![]() ![]() Our identities are always going to be bound up with the stuff we create, even if we aren't explicitly writing about our own marginalizations, and we're highly dependent on our own communities to support us. ![]() So I have to start off by confessing that this hypothetical separation of the person from the thing they created always rankles me a little bit - because I don't think marginalized creators, including trans creators, ever quite get that luxury. You just pull at the top right corner and tug gently, and the artist just sort of peels away from the art, leaving the art sticky and ready to adhere to whatever surface you desire.Īctually, wait. The newspaper ended up wanting to go in a different direction, which is something that happens - so I'm going to share my thoughts with you here instead.Īs you know, the art and the artist are easily separated. And I'm still proud of this episode of Our Opinions Are Correct where we talked to Harry Potter superfan Cecilia Tan.īut a newspaper asked me to pitch them an op-ed about this game and Rowling, and one of the angles they were interested in hearing about was "separating the art from the artist." That's a topic I do have a lot of thoughts about, so I threw together a pretty detailed outline for an op-ed. And over at Assigned Media, Evan Urquhart has a great response to the notion that a few minor, highly ambiguous gestures towards trans inclusion in the game make it okay after all. ![]() This review from Wired gives a pretty good rundown of how disappointing the game actually is, even if you don't care that some of the money from the game will go to notorious transphobe J.K. ![]() I honestly wasn't going to comments on this game at all, because others have already spoken up with way more eloquence and insight than I could ever muster. In case you've been living under some kind of magical rock, there's a new Harry Potter tie-in video game out now, called Hogwarts Legacy. ![]()
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