What’s Present: The Free Press launches podcast on ‘The Witch Trials of JK Rowling,’ hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper

• The Free Press is launching a brand new podcast collection referred to as, “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling.” Hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper, who famously left the Westboro Baptist Church 10 years in the past, figuring out she would lose her household and group in consequence, episodes will discover not solely the well-known “Harry Potter” writer’s story and expertise talking up in protection of girls (and in opposition to gender id ideology), but additionally varied sides of the trans debate, the Christian boycott of Harry Potter within the Nineties, and specialists on witch trials. The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling will start on Tuesday, February 21, all over the place podcasts can be found.
• The case towards Norwegian artist Tonje Gjevjon has been dropped. The lesbian filmmaker was underneath investigation for breach of the Norwegian Hate Speech Regulation, dealing with as much as three years in jail for saying males can’t be lesbians or moms.
• The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Challenge is urging the scientific group substitute phrases like “father” and “mom” with “mum or dad,” “egg donor,” and “sperm donor.” The EEB, which incorporates scientists in america and Canada, includes a listing of the “prime 24 dangerous phrases” on their web site, which incorporates man, girl, mom, father, primitive, invasive and “survival of the fittest.”

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