Museum proprietors are casting a memory charm.
The Seattle-based Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) removed all mention of JK Rowling from their “Harry Potter” exhibit after calling her a “cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity,” in line with a blog post that was posted in May.
Project manager Chris Moore, who’s transgender, authored the piece and claimed that they might “like to go along with the web’s theory that these books were actually written without an creator.”
“But this certain person is a bit too vocal along with her super hateful and divisive views to be ignored,” continued the post. “In the interim, the curators decided to remove any of her artifacts from this gallery to cut back her impact.”
“It’s not an ideal solution, but it surely’s what we were in a position to do within the short-term while determining long-term practices.”
The Day by day Mail has reported that MoPOP has kept the “Harry Potter” memorabilia on display, but Rowling’s name is just not mentioned anywhere within the exhibit.
Moore’s post continues to indicate other ways in which Rowling, 58, has supported antisemitic creators and mentions that while writing “Potter,” the creator included several racial stereotypes — reminiscent of the goblins of Gringotts, whose depiction has been in comparison with the Jewish community, or the undeniable fact that everyone within the books seemed to be white, in addition to the shortage of LGBTQ representation — and thus fostering a “super-chill outlook on the bigotry.”
“MoPOP is proud to support our employees and unequivocally stands with nonbinary and transgender communities,” the museum told The Telegraph. “In an increasingly divided world, popular culture can unite, encourage, and spark essential conversations.”
“Education and inventive expression are the guts of our mission and in our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, we attempt to raise those which might be omitted of the mainstream popular culture conversation, by amplifying voices and stories that are usually not at all times seen on museum partitions.” continued the post.
The Post reached out to MoPOP and Rowling for comment.
Rowling went viral in 2020 after retweeting an op-ed piece that discussed “individuals who menstruate” and was seemingly offended that the article didn’t use the term “women.”
“‘Individuals who menstruate.’ I’m sure there was a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she wrote, facetiously.
The initial tweet went viral and sparked outrage amongst lots of her fans.
Since then, many “Potter” actors, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, have attempted to distance themself from the creator for perpetuating trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) views, which aim to attract political distinctions between trans women and those that are born female and discover as a girl.
Meanwhile, Ralph Fiennes, Miriam Margolyes, Robbie Coltrane and Evanna Lynch have maintained support for Rowling and her work.
Earlier this 12 months, Rowling claimed that her comments were “profoundly” misunderstood.
“I never got down to upset anyone,” she said within the trailer for her forthcoming podcast, “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling.”
“Nevertheless, I used to be not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal.”
Since then, more fans have threatened to boycott the upcoming Max remake of “Harry Potter” where Rowing serves as an executive producer.
The embattled creator then snarkily responded saying that she plans to “lay in champagne” while activists boycott.
“Dreadful news, which I feel duty certain to share. Activists in my mentions try to prepare one more boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show, Rowling cheekily shared on X. “As forewarned is forearmed, I’ve taken the precaution of laying in a big stock of champagne.”