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

[WildishBambino]

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.

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

Ofgs.

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

Spineless!
Gillian

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

God this makes me feel sick.

They do the Daisy Meadows Fairy books and Beast Quest too iirc. Another one for the boycott list.

Someone said it else-where, but this absolutely is terrorism. Do as you're told or we'll destroy you.

They can't be allowed to win. We can't let bullies like this win.

Wtf. I can't understand them caving in to this spam campaign. Lets face it trans community don't read a lot of children's fiction?

Time to start emailing them?
I only found this, does anyone have an email address?
www.workingpartners.com/contact-us/

That is absolutely outrageous. Why was she sacked?

Does she have a wrongful dismissal case perhaps?

As she wouldn't recant

It's just incredible. Shameful capitulation.

The site for Working Partners given above seems to be a US based company, not in publishing or literature. A quick google gives this : coolabi.com/about-us/#contact

It would be good to hear from her to find out what she wants us to do to support her. Do you know her OP?

This seems to be her www.gillianphilip.com/

She also seems to write a lot of novels under her own name

working partners
[email protected]
Working Partners Ltd
9 Kingsway, 4th Floor
London,
WC2B 6XF

What the hell?

That is terrible. Where has the story come from?

Yes, this is why women writers are right at the bloody pinch point here.

Horribly aware of threats to freedom of speech; in a v v woke industry; precariously employed

I hope she takes them to an employment tribunal if possible, and wipes the floor with them (will depend on contract type I assume).

The TRA's seem to get their own way a lot.... why is that?

TRAs and furries come across as stunted emotionally, trapped in their niche fantasies and demanding that the real world accommodates them "Or else".

How many furries are there in Yemen? How do the TRAs of Kurdistan cope with the hospital bombings?

But yes, a great win for the shrieking online mob, a woman punished and vilified for what they believe we all are - disposable and evil.

I know a little about Coolabi & Working Partners. Both companies are in the business of acquiring and exploiting rights. Coolabi mainly buy the rights to animation series, some originally made for TV. Working Rights for books. It seems to me that Gillian Philip may have been a member of a collective contracted to Working Partners, so it appears that the collective got rid of her, rather than WP having fired her. Such solidarity among women once the sh!t hits the fan!

Petrifying.

I'm really saddened by all this.

This is awful.

Do you think this author, less well known and influential than JKR, has been targeted as a sort of whipping boy, just because they could? A proxy victim because they couldn't get Rowling herself sacked?