The Potential and Limits for Call-Out Culture as an Activist Practice: How the Internet Tried to Hold J. K. Rowling Accountable For Her TERF’ism

By Chloë Arkenbout, June 8, 2022

“‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” When world-famous author J. K. Rowling posted a trans*phobic tweet in 2020 (see Fig. 1) the internet exploded. Rowling her tweet clearly exposed her problematic views on trans* people. TERF’s (trans*-exclusionary radical feminists), like [...]