mother’s maiden name, in 2000 to support charitable causes and issues I feel passionately about and want to support. Since then the Trust has donated to countless charitable organisations, both large and small, to help women and children, who are at risk in their lives or find themselves in situations, where there seems no way out.” - J.K. Rowling

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What are some of your favourite pro jkr blogs to follow? Looking for people to follow who love her work instead of endlessly dissecting it for thoughtcrimes 😬

Hello! I’m sorry this isn’t going to be helpful, but I feel hesitant about providing a list of blogs on here because I’m afraid of someone targetting and reporting these blogs for pure spite. There are plenty of amazing blogs out there that are fairly easy to find, though! If you’d like to come off anonymous I’ll be more forthcoming! Hope you understand x

Also: for off-tumblr fan activity I recommend Maura Leamy on twitter. She runs a FantasticBeasts website and has an amazing discord! Very positive place. Strikefans.com as well of course - I think they might have a discord, too?

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From JKR’s essay:

“Late on Saturday evening, scrolling through children’s pictures before I went to bed, I forgot the first rule of Twitter – never, ever expect a nuanced conversation – and reacted to what I felt was degrading language about women. I spoke up about the importance of sex and have been paying the price ever since. I was transphobic, I was a cunt, a bitch, a TERF, I deserved cancelling, punching and death. You are Voldemort said one person, clearly feeling this was the only language I’d understand.

It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags – because of course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter – scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow. There’s joy, relief and safety in conformity. As Simone de Beauvoir also wrote, “… without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one’s liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”

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Happy Belated New Year, JK Rowling Fans

Apologies for my absence and lack of JKR updates. Hopefully I will be able to make some summaries of the past couple months soon. 

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It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Another section from JK Rowling’s essay:

”If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you’d find solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I too have known moments of blind fear when I realised that the only thing keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker.

I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they’re most likely to be killed by sexual partners. Trans women who work in the sex industry, particularly trans women of colour, are at particular risk. Like every other domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor I know, I feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been abused by men.

So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.”

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Response to Andrew Carter re: J.K. Rowling (pt 1)

At 5:06pm on June 10, J.K. Rowling published the following piece, which was clearly the culmination of years of considering and agonising…

Article fact-checking a popular thread of tweets claiming to “debunk” Ms. Rowling’s essay. 

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J.K. Rowling by Neil Wilder. 1st July 1999.