Celebs couldn't stop Brexit: J.K. Rowling, Eddie Izzard and more urged Remain...
Famous entertainers can shape opinions, but their influence often ends up being limited in practice
View ArticlePottermore problems: Scholars and writers call foul on J.K. Rowling's North...
The Ilvermorny origin story perpetuates colonialist perspectives, appropriates and erases Native American culture
View ArticleGot your broomstick? IRL Quidditch gets super competitive
So Major League Quidditch is a 100% real thing and it just held its Super Bowl — complete with a broom sponsor
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling's allegory fail: Werewolves are not a useful metaphor for HIV/AIDS
Rowling is right that HIV and AIDS still carry stigma but offers no meaningful interpretation through Remus Lupin
View ArticlePiers Morgan calls J.K. Rowling a "serial loser"
Piers Morgan and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling trade jabs on Twitter
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling tweets unhappily about photos of Obama, and people joined right in
With Trump in office on the 5-year anniversary of Obama's re-election, the author caught a case of the feels
View Article“The Witcher” is baffling to the uninitiated, but diehards swear by its...
The campy franchise has its shortcomings, but Netflix's uneven adaptation manages to improve in later episodes
View ArticleJon Stewart said Harry Potter goblins are Jews, but adds, “I do not think JK...
Jon Stewart wants us all to calm down. In a December episode of his podcast “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” the comedian and host poked fun at J.K. Rowling for her antisemitic characterization of the...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling organizes boozy TERF lunch amidst protest and march for...
A boozy lunch at London’s prestigious River Café — an exclusive Michelin-star restaurant — soon became the talk of the town on social media. Why? Because the Sunday morning affair was essentially a...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling is once again linked to something terrible
When your name is on the tip of the tongue of the most detested man in the current news cycle, it may be time to conduct a personal inventory. Author J.K. Rowling, best known for being the author of...
View ArticleRussian pranksters convinced J.K. Rowling she was on a Zoom call with Zelenskyy
Author J.K. Rowling is the latest celebrity to fall into the trap of Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus, two pranksters who have made names for themselves by pulling similar stunts on the likes of Elton...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling offers condolences after Salman Rushdie attack and is told “You...
J.K. Rowling paid tribute to fellow author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed on Friday before a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, and in return she received a threat upon her own...
View ArticleRalph Fiennes slams criticism of J.K. Rowling as “verbal abuse” and cancel...
Ralph Fiennes is defending J.K. Rowling once again. In a New York Times weekend interview, the Oscar-nominated actor said the “verbal abuse” the “Harry Potter” author has received over her contentious...
View Article“It’s horrendous, a load of bollocks”: Helena Bonham Carter stands by Johnny...
Helena Bonham Carter has spoken out in favor of two of her closest — and contentious — co-workers: Johnny Depp and J.K. Rowling. In a recent interview with The Times, Bonham Carter bashed “cancel...
View ArticleAlice Walker defends J.K. Rowling’s TERF views in new essay
In a new essay posted to her website last week, “The Color Purple” author, Alice Walker, defended the trans-exclusionary radical feminism views of fellow writer, J.K. Rowling. “I read the first Harry...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling removed from Museum of Pop Culture exhibit for her transphobic...
J.K. Rowling has been removed from a “Harry Potter” exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, due to her “super hateful and divisive” transphobic views. In a blog post published in March, the...
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“Heartstopper” illuminates that being a trans youth is joyful, everyday and...
Netflix’s young adult breakout hit “Heartstopper” is back but most importantly, this season, it gives Elle (Yasmin Finney) — the show’s biracial transgender lead — room to be front and center to revel...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling says she would rather go to prison than refer to transgender...
J.K. Rowling — the author best known for creating Harry Potter, and for her controversial views on transgender women which have led to her name becoming synonymous with the term "TERF"...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling threatens to sue Harry Potter fanpage over claims of estranged...
J.K. Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series, is considering taking legal action against Wizarding News, a fan account on X/Twitter that touts itself as an "award-winning news service"...
View Article“Arrest me!”: J.K. Rowling posts anti-trans rant, responding to Scottish hate...
J.K. Rowling has taken on Scotland's new legislation against hate speech in a lengthy anti-transgender Twitter thread posted Monday. Per ABC, Scotland's new Hate Crime and Public Order Act makes it...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling slams Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for supporting...
J.K. Rowling is hitting out at former "Harry Potter" actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for previously supporting transgender rights. The fantasy series creator, who frequently posts her views...
View Article“It makes me really sad”: Daniel Radcliffe on J.K. Rowling’s anti-transgender...
"Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe has issued a response to series creator J.K. Rowling's steady stream of anti-transgender remarks. Speaking to The Atlantic about his role in the Broadway musical,...
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You don’t have to give up Harry Potter to quit J.K. Rowling
I genuinely feel for younger people, who will never have the pleasure of experiencing the unproblematic version of Rowling and her novels. For millennials and Gen Z kids like mine, there was once a...
View ArticleDid Trump adviser Roger Stone admit to working with WikiLeaks while on the...
President Donald Trump’s close adviser Roger Stone — better known as a notorious right-wing hatchet man and conspiracy theorist— doesn’t seem to have learned much from his boss’s own bad experiences...
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What do protests about Harry Potter books teach us?
On Monday, June 26, 2017, Harry James Potter — the world’s most famous wizard — will celebrate his 20th birthday. His many fans will likely mark the occasion by rereading a favorite Harry Potter novel...
View ArticleJ. K. Rowling apologizes for anti-Trump tweet, but not to Trump
J. K. Rowling, the acclaimed author most famous for the internationally bestselling “Harry Potter” series, has apologized for incorrectly accusing President Donald Trump of refusing to shake hands with...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling expertly slams President Trump’s rant about Hillary Clinton in a...
One of the skills evidently required to becoming one of the most inventive writers ever is succinctness. It’s something J. K. Rowling demonstrates every time she does a 140-character takedown on...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the surprisingly poignant literary theme
Harry Potter is the literary phenomenon of the past century, and while our society has had no difficulty celebrating J.K. Rowling’s work, the literary community has been somewhat slower in figuring out...
View ArticleIs #MeToo moving into domestic violence?
Australian model Lucy McIntosh accused nightclub entrepreneur Mark Houston of domestic violence through a post on her Instagram Wednesday. Using the hashtag #MeToo, McIntosh published a picture of her...
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“Michael,” Harry Potter and the death of the problematic fave
Recently, one of my best friends asked me if I’d seen “Michael,” Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic that Salon’s movie critic Coleman Spilde hailed as “so damn weird.” This person knows me better...
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