I will no longer be carrying Harry Potter licensed merchandise in my booth. This has been something that has weighed heavily with me since 2019 when I first learned of the author’s views*.
My first thought was to destroy the merchandise I had; but I do recognize the impact the books have had on some people and, they still hold the story very dearly in their hearts. To these fans, I do want to offer the merchandise I have at a significant discount. And by that I mean a lot purchase with a deadline. If it has not sold by the end of April, the lot will be destroyed, not donated.
March 31st, I will post all the images of the items in the lot. If the price I set is not taken seriously by April 30th, I will take great pleasure in destroying the items.
I will list the lot on Facebook Marketplace and here on my site. Any shipping will be an extra charge. Really, I just want the stuff gone.
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*She is actively using her platform and vast fortune to shape dangerous laws and policies that benefit her viewpoint but bring risk of violence and death to women and Trans women alike. She donated a Trans exclusionary women’s shelter to Scotland, even though Trans women are more at risk of deadlier violence than Cis women and are arguably more in need of shelter by being more vulnerable to the most extreme violence. She founded a charity, then funded two thirds of a goal under that charity to lobby a bathroom bill. A result of this bill passing was an increase of invasion of privacy transgressions and violence towards women, including the Cis women she claims to be a feminist advocate for. I have seen photos of one of her victims, a 19 year old Cis woman. The author has not looked at the direct result of the violence she has permitted men to have against women as they police women’s spaces with doxing and threats of violence. She advised taking photos of Trans women and posting them online to identify the men-in-women’s-spaces was the simple way to enforce the bathroom law. She posts transphobic tweets on her X account frequently. I could post more, but the rest is alleged.