#j. k. rowling

[vyachki]

When I am high (like now), I think about how J. K. Rowling really did write the BEST selling Young Adults' series of all time and turn it into a billion-dollar film franchise... and then in like a single day she was collectively cancelled & defamed (and honestly defaced too) by her hugest fans, for saying that biological sex is real & the sex-based oppression is a real concept—literally unprovoked too. Joanne spoke her mind not caring about backlash... and she's still correct, a genius, & thriving as she should...

[lorandesore]

Tom Marvolo Riddle

[locatislunaticolupin]

I'm so very sorry about your dad. As you probably know, the single biggest influence on the series was the death of my mother. Those books are really an extended meditation on loss and what it means to live a good life.

A small reflection from J. K. Rowling on Harry Potter's themes.

[ruttotohtori]

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Rowling lahjoitti vastikään 70 000 puntaa For Women Scotland -yhdistykselle, joka on kampanjoinut muun muassa sen puolesta, että transnaiset suljettaisiin ulos naisille sukupuolitetuista tiloista.

Iso-Britannian korkein oikeus linjasi huhtikuussa, että maan tasa-arvolain tarkoittamat naisten oikeudet eivät koske juridisesti sukupuolensa korjanneita transnaisia. Oikeuden kantaa oli hakenut For Women Scotland, ja monet sateenkaarijärjestöt ovat kuvanneet päätöstä transvastaiseksi.

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Rowlingin tuki transvastaisena pidetylle kampanjalle ei tullut kaikille yllätyksenä. Kirjailija on vuodesta 2020 alkaen vastustanut sosiaalisessa mediassa aktiivisesti transihmisten oikeuksia, kuten itsemäärittelyoikeuteen perustuvaa translakia.

Sukupuolentutkija Judith Butler sanoo tuoreessa teoksessaan Kuka pelkää sukupuolta, että Rowlingin kirjoitukset lietsovat pelkoa ja vihaa sukupuolivähemmistöjä kohtaan. Butlerin mukaan Rowling vihjaa teksteissään vailla perusteluja tai lähteitä, että transnaiset loisivat seksuaalisen väkivallan uhan muille naisille.

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Jenni Poutiainen on eri mieltä. Hän muistuttaa, että 2020-luvun lapset eivät ole kasvaneet Potter-ilmiön ympäröiminä – mutta jos Potter-sarjaa edelleen hehkutetaan, lapset saattavat innostua ja pyytää myös fanituotteita itselleen.

Poutiaisen mukaan rahallisen tuen lisäksi myös näkyvyyden antaminen Rowlingille ja tämän kirjoille voi satuttaa sukupuolivähemmistöjä. On ristiriitaista olla transfobiaa vastaan ja samalla tehdä sosiaaliseen mediaan postauksia Harry Potterista.

– Voitaisiin mieluummin kaikki olla hiljaa ja antaa Rowlingin pöhistä yksin jossain, toteaa Poutiainen.

[vavuska]

J. K. Rowling vs David Tennant: where is the truth and where the lies?

Probably everyone have read something about an unpopular opinion posted by J. K. Rowling on Twitter (cough, I mean X), where she decided to go after David Tennant. She claimed that during an interview Tennant was talking about whinging f**kers who need to just shut up. These whinging f**kers who he is referring to are women who’s rights are being oppressed, according to J. K. Rowling.

Unfortunately, Tennant didn't say anything against oppressed and abused women. Actually, Rowling is *again* pursuing her personal crusade claiming female-only = no trans-women. Tennant, after accepting an award, took the microphone and gave a speech about the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, and the sad need for awards like the one he received (he was honored at the British LGBT Awards with Celebrity Ally award).

During the speech, Tennant also targeted UK Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, who had previously said she would exclude trans-women from single-sex areas. Tennant said:

“I suppose if I’m honest I’m a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they’re not hurting anyone else should merit any kind of special or award or special mention because it’s common sense, isn’t it?” Tennant said in his speech. “It’s human decency. We shouldn’t live in a world where that is worth remarking on. However until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore — I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up — whilst we do live in this world I am honoured to receive this.”

Tennant’s speech started a war of words with Badenoch, who later took to social media to say she would not shut up as the actor suggested. She went on to call Tennant “a rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.”

Which, again, is a... Ehm... Lie, since Tennant didn't attack Minister Badenoch for her ethnicity or threatened her life. Tennant speech was critical of her position regarding trans rights and not her personal life. Tennant was calling out government bigots for their political opinions regarding social issues and not attacking anyone on personal basis and NEVER - NEVER said anything about institutional racism (which Minister Badenoch herself claimed it's not a problem in UK) and violence against women (both cis and trans) not being major problems.

In a separate red carpet interview on the awards ceremony, Tennant was asked to say something to the trans youth. He responded to don't feel judged or unloved, because transphobic politicians are just a little minority: “It's a tiny bunch of little whinging f**kers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”

The whole interview is available under here and it's sweet and heartwarming:

As always, J. K. Rowling and conservative politicians are strumentalizing LGBTQ+ awareness contents to make the community and it's allies look like evil terrorists (“gender Taliban”) and therefore pursuing their anti-trans goals while also belittling abuse perpetrated on women in religious states and systemic racism. Since violence against women is overwhelmingly committed by cisgender men, why are the Tories blaming LGBTQ+ community and it's allies?

J. K. Rowling and Minister Badenoch demonstrated through their words, how danger narratives can be invoked not only to obscure (hetero) cis men’s violence and abuse against cis and trans women, but also justify violence against the whole LGBTQ + community in the holy name of (cis-hetero) women's safety. [Here my previous post about this]

[cinematic-literature]

Saltburn (2023) by Emerald Fennell

Book title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) by J. K. Rowling

[mollyringle]

I am perhaps extreme on this, but I don’t think there’s a good excuse to stay in HP fandom, unless one does agree with Rowling's infamous tweets of recent years. Separating art from artist is debatably all right when the artist is dead and no longer collecting royalties, but when the artist is still on Twitter bragging about her royalties, and there’s so much queer-friendly fantasy that could be talked up instead…yep, nope, trans/genderqueer/NB allies should jump ship.

I admit I look askance now at HP cosplayers and anyone still putting their Hogwarts house in their social media bio. I know, I know, a fandom that meant so much to a person for a phase of their life is going to claim a special place in their memories. But you wouldn’t (I hope) continue celebrating the birthday of a toxic ex-friend because you liked them two decades ago, so why stay with the fandom, when by so doing you’re keeping Rowling culturally relevant? We can support the innocent actors from the HP movies by supporting the work they’ve done since the series—I’m sure they’d rather have more focus on those newer projects anyway.

I practice what I preach: I could be continuing to lure in potential readers with my HP parodies, but instead I have taken them all down, all the places I can still reach, because I don’t want to give her any airtime, even obliquely like that.

I think if y'all knew how very, very little the vast majority of us writers make, and how hard we try to reach readers, and how much we'd appreciate a smidgen of success, and how hard some of us are trying to help and protect our fellow queer folks...you would better understand why this is a big deal, to someone who is also a writer of urban fantasy. I’ll stop there. Apparently I could go on and on about this.

[redcomunitaria]

J. K. Rowling

Créditos de la imagen a quien correspondan

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[sweetest-girl-in-the-universe]

why is god a man? god must be J.K ROWLING

[mikyapixie]

New Cute ANYA × POKEMON × HARRY POTTER Halloween Figurine Revealed!!!

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[tronodiferro]

Maggie Smith 28 December 1934 − 27 September 2024

DaniloPè

[stromuprisahat]

I don't know if you've read Harry Potter, but if so, what do you think? Personally, I have a problem with grossophobia in books, as well as the way Lily Evans, Harry's mother, was written. The books completely shattered the visions I had of her in the movies. This female character is awful to me, in her treatment compared to Severus and James. How can you keep from laughing at your best friend, being harassed, head down and underwear out?

I've made myself read HP some sixteen? years ago... mostly so I'll be acquainted with it enough to criticize it, since I hate all those fashionable crazes, and I found them annoying and stupid already as a teen. I didn't particularly like it, with the exception of the third and the fifth book, and I've managed to finish the whole then-published series soon enough to witness the insanity that was publication of the last book (and guess enough of the story to genuinely hate the ending).

I've never re-read them, and I don't really intend to, although I have the series in Slytherin edition, because IT'S FUCKING SYLTHERIN BITCHES! and I have it whole in Czech once they published it with pretty covers, in case mum and my great-uncle decide to read it.

I know the books have plenty of issues, including stuff I wasn't thinking about while reading them, but honestly- the only good thing I took from them is that the Hogwarts Houses are fucking cool, and once I made my family do the official sorting tests, plenty of our relationships suddenly made sense. Oh, and wands! If you need to constantly carry around a phalic item, it better be a magical piece of wood!

As for Lily, I don't remember nearly enough about her, aside from her and Severus' relationship being both-sidedly toxic af, and Marauders being a bunch of assholes to specific students. That said, I also deeply despise Snape, because childhood bullying is no excuse to terrorize children (*cough* Baghra 2.0 *cough*).

Also, me being over thirty put some things into a perspective. Fighting the Dark Lord in teens, early twenties- why not, getting a job after school is no less terrifying-, but why the hell was everyone pregnant immediatelly?!

[ultimateanna]