I acknowledge JK Rowling’s role as creator of the franchise as well as her current devolvement into this transphobe asshole that she is. The material itself is to my knowledge not transphobe (it doesn’t mention transitioning or trans persons itself, and could maybe even be viewed as pro-trans with the whole polyjuice stuff).
So I know the source of this work and can thus be cautious about potential transphobe parts
Her work is (ignoring her) a very popular piece of culture and we as a community should thus be able to extend it further, thus making it a community effort and slowly releasing it from the grasp of Rowling.
So both can work together.
I will not go into more detail about HP or JKR to save us all time.
Second this, especially considering how the mix of public concepts that directly inspired Rowling create a world that is actually very queer suited regardless of her ability to recognise so.
I hope we can one day walk away from her copyright and build a proper public domain magical universe but for now we have to deal with the copyrighted version as the only one that is given a budget for large media formats.
We can also celebrate the input of individual artists working on this media that extends the creators vision beyond her input that we must remain skeptical about.
No. Let’s take Harry Potter.
I acknowledge JK Rowling’s role as creator of the franchise as well as her current devolvement into this transphobe asshole that she is. The material itself is to my knowledge not transphobe (it doesn’t mention transitioning or trans persons itself, and could maybe even be viewed as pro-trans with the whole polyjuice stuff).
So I know the source of this work and can thus be cautious about potential transphobe parts
Her work is (ignoring her) a very popular piece of culture and we as a community should thus be able to extend it further, thus making it a community effort and slowly releasing it from the grasp of Rowling.
So both can work together.
I will not go into more detail about HP or JKR to save us all time.
Second this, especially considering how the mix of public concepts that directly inspired Rowling create a world that is actually very queer suited regardless of her ability to recognise so.
I hope we can one day walk away from her copyright and build a proper public domain magical universe but for now we have to deal with the copyrighted version as the only one that is given a budget for large media formats.
We can also celebrate the input of individual artists working on this media that extends the creators vision beyond her input that we must remain skeptical about.