Beaconsfield High School drops JK Rowling as house name amid controversial stance on trans issues and gender identity
Beaconsfield High School. Inset: JK Rowling A Beaconsfield school has decided to drop JK Rowling as one of its house names amid huge controversy over her views on gender. The move has been made by Beaconsfield High School after students questioned the “appropriateness” of having one of their six houses named after the Harry Potter author. JK Rowling’s stance on trans issues and gender identity – which she outlined in a series of tweets and a long essay back in June last year - has attracted criticism but she vehemently denies she is transphobic.
May 05, 2021
Your neck’s fragile skin is particularly susceptible to signs of ageing and sun and lifestyle damage.
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In her 2006 essay “I Feel Bad About My Neck”, the late author, essayist and screenwriter Nora Ephron lamented that the neck is “a dead giveaway” when it comes to the unavoidable signs that you are, in fact, ageing.
At lunch, she writes, all of her girlfriends (“I suppose I mean my women friends. We are no longer girls and have not been girls for 40 years”) wore polo necks or silk scarfs.
While there is much we can do for our faces when it comes to holding back the effects of time, the fragile skin of the neck (not to mention the way we crunch over our smartphones or constantly crane at a screen) makes it a prime candidate for giving up the ghost.