Elizabeth

Writer | Witch | Woman | Fibro Warrior #IStandWithJKRowling 💚🤍💜

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Pinning this just to piss off Twitter support

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Also, I got my books when I was 7, Karen. What's burning then gonna do except suck a bit more magic out of your sad, sad world? Gonna go buy another edition brand new <3

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Authors who want to oppress minorities. She found the wrong audience because I will always support @jk_rowling and her stance on women's rights, but when did it become okay to make people feel bad for being excited? Book burning never looks good in the textbooks. 2/2

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Authors who want to oppress minorities. She found the wrong audience because I will always support @jk_rowling and her stance on women's rights, but when did it become okay to make people feel bad for being excited? Book burning never looks good in the textbooks. 2/2

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Was excitedly talking to a colleague about the HP books and how I've got 2 sets bc after I read the first book, my Nan AND Grandma each got me a different set for Christmas. Another colleague butted in and asked if we fancied a bonfire. She went on a rant about supporting 1/2

[RigoStaRR @RigoIrizarry]

This message might not sit well with the LGBTQ+ community, but it needs to be said. And it needs to be said by someone like me.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

@jk_rowling And to suggest “just add a trans category” in 2025 is to show complete ignorance to the issue, and the effort that has been put in to try and satisfy the men who claim to be women.

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

@jk_rowling As soon as they're back up I'm donating, can't believe I didn't see this!

[notes from nowhere @asophiething]

We have no food at all until dad gets his check if anyone can send a few bucks 😔 🙏

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The literary crowd that had a hell of a lot to say about Harvey Weinstein before he was convicted has been strangely muted in its response to multiple accusations against Neil Gaiman from young women who'd never met, yet - as with Weinstein - tell remarkably similar stories.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Jenny Reilly @crit_gen]

How about we do a swap? Exchange all the women in Afghanistan for all the men who believe they're women in western countries.

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

Sadly, this was promptly peeled off by a colleague - the "kindness campain" poster outside the school where I work. #terfisland #IStandWithJKRowling

[Debs💚🤍💜 @biologycounts]

I have it on good authority that Owen Jones is a #shitweasel pass it on.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

To some people, female people having anything of their own is perceived as actively excluding, whereas male people taking whatever they like is perceived as passively existing

[Elizabeth @ElizabethPseudo]

In the months I've been a ghost, I got engaged, saw Jack Whitehall and Imagine Dragons live, got my best friend back from living abroad, and successfully convinced a friend that @jk_rowling is a feminist, not a transphobe ❤️
Some big events, some small ones. I have a pretty ring!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

“The authors argue that “gendered” pregnancy care is too focused on helping women have healthy babies, and that it might be okay for transmen to continue taking testosterone during pregnancy despite the known health risks to the fetus and effects on its normal development. The desire for “normal fetal outcomes,” according to the authors, is rooted in a problematic desire “to protect their offspring from becoming anything other than ‘normal’” and “reflect historical and ongoing social practices for creating ‘ideal’ and normative bodies.””

What did I just read?

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

This isn’t from a Stonewall manual.

It is from the Childline Message Boards.

The @NSPCC is ideologically captured.

[🇮🇱 Mrs. Sunrise 💚🤍💜 @DaunenJ]

"Non-binary people" should be mocked as navel gazing overgrown toddlers.

Imagine thinking that your personality is so unique that you are literally an entirely new kind of human being, never before seen, requiring a whole new use of language. You have the body of a woman, but you are so much more interesting and 3 dimensional than all these other women, who are basically Barbie doll NPCs

The arrogance is jaw dropping! We should mock these people relentlessly.