Tag: JK Rowling

Oxfam Denies ‘Terf’ Cartoon Resembles JK Rowling

Oxfam has apologised over a Pride month “Terf” cartoon following a furious backlash on social media. The anti-poverty charity was forced to remove a tweet—which included the colourful image—and deny it based one evil-looking animated character on author JK Rowling. In the original animated clip, which appeared on the organisation’s website on Tuesday, three villains…


Civil Service Blocked Meetings With Gender Critics: Former Minister

A minister who was tasked with protecting free speech under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims she was blocked from meeting high-profile gender critics by the Civil Service. Andrea Jenkyns, who served as higher education and skills minister for three months in 2022, said she was barred from meeting author JK Rowling and feminist academic…


Cory Morgan: CRTC Should Immediately Dismiss Activist-Based Demands to Remove Fox News

Commentary The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) used to be a regulatory body established by the federal government. As of late, the CRTC has been acting as a state censorship body. That the CRTC is even considering banning the Fox News Network from Canadian distribution due to complaints from activist groups shows just how broad…


Rex Murphy: The Attack on Riley Gaines Shows Just How Far Things Have Sunk

Commentary  Women are women. How’s that for a sentence? A declaration. To say a woman is a woman requires no prefix. It requires no qualifier. No extra start-up syllable. It requires no semantic trickery to take its plain and always-understood sense—its sense since the beginning of time and the discovery of language itself—to try to turn it…


Rival Literary Union Attracts Members After Society of Authors Accused of Neglecting Free Speech Rights

A new rival literary union is hoping to attract members from the UK’s Society of Authors, after the latter was criticised for not defending women authors who were attacked for being critical of gender ideology. Writers are reportedly leaving the Society of Authors (SoA) for a rival union after several years marked by authors getting…


Warner Bros. Discovery, Literary Agent Condemn Threat Against JK Rowling

Warner Bros. Discovery and a top literary agent have condemned the threats made against Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling after the stabbing attack of author Salman Rushdie at a public lecture in New York last Friday. The company, which produced the Harry Potter films, said on Sunday that it “strongly condemns” the threats made against Rowling….


Police Investigating Death Threat to JK Rowling After Salman Rushdie Attack

British police said they are investigating a report of an online threat made to JK Rowling after she reacted to the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in New York State. After the Harry Potter author said on Twitter she felt “very sick” after hearing the news of the stabbing and hoped Rushdie would “be OK,”…


BC Nurses’ Regulator Drops ‘Medically Inaccurate’ Allegation in Charge Against Nurse for Endorsing Sex-Based Rights

British Columbia’s regulatory body for nurses and midwives has dropped a charge against a nurse that accused her of making “medically inaccurate” statements in her advocacy for sex-based rights. In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) began investigating Amy Hamm, a registered nurse in Vancouver, following public complaints about her…


Media Describing Male Rapists as Female Is ‘Despicable’: Women’s Rights Activist

An Australian women’s rights advocate has spoken out against characterising transgender sex attackers of male origin as women, saying promoting gender politics could come at the expense of truth and victims’ rights. Katherine Deves, co-founder of Save Women’s Sports Australasia, told The Epoch Times it was “despicable” that sexually violent crimes committed by men were…