ab. 1893 Scrap album fancy dress by Madame Gough, London (court dressmaker), Sarah Ann Gough (designer)
silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint
(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.
But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.
Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.
It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.
Nobody is immune.
People easily mistake neurodivergent speech patterns and communication styles for run-of-the-mill pretentiousness.
Not sure how this works. I'll figure things out as I go. But for now, I hope what I have isn't difficult to navigate.
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