Organisers of a New Zealand book festival have dropped a
Harry Potter quiz from the event over JK Rowling’s trans views, saying they want the festival to be a “welcoming place for everyone”.
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival in New Zealand said they have chosen not to feature the popular
Harry Potter quiz on this year’s programmes in light of the author’s explosive tweets on trans people.
Rowling has received tremendous backlash due to a series of tweets and a lengthy essay she published on the subject in June 2020. She has been fiercely criticised by LGBT+ advocates and even
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Harry Potter event was canceled at an upcoming book festival in New Zealand over headline-making comments the best selling author J.K. Rowling made, in which she said only women can menstruate.
Organizers of the Featherston Booktown Karukatea festival in New Zealand, which will be held on May 6-9 have canceled an interactive
Harry Potter quiz which had been very popular at past events according to a report by Stuff.
Rowling has faced backlash by transgender activists for saying only women can menstruate. The author has also been labeled a “TERF” (trans exclusionary radical feminist) a term referring to feminists who are considered too “radical” for even left-wing activists, as they do not believe that a biological man is a woman.
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The Harry Potter Series, perhaps the most highly-favored fantasy novels among young readers, is being cancelled just like its author at a New Zealand book festival.
Woke organizers of the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival taking place on May 6-9 in New Zealand, removed a popular Harry Potter segment from the event because of author J.K. Rowling’s “transphobia.” Her public acknowledgement of the reality of biological sex is what originally led to the canceling of the massively successful author back in 2020. In this case, the irony is almost too much to bear as the festival will feature a panel discussion hosted by veteran broadcaster Ian Fraser examining the phenomenon of cancel culture and its impact on New Zealand art and literature.
Book Festival Cancels Harry Potter Quiz Over Rowling Transphobia
The Featherston Booktown Kaukatea Festival in New Zealand will not include its regular Harry Potter quiz this year, due to author J.K. Rowling s transphobic statements. May 03 2021 4:14 PM EDT
A Harry Potter trivia quiz at a popular New Zealand book festival is being canceled this year due to the book series’ author’s history of transphobic tweets and statements.
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is held every year, but after consulting with the local LGBTQ+ community, organizers have decided that one tradition, a Harry Potter quiz, will not be returning this time. When the festival takes place Friday through Sunday, J.K. Rowling’s books will not be celebrated.
It is not the first time that Ms Rowling has been ‘cancelled’ as a result of expressing her views on whether men who identify as women are the same as biological females
J. K. Rowling has again fallen victim to ‘cancel culture’ after a literary festival in New Zealand scrapped plans for a Harry Potter-themed event over her comments on gender issues.
Peter Biggs, chairman of the Wairarapa book festival, reportedly decided to drop the annual children’s quiz that is usually held on the boy wizard following consultations with the LGBTQ community.
It is not the first time that Ms Rowling has been ‘cancelled’ as a result of expressing her views on whether men who identify as women are the same as biological females.