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

That is appalling.

Instead of buying a book my kids are too old to read, is there an organisation out there saying what JK is saying?

I went for the kindle option- Bad Faith sounds very much my kind of thing. I wasn't sure which of the others were solely hers.

Thanks, @TobyYoung.

I can't believe we suddenly live in a world where women pointing out we're stakeholders in our legal definition, and Equality Act rights, is deemed hate speech. Just surreal.

Well, Bad Faith is sold out, so I bought it on back order. Managed to get a copy of the first of her fantasy series of novels, though - sounds right up my eldest's street, and it was listed for various prizes, too.

Just bought Bad Faith. I imagine she will be pleased to gain new readers as well as the few pence it puts in her pocket. And it seems like it could be a very appropriate book for the times!

[quote TobyYoung]Gillian has got in touch with the Free Speech Union and we're seeing what we can to help.

Quite a few gender critical feminists have joined the FSU, perhaps because they saw us standing up for Selina Todd when she was no-platformed at Oxford.

If you go to the Blogs section of our website, you can see how we've tried to help Stella Perrett and Posey Parker.

freespeechunion.org/blog/[/quote]
Thanks Toby and welcome to Mumsnet!

This is awful to read. My children both absolutely adore Gillian's Ravenstorm Island books.

Gillian has got in touch with the Free Speech Union and we're seeing what we can to help.

Quite a few gender critical feminists have joined the FSU, perhaps because they saw us standing up for Selina Todd when she was no-platformed at Oxford.

If you go to the Blogs section of our website, you can see how we've tried to help Stella Perrett and Posey Parker.

freespeechunion.org/blog/

Why aren't comedians who have done blackface and been racist for years getting sacked? Why does it take years for LBC to notice that Hopkins and Farage are awful racists and that they should maybe sack them, when TRAs can target and get women authors cancelled at the drop of a hat?

More importantly, how do we communicate with people who support cancellation culture to get them to see why it's such a problem before something they care about is canceled?

I just wanted to pop by and say that I spotted a name on the Scottish letter of a female author that I read during university.
I enjoyed her novel and it made me smile to see her name there.
I won’t name her (for obvious reasons), but sending .

Bravelands also appear to be written by the collective "Erin Hunter" though. I don't want to send a message that I support the publisher that ousted Gillian for supporting women.

Bravelands are also Gillian's books and a sales spike might send the best protest to HC. Children's publishers are always banging on abut the 'gatekeepers', the people who buy books on behalf of children. They seem to have forgotten that the vast majority of gatekeepers are women, not the woke kids who they employ now that they have sacked senior staff!

Brilliant idea.
I just bought if from a link via her website .

She gets brilliant reviews for her books. Might be nice if the Blair Partnership were to take her on.

Just to be clear, the writers who work on Warrior Cats are not a collective, they are all employed by HC and it is HC and HC only who made the decision to push Gillian off a cliff to appease the trans activists howling for her blood because she simply added a hashtag that said she agreed with JK Rowling. So our protests should be directed solely at them.

Bad Faith is a very good book, no one who buys it will be disappointed!

This is a nice idea. We could also leave positive reviews, having done so. I have loved it in the past when women have rallied round businesses and people who have been attacked.

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

It's a fecking joke

Bad Faith is a very good book, no one who buys it will be disappointed! What makes me utterly furious about the sacking of Gillian Philip is that she has never made a transphobic comment or any hate speech against trans people. But simply agreeing with another writer that sex cannot be wished away, is a sackable offence?! I am getting tired of this shit.

Hello all, I have been lurking since finding out about the whole JK Rowling saga. Hope it's alright if I join the MN sisterhood even if I'm a couple of years off from being a mum yet!

Could we support Gillian by all buying one of her books en masse? I'm not familiar with her work but looking on Amazon there is one called "Bad Faith" which could work. If anyone has an idea of how we could make an impact with something like that, my wallet is open and ready to support (another) brave female author!

Chris Snowdon is one of the directors. Charles Nettleton is the other.

Chris Snowdon is on LinkedIn.

Polite letters of support might be helpful. And no, she won’t be employed, she will be contracted to each individual book to which she contributes.

Young adult and teen books are the worst genre for this type of censorship. Those editing them employ “sensitivity readers”.

The original editor of Warriors was Victoria Holmes. The readers decided one of the stories she created did not fit with the canon and worse, one of the older cats had a relationship with one of the much younger cats. There were threats and death-wishes towards Holmes and an astonishing furore. Almost like a precursor to the reaction to JK Rowling.

www.reddit.com/r/WarriorCats/comments/67x9b2/out_of_the_loop_why_did_vicky_holmes_leave/

Wow. Just read that twitter cache. vile.
The Warrior Cats books are charming, children's adventures. Bit odd - cats being all co-operative in clans, but good fun. They were massively popular with my yr7s a couple of years ago, and still get borrowed.
The bizarre comments show that these books also (like HP) attract that strange 'adult' fandom, people who are now angry to find that one of the authors does not subscribe to their every quirk.
Unbelievable that a serious business would give these unhinged people any credence at all.
I mean, I've read a couple, and I can talk about them, but it's my job to know about children's literature; I don't invest my emotional well being in it....

Tbh, a list of publishers who have done this kind of thing would be useful. 'Who to avoid in publishing'.

Why are these big companies bowing down to these nobodies?

Gillian, if you are reading, I am so sorry this has happened to you. You were incredibly brave to speak up when thousands are too afraid.

She may not have an employment law claim, but her work collective will be covered by some sort of contract which may have been breached.

Lionel Shriver, JKR, Gillian. Where are the other GC authors? The big hitters need to be looking after the less well known. There needs to be a collective fight back. They can't take everyone down.