With that in mind, we’re all gonna remember that JKR is a terf who has literally been cited by legislators engaged in legislation that actively harms trans people, and we’re not gonna give her any more money.
That means not streaming the new show on Netflix, because regardless of how much influence she has on the production, she gets paid for it.
We’re gonna make the show flop. We’re gonna show Warner Brothers that we don’t forget (of course, how would we forget, it isn’t as if she’s stopped), and that their business association with terfs is no longer profitable.
It is NOT like Lovecraft, because Lovecraft is very dead and his works are in the public domain. By consuming Lovecraft media, you are not giving any money to old Howard.
reblogging this again to say some googling led to the tentative conclusion that the new remake will be on HBO max, which is owned by WarnerMedia. Netflix hasn’t hosted anything Harry Potter since early 2020, presumably because Warner is trying to direct the hp audience to their own streaming service.
Remember she also takes any support of her work as agreeing with her bigotry
btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors
Update:
J.K. Rowling is apparently now filing a defamation lawsuit against someone who made fun of her for saying this, which means its time to spread this like wildfire!
Ok, so you know how JKR has a new, very transphobic book coming out? Well it is being published by Little, Brown, and Company, a company within Hatchette Book Group. Their customer service email is customer.service@hbgusa.com . If you wanted to tell them that you feel JKR is making them look bad and that you think that they would be better off not giving her a platform if they want to be well liked and purchased from, that is who to email. Please be polite if you do. I dont want to be responsible for ruining some poor customer service worker’s day.
It’s probably worth actually contacting the UK office of Hachette, since they’re who’ll actually be publishing it, I suspect.
Having a quick click through to the Little, Brown UK website, I notice they have a ‘Little, Brown Pride’ feature on their front page, which includes queer and trans books they publish, such as Trans Like Me by CN Lester. It might be worth pointing out the dissonance between that and supporting a vocally transphobic author like Rowling by agreeing to publish her book.
Worth pointing out that STAFF at the publisher are not very happy with JKR’S recent works and have been making that clear to management, so adding pressure from the customer end might be helpful if you have the time.
sorry for all of my tss follower homepages i’m putting this on- this’ll be the last rb i swear
premise is, the staff at the publishing company has to choose between their jobs and boycotting this book and speaking out against it. and jkr put them in that situation. if anyone needs the link, it’s in the rb above this one. i don’t want the staff to be caught in the middle of this, i know i wouldn’t want to be, so take that into consideration
“Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of publishing” Says the publisher, who also says “We will never make our employees work on a book whose content they find upsetting for personal reasons, but we draw a distinction between that and refusing to work on a book because they disagree with an author’s views outside their writing, which runs contrary to our belief in free speech.” As though an author’s personal views never shows up in their writing.
In light of JK’s new book, here’s a link to donate to the UK Charity Mermaids who help provide support to trans and gender diverse children and young people!
with the new round of JK rowling being a transphobic prick rolling out, I think it’s important to reference what I call the H.P. Lovecraft rule. Fans of Lovecraft’s stuff openly acknowledge that he was remarkably racist and that his shitty beliefs bled into his work, whether through metaphors or more blatant pieces of the text, while also enjoying the monster concepts and such that he created. They use critical thinking when approaching his work and acknowledge . In my opinion, it’s fine for people to still like Harry Potter, it’s just important to acknowledge that the Rowling’s own shitty beliefs also bled into her work (the house elves ‘enjoying’ slavery, the sexism, the antisemitism with the goblins, laughable attempt at gay inclusion, lycanthropy being compared to AIDS, etc.). I really don’t think it’s bad for anyone to still enjoy the franchise, it’s just really important to use critical thinking when consuming it, which is true of any media really.
Also I know there are people who are going to drop it all together, and honestly valid, can’t blame ya, it’s just that I saw a post saying ‘you can’t separate it from her beliefs!’ and I just wanted to point out the truth in that while ALSO pointing out that it doesn’t mean people have to quit it altogether - they just need to be smart in their consumption. If someone says something along the lines of, “JK Rowling sucks but the series is still perfect, I’ll just pretend she didn’t write it,” then that’s not critical thinking. That’s just trying to make yourself feel better and pretend there’s nothing wrong with it instead of admitting there are things absolutely wrong with it and that the thing you like is flawed.
