author/journalist, covering mental health and trans stuff. 📝: Esquire, Eater, The Believer, The Cut, This American Life 📖: akomp.info (Scribner) https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/ https://www.sandyernestallen.com https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
This is is such a bad take. No.
feministkilljoyyyyAs a trans person I just happen to think the HP as a series is pretty much the most accessible anti fascist lit for children and we can’t exactly throw the baby out with the bath water. I don’t want to financially support her obviously but there are other ways, also as someone noted above, piracy
Just for anyone who may find this of use, my essay can hopefully help clue folks in who remain (somehow) clueless: lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans PersonDuring the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …lithub.comSiennaI recently had the opportunity to explain this to some friends. I was surprised they hadn’t heard after all these years. And they are parents of an out gender queer person!
What's Helping Today: Genuinely so grateful to those who support me, via my Buy Me a Coffee. It just means so much that random people care. buymeacoffee.com/sandyallen
Sandy Ernest AllenI'm a journalist and the author of A KIND OF MIRRACULAS PARADISE (Scribner). I also write a self-care-focused newsletter called What's Helping Today. Thank you for your one-time or monthly contributiobuymeacoffee.comSandy Ernest AllenAnyway! Gonna step away from just mouthing off about JKR's evil and the cowardice of cis people everywhere.
Is @amnesty.org more generally going to let @amnestyuk.bsky.social behave in this obviously evil fashion? Ultimately trans people, we're facing a genocide. Anyone with a functioning brain should be able to understand this, at this point.
Sandy Ernest AllenI dunno, I admit my life these days is so consumed by sadness I'm barely functional. But the fact that this evil bigot gets the likes of Amnesty International to apologize to *her* should scare cis folks everywhere. It's a sign just how corrupted the UK has been by this bullshit moral panic ...
Here are 69+ ways to support LGB and especially T people ... If you have money to blow on Harry Potter crap, consider giving it instead to trans-led people/causes ... whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/69-ways-to...
69+ Ways to Support LGB and especially T People“ ... start being meaner to your transphobic family and coworkers”whats-helping-today.beehiiv.comSandy Ernest AllenIf you're cis and your biggest problem is how you're still going to consume Harry Potter, perhaps contemplate for more than three seconds how it might feel to be trans in the UK or US right now.
I didn't realize this was a thing. Canadians, boycott!
Shantell PowellI am so pissed that Tim Hortons is running a Harry Potter campaign. It sure makes it hard for me to find food while on the road, but I don't want her to earn a single penny from me.
Yes! Hopefully cis people will learn about additional books.
New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Someone tell them there are many other books out there!
for sure! and! for those who love Harry Potter, the books, the movies, what have you, here's an essay I wrote grappling with what to do about that, myself: lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans PersonDuring the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …lithub.comMestin Dendarinyes and there are so many better stories out there!