Writer JK Rowling, creator of “Harry Potter”, has created new controversy in bookstores. His second consecutive book aimed at transgender activists, “The Ink Black Heart,” revolves around the murder of an artist who has been canceled due to transphobia.
Released on Tuesday (8/30) in the United States, the work is a mysterious new book about the character of Cormoran Strike, which Rowling writes under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. In the storyline, Strike investigates the death of Edie Ledwell, creator of a popular cartoon that is described on social media as racist, transphobic and capable after making a joke about an intersex earthworm. She receives threats and turns to the police, who deny help. She then she is found dead.
While the relationship between the character’s criticism and what happens to the writer herself is evident, since she started fighting transsexuals in 2019, Rowling says any resemblance to real life is purely coincidental.
In an interview with reporter Graham Norton’s show, she swore she wrote “The Ink Black Heart” before being accused of transphobia.
“I wrote the book before certain things happened to me on the Internet. I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone will see it as a response to what happened to me,’ but it really isn’t,” said the author. .
In the interview, JK Rowling says she came up with the idea for the story about three years ago, which coincides exactly with the date she began marrying transphobic views and being hated by former fans and even cast members of “Blood”. movie. Harry Potter “.
In its review, Rolling Stone magazine stated that Rowling “has a clear goal in focusing on the” warriors of social justice “and suggests that Ledwell was the victim of a masterfully planned and politically fueled hate campaign against her.”
“The Ink Black Heart” is the sixth volume in JK Rowling’s crime novel series and is expected to be released in Brazil by the end of the year by publisher Rocco.
In the fifth book, “Sangue Revolto,” the writer had already given vent to her daydreams against transsexuals, creating a serial killer – a cis man – who wore women’s clothes to kill women. Before publishing this book, she expressed concern that transgender people may sexually abuse cisgender women in bathrooms. According to Jake Kerridge, critic of the British newspaper The Telegaph, the book reinforced this message with the following moral of the story: “never trust a man in a suit”.
Rowling signs this collection of mystery books as Robert Galbraith, who was the name of an American psychiatrist famous for experimenting with sexual conversion therapy in the 1950s. The real Galbraith even claimed to have successfully converted a homosexual patient.
Source: Terra
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