Onjali Rauf came to visit our Year 7 students when I was still teaching. She was absolutely brilliant and a great role model for the students (as is JKR, but I don't think she's doing school visits). It makes me both sad and angry that anyone who disagrees with the fashionable proscribed views (gender ideology in the case) has to be cancelled by these "moral arbiters". Good to see other authors to speak up.
Gender ideology is built on the dangerous fiction that children can be born in the wrong body and humans can change sex. Those who subscribe to this nonsense hide behind the hashtag of No Debate. They have to because debate would expose the egregious falsehoods they espouse, so rely on fear, censorship and ruining careers and reputations instead. That publishing has not only allowed this, but cheered it on, is disgraceful.
Isn’t it time for some sort of legal challenge as we have seen with Sex Matters and Graham Linehan? The press is beginning to crawl out of the boulders that have been pinning them down and might even do a bit of good old fashioned reporting
It is why SEEN in Publishing exists -- to fight against the Spiral of Silence and censorious but highly vocal minority. The foundation stone of publishing is freedom of expression or the right to hold views which may not entirely accord with someone else's. There is no one ideal reader but rather many readers who can be touched and moved by depictions of the human experience.
So sad to see that Gay's The Word has been captured by this nonsense. Of all places they should be the last to want to 'trans away the gay'. Maybe a little education from the likes of Bev Jeckson and Simon Fanshawe.
Gay's The Word is the innocent party in this and was simply mentioned. The micro bookshop with carefully curated children's books by a self-proclaimed expert in children's books, Little Literary Society . It should not be confused with the admirable Little Literacy Library which seeks to increase literacy in India either.
Onjali Rauf came to visit our Year 7 students when I was still teaching. She was absolutely brilliant and a great role model for the students (as is JKR, but I don't think she's doing school visits). It makes me both sad and angry that anyone who disagrees with the fashionable proscribed views (gender ideology in the case) has to be cancelled by these "moral arbiters". Good to see other authors to speak up.
Gender ideology is built on the dangerous fiction that children can be born in the wrong body and humans can change sex. Those who subscribe to this nonsense hide behind the hashtag of No Debate. They have to because debate would expose the egregious falsehoods they espouse, so rely on fear, censorship and ruining careers and reputations instead. That publishing has not only allowed this, but cheered it on, is disgraceful.
Isn’t it time for some sort of legal challenge as we have seen with Sex Matters and Graham Linehan? The press is beginning to crawl out of the boulders that have been pinning them down and might even do a bit of good old fashioned reporting
It happens here on Substack; be woke or be quiet. And it's mostly Americans! What happened to personal freedom?
It is why SEEN in Publishing exists -- to fight against the Spiral of Silence and censorious but highly vocal minority. The foundation stone of publishing is freedom of expression or the right to hold views which may not entirely accord with someone else's. There is no one ideal reader but rather many readers who can be touched and moved by depictions of the human experience.
So sad to see that Gay's The Word has been captured by this nonsense. Of all places they should be the last to want to 'trans away the gay'. Maybe a little education from the likes of Bev Jeckson and Simon Fanshawe.
Gay's The Word is the innocent party in this and was simply mentioned. The micro bookshop with carefully curated children's books by a self-proclaimed expert in children's books, Little Literary Society . It should not be confused with the admirable Little Literacy Library which seeks to increase literacy in India either.