hi everyone I hope you're all well so if you thought the work identity obsessed left had
reached the Zenith of their petulant hatred for beloved Harry Potter author and women's
rights campaigner JK Rowling you were sadly wrong a recent viral Tick Tock from 23 year old Canadian
trans bookbinder Laura Flom depicts Flom rebinding Harry Potter books with the title and copyright
Pages removed why because those pages as well as the cover display JK Rowling's name hello welcome
back to the Harry Potter rebound series if you're new here my name is Laura I'm a trans artist and
bookbinder and I rebind Harry Potter books without JK Rowling's name on them because [ __ ] her it's
been a minute since I posted a book binding video so I figured I would do one video start to finish
um minus the printing process of finding a Harry Potter book yep work activists are literally at
the point with JK Rowling that they think it is a totally normal and a valid thing to pretend
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if you're the type of intellectually stunted person who can't stomach reading anything by
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nobody mind you the wokies hit this threshold with rolling a while ago
since 2020 when she had the sheer audacity to state that shock horror biological sex is
real and that self-identification policies put females in danger she has been to wokies what
Voldemort is to Harry that is a manifestation of unspeakable evil whose name must never be uttered
and evidently this unpersoning has progressed from Warner Brothers pointedly excluding rolling from
the HBO 20th anniversary Harry Potter reunion special which is why I will never ever ever
watch it to a book binder not only removing her name from the books but selling them online for
a tidy price yep you can hop onto lawflamm's website and buy yourself a full set of seven
Harry Potter books for a cool 1600 Canadian bucks and you can buy a singular volume for 230 bucks
now while I'm guessing given the man hours that go into rebinding a book about 12 hours
per volume and the overheads in terms of things like equipment they likely justify the price tag
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so money aside what would motivate Laura Flom to engage in this project that is in
addition to as per a February 2022 Tick Tock belonging to Flom Spite and boredom honestly
originally there wasn't a point or like anything really deep about this project
um I started this project out of spite and out of boredom why not just go with a good old-fashioned
book boycott well according to form that's just not impactful enough there is a lot to be said for
outright stopping engagement of problematic media in order to de-platform the Creator
unfortunately I think we are past that point with JK Rowling Charming Harry Potter is such
a huge cultural Touchstone for so many of us that the act of simply not engaging doesn't
feel impactful especially when tv specials in Harry Potter merch continue to be made and bought
I'm interacting with these books from My Lens as a queer trans Jewish person so I cannot speak on the
harm that Rowling's blatant fat phobia anti-black and anti-asian racism has had on members of those
communities well hold up a Beat what is this person talking about fat phobia anti-black and
anti-asian racism I mean where the hell in Harry Potter books do you find any of those things it's
a series about a school where everybody is loved and accepted unless you are an evil twit and even
then there's room for Redemption hello Draco Malfoy this is ridiculous my aim with this
project is to engage critically and give an option to people who do still want to enjoy Harry Potter
without supporting JK Rowling so basically the idea is to enable Harry Potter fans who might
have ethical concerns about reading Harry Potter to read the books without Rawlings big scary name
glowering at them from the title page however the irony of claiming that reading already bought
books without the author's name on them amounts to not supporting JK Rowling is laughable Rowling
already has the money from those already bought books and will probably enjoy a few Bob Moore in
book royalties as new fans of Flom invest in store-bought copies to send in for rebranding
and rebinding it is stupid to think that this is a way to proverbially reverse support JK Rowling but
it's this comment at the end of flum's February 2022 video that gives the true motive away I'm
not encouraging anyone to look past the racism and xenophobia within the text but rather trying to
come to terms with a way for those of us who have been harmed by people like JK to engage
critically with the series that provided US Safety as children and that right there is the kicker
leaving aside the dubious claim that JK Rowling has somehow harmed Flom and those similarly minded
what that could mean I have no idea it seems to me that flum loves Harry Potter feels guilty
about it because Rowling is on the woke no no list and has turned that guilty pleasure into
a grand Progressive statement and not a bad way to make some extra Moolah to justify continuing
to read the books this is the laziest stupidest form of left-wing activism I've ever come across
and trust me as we all know flum has some stiff competition in that Arena I mean who could forget
actress and action activist Alyssa Milano and her strangely pro-life sex strike in 2019. our
Reproductive Rights are being erased until women have legal control over our own bodies
we just cannot risk pregnancy join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back
I am calling for a hashtag sex strike pass it on thank you Alyssa for agreeing with what pro-lifers
have been saying for forever if you really don't want to get pregnant don't have sex but I digress
look I think I'm beginning to really understand the Crux of the work backlash against JK Rowling
Beyond simply the fact that she had the goal to say no to the trans Act of his Lobby which is a
massive Boo-boo in Lefty land see the Harry Potter books have some very typically Progressive themes
in them like fighting oppressors liberating the underclasses like the house elves Revolution and
so on which is strikingly different to the Hunger Games which is an anti-war pro-family
dissertation on how government overreach inevitably leads to tyranny and that if the
government has the Monopoly on weapons then citizens are left defenseless at the hands
of an all-powerful centralized state power that will absolutely use that power for evil not good
who wants me to make a video on why the Hunger Games is basically a love letter to the right
wing anyway as I was saying Harry Potter is very Progressive I mean I've even had discussions
with people who Muse that one of the reasons that Millennials and look I guess Generation Z are such
unprecedentedly left-wing Generations God help us and our remaining so as Millennials hit their 40s
is because of the influence of Harry Potter so I think it stands to reason that a lot of these
young people just assumed that JK Rowling whom they have formed an enormous emotional attachment
to in childhood and Adolescence I mean as Flom States all that stuff about finding safety in the
Harry Potter books was also a progressive which she is on a lot of things but not evidently on
what is currently the make or break Progressive issue aside from you know climate change
fanaticism and that is that gender is a spectrum the biological sex doesn't matter that trans women
are the same as women and should therefore be entitled to the same resources and the same
spaces as women and when it turned out that JK Rowling wasn't on board with all of that well
remember these are the generations who were never told no never told they were
wrong always got a participation Trophy and immersed themselves in online forums where
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activism requires sacrifice if law form and those who buy the rebound son's rolling books
were truly dedicated they would Faithfully sacrifice the pleasure of reading Harry
Potter for the cause not scramble to find a very expensive way to have their cake and eat it too
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