nd contact wellbeing” if they are distressed. Wellbeing? What fresh hell?
The truth is that trigger warnings – a lazy idea, largely imported from American campuses – are an embarrassing offshoot of the therapising of everyday life.
Joanne Harris, as it happens, is a big fan of gender ideology, and when head of the Society of Authors repeatedly failed to defend writers like Rowling, Rachel Rooney, Onjali Rauf, Julie Bindel and others who lost work and received death threats because of their gender critical views. Now she's not happy about Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel being asked to speak at a literary festival. With or without a trigger warning.
The former Chair of the @Soc_of_Authors finds it 'disappointing' that two published authors will speak at a literary festival. The suppression of #FreeSpeech, & support of cancellation & censorship, within the publishing/writing world is the reason I resigned from the SoA pic.twitter.com/qVZgtM9Hg5
— Fiona Graph (@fiona_graph) December 30, 2024
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