The Museum of Pop Culture (Mopop) in Seattle has scrubbed its Harry Potter exhibits of all mention of the author of the books, J.K. Rowling, due to her transphobic views.
The decision was made several months ago, but only came to widespread attention last week, when a London-based journalist contacted Mopop about a 26 May blog post on the museum’s website, titled “She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”, which recounts some of the author’s public comments in recent years and ends by stating that her name has been removed from Harry Potter displays in the exhibition Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic and related artefacts taken out of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
The blog post’s writer, a transgender employee at the museum and self-described “Harry Potter ex-fanatic”, calls Rowling a “cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity” and her views “super hateful and divisive”. “We learned that You-Know-Who was a problem, which is why you’ll see the artefacts without any mention or image of the author,” the blog post reads, adding that Rowling’s name remains in the museum’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, as she “was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 before she became the face of trans-exclusionary radical feminism … For the time being, the curators decided to remove any of her artefacts from this gallery to reduce her impact. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s what we were able to do in the short-term while determining long-term practices.”
[They should remove the entire exhibit if the AUTHOR is so troubling to them. But, no, because THAT would affect their bottom line, wouldn’t it. Such frauds. ~ Beege]
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