Antiracist Author To Head Antiracist Research At Boston University
Certainly you’ve seen the anti-racist book lists everyone is posting amidst the ongoing demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice. Making an appearance on all the lists I’ve seen is Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist. Now the scholar and author will be launching the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University on July 1st. You can also look forward to his upcoming children’s book Antiracist Baby (that cover!), and don’t forget he has a back catalog: Stamped from the Beginning; The Black Campus Movement.
J.K. Rowling Uses Twitter To Make Transphobic Statements. Again.
You would hope J.K. Rowling would use her massive platform to help with any of the ongoing crises, but she instead decided to start by mocking a headline because it said “for people who menstruate.” This is not her first time publicly making transphobic statements. Many fans, celebrities, and organizations decried her hateful comments, explaining the harm she’s doing “preaching ‘an ideology which willfully distorts facts about gender identity and people who are trans.'” She has not apologized, but, rather, appears to want this harmful behavior to be the hill she dies on.
Comedy Women in Print Shortlist Announced
English comedian, writer, and actress Helen Lederer was fed up with the Wodehouse prize only having awarded four women the comic fiction award in twenty years. So she set up the Comedy Women in Print prize to help tackle the sexist notion that women aren’t funny. Irish writer Marian Keyes chaired this year’s judges and we now have a shortlist of seven novels vying for the award.