My read on JKR's politics is that she was always a fairly incurious, accidentally conservative person who considered herself "liberal" Which means that like most of her generational cohort she wasn't actively a TERF until a few years ago but becoming one was basically inevitablehttps://twitter.com/LilahSturges/status/1269975319823421442 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yes but, she definitely was a point on the graph for young progressive politics in the UK. Pullman was slightly too early/controversial to find the groove with millenials, JKR basically struck the vein and stayed there for years.
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Don't forget that the books ended right after social media began to properly take off, do many of the voices who would speak out against harmful tropes wouldn't have been able to do so in real time like they can now with 2020s edgy fare.
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It was never the writing quality that got us, it was the fantastical twist on the "British boarding school story" that did it (we heard A LOT of boarding school stories as kids).
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Which is a shame, because that's exactly why she wasn't at all the first person to do that genre mash-up (Jill Murphy, Diana Wynne Jones) She just caught the millennial zeitgeist, as you say
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Yep, that's basically what I spent too many words trying to say
Not the first and maybe, not the most worthy to be remembered I expect? (I'm not familiar with the authors you've named)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh see I only knew the Worst Witch as a tv show, haven't ever read the books.
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