![]() As trans people and issues have gained more visibility in recent years, so has the backlash. "Dress however you please," Rowling tweeted, "but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya" This view, that biological sex - simply the way your body is built - makes you immutably one thing or the other and, therefore, trans women aren't "real" women, is a basic tenet of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. Discovering the queer community and queer culture felt, to me, a lot like Harry felt walking into Diagon Alley for the first time: A riot of color and noise and wonder. Once I had the language to describe myself, it was as if a new world revealed itself to me. I was unable or unwilling to examine that queer self, the way Muggles either couldn't or didn't want to see Diagon Alley, hidden in plain sight. Turns out, there was something I hadn't discovered back then: My queer self. ![]() Maybe I just haven't discovered my magic yet, but when I do, I'll find my people. Maybe the reason I don't fit in anywhere is that I'm a wizard, I'd think at night. I identified with Harry's unease in the Muggle world, identified with the idea of needing to wear Muggle clothes in order to blend in, identified with Harry's relief at finally finding his people. My friends and I dressed up to attend midnight release parties at our local bookstores, midnight premieres at the movie theater. I can chart my adolescence through the series - I was 8 when I read Sorcerer's Stone, 17 and a fresh high school graduate when Deathly Hallows published. I'm of the generation that grew up with Harry Potter and his friends. We are, quite literally, people who menstruate, and it's more than a little disappointing that the woman who created a wizarding world that meant everything to me doesn't care to include me or my community.ĭiscovering the queer community and queer culture felt, to me, a lot like Harry felt walking into Diagon Alley for the first time: A riot of color and noise and wonder. Trans men also don't fit into the woman category. I'm nonbinary, meaning that my gender identity doesn't categorize neatly as man or woman. But here we are.Īnd here I am, a person who once revered Rowling, a person who is also in the community that she invalidated with a few careless tweets. Not only are we in the middle of a global pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States alone, disproportionately affecting black and brown communities, but black people in the United States - and all over the world - are protesting for basic equality in the face of police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. Let me get this out of the way: It feels odd for me to be writing this essay right now. It was also chosen because K comes after J and made it easy to pronounce.The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women - ie, to male violence - ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences - is a nonsense.- J.K. Rowling doesn’t have a middle name and chose the K from her paternal grandmother Kathleen. When publishing her first novel, the staff at Bloomsbury Published asked her to use her initials because the target audience of young boys would not want to read a book written by a woman. ![]() Many people know the author of the Harry Potter but do not know that her real name is Joanne Rowling. A Broadway show called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was also made with Rowling’s approval. They are also considered one of the most influential books of all and made Time Magazine’s 100 most influential novels list. The Harry Potter books are one of the best-selling books of all time with over 500 million copies sold. One of the Best Selling Books of All Time She makes around $50 million to a $100 million each year and made $90 million between June 2018-June 2019. Rowling has made most of her money from the Harry Potter franchise which includes book sales, movies, theme parks, and merchandise. That may be true if she has donated a lot of it. ![]() Rowling’s estimated net worth is $1 billion dollars but the author has insisted that she isn’t a billionaire.
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