#Rowling

Countdown Thread: Top 10 banned book list in American (USA) schools. The @ALALibrary Intellectual Freedom Office tracked 377 challenges to school materials in 2019. Of the 566 books that were
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Important. Discussed by Haidt in his last book. Concepts such as trauma & prejudice (real things that exist) creeping downward - to apply to things of less severity - &
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One final thing re. Marilyn Manson and the wider debate around how great art is sometimes made by shitty people, as it's a debate that's been raging in my head
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Cheltenham Town Hall. It's 10 years this month since I worked there so here's a thread of mundane celebrity interactions and memories.1. The Stylistics accidentally went to Chelmsford and had
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The terf argument is that trans women are men invading their safe spaces and treading on their sex-based rights. They don't believe trans women are a marginalized group because trans
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Why are TERFs so influential to public opinion and institutions (for instance, the anti-trans shit show in the UK)? A lot of it really has to do with how information
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This is important and many misread the danger.Marginalizing/censoring/deplatforming dissenters from the establishment narrative will not just make everyone fall in line.But it will still cement that narrative’s power by atomizing
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It’s been a tough few months for us all, but as I’ve been in the pub for over 4 hours now () and lockdown is gradually lifting, I thought everyone
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The transphobia crisis in the UK mirrors in a lot of ways Prop 8 in California over a decade ago. There was a concerted effort by the religious right to
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One of the most important themes in 'It's A Sin' was about gay/bi people and shame - caused by growing up in a society that saw gay/bi people as would-be
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I read the Mermaids letter. It seems to want us to conclude that if @jk_rowling continues to talk on these issues she will be responsible for the suicides of young
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Okay I guess I'm going to watch this ContraPoints video about JK Rowling, because she spent however much time it takes to shoot and edit a fucking feature-length youtube video
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Since people are talking about Joanne Rowling againI think it's really useful to point out her open and pretty extreme fatphobia And that fatphobia and transphobia have this undeniable linkin
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I've been thinking about inspiration and novel #writing. So I have written a short thread , about the different schools of thought and #writingcommmunity I would love to know what
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100 Days of Rejection Therapy: Make yourself fearless A Story to challenge your beliefs. Are you ready?(- THREAD -) A story of Jia Jiang conquering his fear of rejection and
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Women concerned about the replacement of sex with gender identity in law and policy have done such "toxic" things as...https://twitter.com/Samsmethers/status/1272112146801983488 Organised conferences http://lilymaynard.com/womens-
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