Since I was asked: Yes, reclaiming things can be cool, & certainly I personally still love things that have problematic creators & are problematic themselves (see: Firefly).
We've done acts in @RaksGeek where we fixed the casting & reclaimed problematic shows like Iron Fist.
We've done acts in @RaksGeek where we fixed the casting & reclaimed problematic shows like Iron Fist.
Everyone's lines are different though.
A personal thing: I still love Ender's Game & Speaker for the Dead. But I haven't read newer work from Orson Scott Card in over a decade.
His homophobia was too much - it went beyond just not wanting to support him as a creator and into poisoning his work for me.
His homophobia was too much - it went beyond just not wanting to support him as a creator and into poisoning his work for me.
It's violence against people I care about, and after a certain point, knowing this, I couldn't enjoy his (newer) work anymore.
So - everyone's lines are different. For @RaksGeek as a group and a whole, the latest from #JKRowling was ours.
So - everyone's lines are different. For @RaksGeek as a group and a whole, the latest from #JKRowling was ours.
If an individual in our group wants to reclaim Harry Potter outside of our shows on their own time, they're absolutely free to do so - each person has their own relationship with those stories. If you who are reading this want to reclaim HP, you'll get no judgment from me.
(But it's also true that ultimately I'm not in the group most hurt by Rowling, and people I care about are. If you're cis and a Potterhead, it's worth sitting with that too.)
So a moratorium on Harry Potter was where #RaksGeek decided to stand as a group in our joint space.
So a moratorium on Harry Potter was where #RaksGeek decided to stand as a group in our joint space.
Safe spaces don't happen by accident, folks. You have to fight for them.
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