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Amy Hamm: Woke academics claim J.K. Rowling guilty of being Voldemort

They also accuse her of something called 'celebrified transphobia'

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Two Australian academics working in “celebrity studies” published an article this month that refers to J.K. Rowling’s fame in the past tense and argues that Rowling has morphed into the evil fictional supervillain of her own series.

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Rowling “was a global prestigious celebrity,” they wrote, but is now, on account of her tireless work to uphold the rights of girls and women, a “monarch dethroned,” and a “haughty TERF ‘champion.’” (TERF stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” and is a slur used to denounce those who dare question gender ideology.) The article, from academic journal “Celebrity Studies,” is titled “J.K. Rowling ‘embodies the divisive and bigoted evil she once created a boy wizard to defeat’: investigating celebrified transphobia using field analysis and audience research.”

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“Celebrified transphobia,” according to authors Sarah Scales and Joanna McIntyre, happens when “cis celebrities entering public discourse about trans people use their elevated social........

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