Impressive list is signatureS. Such a pity the high profile authors are absent. Same with high profiles actors. Terrified for their livelihoods, but no bottom!
Could you please help us understand why you haven’t mentioned here any of the other Black, Asian and Middle Eastern women writers who have also received multiple death threats but sit on opposing sides of the debates around gender rights and identification to you? Wouldn’t it be proper to do so if your aim here is to tackle the terrible upswing of threats and intimidation targeting women writers, regardless of their positions in the conflicts around gender? Or are you, by this assumedly deliberate omission, implicitly suggesting that only SOME women deserve support against such hideous threats? It seems very partial to not to have named them too, considering the similarly high profile nature of the attacks on them. Women writers should absolutely be supported against threats and intimidation, but a proper defence of freedom of speech should involve ALL women writers, surely, not just the ones you agree with? Please explain.
A good guide to transphobes who approve of the awful bullying of Joanne Harris and her family after deliberately misrepresenting what she said, truly abhorrent behavior and this is a continuation of it.
Impressive list is signatureS. Such a pity the high profile authors are absent. Same with high profiles actors. Terrified for their livelihoods, but no bottom!
Thanks to everyone who has signed so far. We will aim to update the list once a day, so do please be patient with us!
As an author I would like to add my name to this letter
So so tired of the abject cowardice around this. Have mailed to add my name.
It's not very clear from the post how to sign up to the letter, but I would like to do so
Very inspiring. Thank you. Glad to see there are still many writers who have not lost their integrity and courage!
Thank you. Email sent from a non-fiction author and former SoA member.
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Oh. Authors to avoid. Thanks.
Could you please help us understand why you haven’t mentioned here any of the other Black, Asian and Middle Eastern women writers who have also received multiple death threats but sit on opposing sides of the debates around gender rights and identification to you? Wouldn’t it be proper to do so if your aim here is to tackle the terrible upswing of threats and intimidation targeting women writers, regardless of their positions in the conflicts around gender? Or are you, by this assumedly deliberate omission, implicitly suggesting that only SOME women deserve support against such hideous threats? It seems very partial to not to have named them too, considering the similarly high profile nature of the attacks on them. Women writers should absolutely be supported against threats and intimidation, but a proper defence of freedom of speech should involve ALL women writers, surely, not just the ones you agree with? Please explain.
Oh I found a link. Here is a much nicer letter than this silly Julie Bintel one.
https://melindasalisbury.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/an-open-letter-to-the-society-of-authors-regardining-joanne-harris/
A good guide to transphobes who approve of the awful bullying of Joanne Harris and her family after deliberately misrepresenting what she said, truly abhorrent behavior and this is a continuation of it.
I agree with this letter entirely.
I do always appreciate being given a concise list of fools and crackpots. Saves me a lot of paperwork.
Add me. I'm an author of 5 books.
Kerstin Rodgers, msmarmitelover.com
Thank you so much for putting this all together! This is wonderful to see.