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Yet another woman - a writer - sacked after TRA campaign.

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WildishBambino · 01/07/2020 16:12

Having seen Hachette and the Blair Partnership stand up for JKR, I had some hope for the publishing industry.

There's a series of children's books called The Warrior Cats. Proper children's books, aimed at the 8-12 age range, and not part of YA fiction. Published by Harper Collins, but put together by Working Partners.

The books are written by 'Erin Hunter' which is collective pseudonym for a bunch of female writers. One of which was a Scottish writer Gillian Philip.

When JKR was attacked, Philip changed her twitter handle to include a message of support. This attracted the ire of the TRAs and also it appears the Furries (because of the anthropomorphic cats I assume). She received a huge amount of sexualised abuse via Twitter, which she just retweeted and said 'Bring it on homophobes and lesbian-haters'.

Her twitter feed is now gone, but you can view a cache <a class="break-all" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qisq_6YhRvwJ:twitter.com/Gillian_Philip+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b-d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here

As she wouldn't recant, the TRAs facilitated a mass spamming of complaints to her employer Working Partners.

Within 24 hours James Noble is the managing editor at Working Partners personally emailed complainants to say she was sacked.

This really doesn't seem to have been picked up by the media, presumably because it involves a children's author far less well-known than JKR. But it shows what happens to women who step out of line when they aren't too big to cancel.

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JemimaShore · 01/07/2020 16:23

God this makes me feel sick.

WildishBambino · 01/07/2020 16:22

And the TRAs and Furries were accusing her of doxxing them - because she retweeted their abuse!

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PumbaasCucumbas · 01/07/2020 16:17

Spineless!
Flowers Gillian

littlbrowndog · 01/07/2020 16:16

Ofgs.

What the fuck is going on in this country when women are being sacked for receiving sexual abuse

VickyEadieofThigh · 01/07/2020 16:16

Their tactics are nothing less than a type of online mass assault. Shocking.

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