JK Rowling - Women’s Fund

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https://jkrwf.org/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKdvNljbGNrAp26GGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMVhFYkVUMVlETmNnb3NRM2YBHpCylZCyqT-dSAcjqzcghgBSrl8tIO_sNX3dgcFvY5leoMkcTzlQEUHionpy_aem_HyMGvqrZM5nRn93ZKNrRMg

For anyone who wasn't sure if the Fund was real (and to be fair, I tend to be a bit wary about stuff like this too until I see confirmation), JKR has confirmed that it is. If you look at her replies on her Twitter account, she confirmed it yesterday.

Birdy's partner has just had a venue cancel on him 'because of his views'...

There's all manner of licensed HP merch for kids and adults alike. Time to start my Christmas shopping list.

It's levelled the playing field. For years the law was misrepresented and misapplied. Now we have clarification of what it has always been but many places will continue to act illegally, prioritising male wants over female needs, because women will be intimidated and scared at the procedure, which is itself the punishment. With the financials covered, women can come as much more equal matches (they still won't have the backing of clown army Amnesty International and so on) when they're being illegally shat on.

In what may or may not be a coincidence, one of the UK GC crowdfunders I 've supported over the last few months is now closed to donations although according to Crowdjustice it's still quite a way from its stretch target. The others are still open.

I know, the utter twats!

As a former major donor to Stonewall, I stopped my donations when I worked out a decade ago they were no longer supporting the rights of lesbians. So, yes, some of us homos are Gender Critical.

One of the most entertaining things since JKR joined the fight five years ago is witnessing the almighty temper tantrums from TRAs who can't bear the fact that a woman has the audacity, not only to make a lot of money through her own talent and hard work, but then to use that money to support other women. They absolutely cannot bear it, can they? And yet it doesn't matter how much the scream and shout and name call, she doesn't give a fuck. She keeps on doing the right thing. It must really hurt.

The thing is, JKR can fund the fights but she can't win them just with her money. She's not bribing judges, she's just giving people resources to match all the institutions that have been stripping women of their rights for years.

Without her, we would still win through crowdfunding - we are having all these wins because we're right and there are a lot of us, not because she's a lone wolf with an agenda nobody cares about who's buying the court system - but God it would take much longer, be much harder and even more people would have been ruined in the process.

Absolutely this.

No one could object to this unless they object to women having access to justice and the rights and protections they hold in law. If they are not being treated in a discriminatory way, if they are not in the right by law, then they won't have a case no matter how much money gets involved. The application makes clear that the board will identify first that there is a case in considering applications for funding. So any whinging will be entirely about how wrong it is that women have rights.

That woman is amazing. Thank you JKR, women should not have to be able to afford to fight for their rights in 2025, and many of those fights will be against government funded organisations, but they do have to, and this will enable the case law needed to protect all women as well as the ones that go through the hell of insisting their rights and protections exist in practice as well as on paper.

I really can't stand Harry Potter but now I find myself shopping for all the books. 😂

That's so true. It's been so wonderful over the past few years so see women take these big organisations to court and win, backed purely by small donations (£20 here, £30 there) from individual women determined to see justice done. The pinnacle of all this was the FWS victory at the Supreme Court - three brave, ordinary women defeating the might of the Scottish government with all those resources at its fingertips.

But it's also true of course that there must be many, many women who lost their job or had to put up with a man in their changing room who didn't have the mental energy for a court case, and who just ended up walking away or putting up with it. These are the women who now know that if they want to fight, the money is there for them - they don't have to put themselves in the spotlight to crowdfund.

I am so looking forward to seeing these women, backed by the weight of Supreme Court ruling and the substantial monies of the JK Rowling fund, teach those smug, self-righteous, woman-hating organisations the lesson they deserve.

Jo, I know you're on here, hope you're reading how grateful we all are that you are doing this to support all women. I could kiss you!!

Fantastic 😊

I suspect there will still be many areas where women will need to crowdfund.

I suspect that some resources that were earmarked for women will be done away with, out of spite that men can no longer claim them.

So we may need to build up from scratch again resources such as refuges just for women.

Is this true?What an amazing, kind beautiful soul. What a woman ! Oh thank you Jo Rowling ! So generous and good !

x.com/jk_rowling/status/1926190807779787015?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

"women raising their voices, writing to their MPs, turning out to demonstrate, donating what they can to crowfunders of women fighting the Gender Goliath remains essential if we’re going to reclaim rights we didn’t know we’d have to fight for all over again."

Don't worry Jo, we will!

Although I think I'm blocked by my MP/MSPs as I email them so often about gender shite. 😂😂

I think the next Strike book is out in September which I will pre-order if I can. The full set sits on the bookcase in the living room.

Not your money, not your concern

The fund isn’t for this

Just to put this in context, JKR is worth £975M. Even if she didn't do anything (like say, publish a bestselling book every year or have a major TV series in the works or get royalties from a billion dollar franchise) she would still be getting richer by £50M+ a year just on it sitting in the bank. She could put that £50M behind a legal fund and not even have to change her energy supplier or look into getting a smaller yacht.

This is major (I'm not saying she has to put that much money into the fund).

I would also suggest that if the TRAs are so concerned about this, maybe they should be writing to Pedro Pascal or the Harry Potter stars (Dan Radcliffe is worth £100M) and see if they can put their money where their mouth is.

This is truly incredible. I work for a local authority and their policy for spaces such as toilets, changing rooms is that employees use the space that best fits their gender identity. I’ve remained quiet because I need my job.

I've been thinking.

What were the chances of a female author of children's books being creative and savvy enough to become a world famous billionaire?

Then being so smart as to be able to turn her hand to the kind of business making that most people can only dream of, thereby creating an unprecedented, global uber industry all on the back of her own invention.

Whilst simultaneously being sagely politically minded and a bloody raging feminist, who totally gets it.

And then determinedly joining the figure heads of one of the most important campaigns women have ever had to wage.

And THEN bloody offering to finance it!

What on earth were the chances??

Female, creative, smart, rich, philanthropic, and totally on our side!

I'd say it was like it was written in the stars, except it wasn't.

It was written by J. K. Rowling.

The good news is JKR has also managed to complete Strike No 8 The Hanged Man - out in September.

I vaguely remembered the same thing.

Glad it’s got more publicity because unfortunately many organisations are not following the Law.

She really is a superhero of a woman.