Author J.K. Rowling on Wednesday didn’t mince words when she said publicly that people are entitled to reject the use of trans jargon that’s becoming more prominent in today’s society. The Harry Potter scribe made the comment on Twitter after the social platform’s owner Elon Musk said the terms “cis” and “cisgender” would be considered…
Beyond the Absurd: When Your Mother Encounters a Naked Man in the Change Room at the Public Pool
Commentary For years my mother has gone swimming several times per week at her local pool in Ottawa. The pool is a central part of her life, but recently her once-innocuous activity became unsafe. About two months ago, my mother finished her swim and went to the women’s change room to shower. Afterwards she wrapped…
After Being Called Out by J.K. Rowling, Johns Hopkins Takes Down LGBT Glossary
Author J.K. Rowling blasted Johns Hopkins after the university’s medical school recently labeled a lesbian as “a non-man attracted to non-men” in its LGBT glossary. Soon after, the medical school removed the definition. “Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as a woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a…
Barbara Kay: Promising Signs That Gender Mania Is Losing Steam
Commentary Three utopian projects obsess the left: environmentalism, racism, and androgyny. Climate affects us all, racism affects millions of us, but genuine gender dysphoria is extremely rare. And yet the obsession of radical gender ideologues with de-sexing human beings, and the lengths to which its advocates are prepared to go—speech codes, science subversion, erasure of…
Peter Menzies: Ottawa’s Speech-Restricting Legislation Built on Same Foundation That Aims to Silence Peterson, Rowling
Commentary I’m not quite sure when counselling people to make their bed every morning became a seditious act of far-right extremism, but according to a coalition in the nation’s capital, the two are linked. Starting each day with a completed task such as tucking the sheets in is among Jordan Peterson’s tips in his book…
Barbara Kay: In the Move to ‘Re-Educate’ Him, Jordan Peterson Will Meet Fire With Fire
Commentary Cancel culture is in its own way democratic. Woke mobs—social media jackals or institutional flacks—don’t care whether their target for immolation is male or female, famous or obscure, a leading intellectual light or a plodding time-server. All their targets have in common is an audience. A classroom, a Twitter account, a pulpit. The pilot…
JK Rowling Wears T-shirt Calling Nicola Sturgeon a ‘Destroyer of Women’s Rights’
J.K. Rowling on Thursday posted a photo of herself wearing a black t-shirt, which says Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is a “destroyer of women’s rights.” The Harry Potter author was showing her support for protests over Scotland’s controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which if it becomes law would allow 16-year-olds to legally change their…
Harry Potter Publisher Hands out Meaty Dividend After Bumper Profits
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Wednesday reported a 40 percent jump in annual profit and raised its final dividend payout by about a quarter, buoyed by a reading boom which stayed even after the pandemic lockdowns. The London-listed publisher, best known for picking up J.K. Rowling’s Potter series in 1997 after its rejection by a dozen…
Trigger Warnings Take Our Wits Away
Commentary “The protesters falsely claimed that vaccines do not work.” So stated the reporter on last night’s TV news. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m homing in on that little weasel word “falsely.” Without it, the sentence would have read well enough—the protesters made a claim, which might be right or wrong. But to seed…
Philly’s Franklin Institute Will Host the World Debut of ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’
July 2, 2021
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By Stephan Salisbury From The Philadelphia Inquirer Harry Potter, as they say in showbiz, has got legs. Next year is the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the seven-book phenomenon, a coming-of-sage franchise which is now estimated to be worth in excess of $25 billion. More than 500 million copies of…
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