An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling
Check your privilege: A space is not “safe” just because it is only for AFAB women
Dear J.K. Rowling,
Hi! You don’t know me, but your books changed my life.
Really, they did. I was just a little girl growing up in a big bad house in a big bad world that did not love me. My parents abused me, my peers bullied me, and all the magic seemed to have gone out of the world when..BOOM!
Along came your books to save my life.
I devoured the stories of Harry and his friends. No more was I the only child who had ever felt abandoned and alone. Suddenly there were millions of us. All across the world, kids just like me began to find each other. Because of you, we were able to imagine new lives, better lives, full of adventure and delight, happiness and friendship. We were able to imagine futures full of joy.
Ma’am, for children like me, you helped keep us alive.
That’s why it’s so very, very disappointing that you have decided to use your platform to try to burn that future out from under us now.
Others have written extensively about your efforts to take on the movement for trans rights and queer rights. I won’t add my voice to theirs right now, because they’ve done a much…
