The LGBT+ publication Pink News announced it as “a cis male serial killer who dresses as a woman to kill his cis female victims.” (“Cis” is an abbreviation for “ cisgender,” meaning “not transgender.”) It’s the fifth novel in a series featuring the fictional detective Cormoran Strike. Troubled Blood was released yesterday (September 15, 2020) under J. Rowling’s work and have even less now, I had a reason to pick up her latest book, and I have a reason to tell you about it. Nonetheless, I can make a general statement that readers should feel warmly and gently invited to avoid supporting a billionaire author who has recently chosen to use her enormous platform to denigrate transgender people. That process might be personal, and it might play out differently for different people. I won’t start a fight about that I was never a Harry Potter fan, so I cannot “give up” something that I never had, and I don’t feel I can tell others exactly how to part with something they care about. Many people have fond memories of Harry Potter, and they do not wish to give up this fantasy world that meant a great deal to them. They are on her website and her Twitter account.Īs a result, a large number of transgender people and their allies have expressed a collective desire to stop consuming her work (or at least to avoid paying for it or otherwise to refrain from amplifying or encouraging her as an author). I won’t repeat them here, but you can look them up if you like. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has recently made a series of anti-transgender statements. For other reasons.) In 2023, my feet are in recovery. I ran my first 5k in November 2015, and three months later I ran my first half-marathon.

I have been to Europe (Italy, Greece, England, and Iceland), the Middle East (Israel), Asia (India) and Africa (South Africa). Within the Americas, I’ve also traveled to Canada, Mexico, and Paraguay. I’ve lived in the US, where I was born, and Colombia, where I moved as an adult. My husband, Arturo Serrano, is the author of the alternate history novel To Climates Unknown (2021), reviewed in the magazine Strange Horizons. I came to AWP in Philadelphia in March 2022 (check out my book haul!) and a month later visited Brown University for the 20th annual Casey Shearer Memorial Award event. I read my short story by invitation at Inkberry Books in Colorado in 2018 advocated for human rights in Massachusetts before the 2018 midterm elections traveled to Reykjavík, Iceland to represent Colombia at the 2019 Humanists International conference and spent a month journeying through India by train in 2019.

Painting Dragons by Tucker Lieberman