She remains the character who innately reflected my own nonbinary nature before I even fully understood it myself. With Rowling herself, though, such a tidy conclusion is harder to draw. And no effort to separate the art from the artist can ever be fully successful when the artist is right there, reminding you that she intended for her art to reflect her prejudice all along.
Instead, I think cancel culture is best treated like a collective decision to minimize the cultural influence a person and their work have moving forward. This approach has already been applied to some 20th-century figures whose art is now almost always foregrounded within the context of what remains problematic about it: White supremacists Ezra Pound and H.
Lovecraft , and the white supremacist film Birth of a Nation , are the clearest, most well-known examples, but society has also recalibrated the way we discuss more recent creators like Woody Allen and Michael Jackson.
With J. Many aspects of Harry Potter are already up for debate and reevaluation. But Harry Potter is simply too big a cultural landmark to jettison. Sure, the author is dead , but that idea is about reclaiming agency over our own interpretation of a text.
It paradoxically depends on the author having a proprietary interpretation of their own work — one that we can then reject. The series embodies what people in fandom mean when we say that fandom is transformative: The fans who sorted themselves into Hogwarts houses, sewed cosplay, wrote fanfic, played Quidditch , stanned Wizard Rock , swarmed stores for midnight book launches — they did all of that, not J.
Their passion made Harry Potter into the cultural phenomenon it is today. We can grieve, nurse our wounds, and be sad we loved someone who hurt us so badly. We can celebrate happier times while mourning a relationship we outgrew — one that became toxic — and regretting the time we spent waiting for a problematic fave to change and grow.
Harry Potter author J. Rowling came under fire in early June for controversial tweets she posted about the transgender community. Someone help me out. View on Twitter. That initial tweet garnered a lot of backlash, but Rowling did not relent and wrote about her views in more detail. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.
At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law.
While Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken, as someone who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment.
Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I. I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you.
And in my opinion, nobody can touch that. The phenomenal response to Rowling's books culminated in July , when the fourth volume in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , became the fastest-selling book in 24 hours ever. The book saw a first printing of 5. After a postponed release date, the fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , hit bookstores in June The sixth installment, released in July , sold 6.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the biggest opening in publishing history. Rowling does not plan to write any more books in the series, although she has not entirely ruled out the possibility. Rowling's Characters. This collection of five fables mentioned in the Harry Potter book series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard , was released on December 4, , at a tea party for schoolchildren at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Rowling donated all royalties from the book to the Children's High Level Group which has been renamed Lumos , a charity that she co-founded to support institutionalized children in Eastern Europe. Rowling's first book aimed at adults, The Casual Vacancy , was published in September The novel, a dark comedy about a local election in the small English town of Pagford, received mixed reviews. A book review in The New York Times called the novel "disappointing" and "dull.
In April , Rowling broke into a new genre, crime fiction, with a novel she published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. In the first few months following the release of Cuckoo Calling , the novel had modest sales and received positive reviews.
Sales for the work skyrocketed in July when its author's identity was discovered. Rowling makes substantial donations to charity in the form of book royalties. Grown-up Gateway Children's Entrance. Skip to content. Rowling Jo wanted to be a writer from an early age.
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