Twenty years ago the world first met The Boy Who Lived – scrawny, scarred and bespeckled. Since then, Harry Potter and his many woes and adventures have revolutionised the world of children’s literature and has become the best-selling series in … Continue reading Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of J.K Rowling Originally Published in Print February 2019
I’ve written before about my frustration with J.K. Rowling’s white-washed, cishet-centric world view, and her performative allyship to the disenfranchised. The self-congratulatory liberal politics she’s expressed have always faded when her billionaire’s bottom line was in question, or when one … Continue reading J. K. Rowling & the TERF Receipts Delete your account.
The Cuckoo’s Calling was published in 2013 as the debut crime novel of Robert Galbraith. The release was soon overcome by a media frenzy after it was leaked to The Sunday Times that the pseudonym was, in fact, the first … Continue reading BBC’s “Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling” “Harry Potter” this is decidedly not.
Harry Potter’s sprawling, magical universe is one so ubiquitous it’s easy to imagine that all of us have had some brush with it, whether that’s reading the books, watching the movies, or just catching glimpses of the cultural phenomenon left … Continue reading Harry Potter and the Legacy of Fandom