With The Drop Of The New Fantastic Beasts Trailer, Let's Take A Moment To Remember That JKR:

With the drop of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, let's take a moment to remember that JKR:

1. is unequivocally a TERF + openly supports and allies herself with other TERFs

2. uses her massive wealth and platform to fight against trans rights, such that an anti-trans republican senator has cited her controversial essay to block voting on the Equality Act , and

3. has retained so much control over the HP franchise that giving her money (through movie tickets, book sales, official merch, etc) actively enables and contributes to the platform she uses to target vulnerable people

Things Read in October

Articles/Essays:

Has Self Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction?

Heroines of Self Hate

This Guy Has Invented A Scarf That Can Make You Invisible in Photos

Dune: an accomplished escape into the realm of cinematic Arab appropriation

The White Savior Industrial Complex

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

This Buddhist Monk is A Makeup Artist and An LGBTQ Activist

The Gods Show Up

The Troubling Rhetoric of Space Exploration

The Art of Nonfiction

The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia

The Beauty-Happiness Connection

Physics's Pangolin

How Americans Became Convinced Their Halloween Candy Was Poisoned

It's time to drop the curtain on Japan's colonial legacy

Retro photos reveal what it was like to be a flight attendant throughout the years

Why the books we read as children are the ones that shape our psyche

Still Not A British Subject: Race and UK Poetry

I am Hazara and I fear for my persecuted people

Jamie Lee Curtis says plastic surgery is 'wiping out generations of beauty'

Identity Fraud

First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.

Black Children Were Jailed For A Crime That Doesn't Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Lush Rot

Pandora Papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

How mental health became a social media minefield

Don't Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope is A Right We Must Protect

Before 'Get Out,' There Was 'Candyman'

Bring Back the Sabbath

The Psychology of Giant Princess Eyes

Black, gay, and graying gracefully in love

Bashō on Haiku: 17 Statements

Poetry:

October by Louise Glück

Cutting Odette's Fingernails by Bianca Stone

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

Poems From An Email Exchange by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention That Comes First by Mary Oliver

I Loved You Before I Was Born by Li-Young Lee

I Like My Body When It Is With Your Body by E. E. Cummings

Digging by Seamus Heaney

October by Robert Frost

Books:

A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Mr. Suicide by Nicole Cushing

Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly Devos

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

“bodies associated with cis women are harshly stigmatized, made taboo, and policed as part of misogyny, often in violent ways or with the threat of violence” and “not all women have vaginas and not everyone with a vagina is a woman” and “trans peoples’ bodies are harshly stigmatized, made taboo, and policed as part of transphobia, often in violent ways or with the threat of violence” are not mutually exclusive facts and in fact all of these things are deeply interlinked, and should not be used as gotchas! against each other

by Holly Warburton

The Swaddle

‘Masking’ for Years Can Leave Autistic People Confused About Who They Really Are

"When you’re acting all the time, you tend to get confused between the character you’re playing and yourself."

This. So much this. I spent so much of my life mimicking the very conservative bigots who surrounded me, trying to "fit in," and it took so many years to figure out who I really am. Hell, I'm STILL deprogramming myself and learning to unmask.