A quiet act of resistance.

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Well done Jean Hatchet
Hardwick Hall mounts an exhibition
Material Power is a celebration of tapestry, embroidery and appliqué. Rewoven presents contemporary textile works that respond to, or work in conversation with, the historic surroundings and context of Hardwick Hall.

Displayed throughout the house and aligning with the key themes of Bess’s textile displays, they present and explore aspects of female experiences, identities and power. Connecting with stories told within Hardwick’s historic collection, they also offer reflection on the materiality and cultural symbolism of working with textiles.

"A trans activist stitched blue and pink colours over JK Rowling’s name. Everyone had contributed a name of a notable woman and just one name had been chosen to be erased. The trust and the artist let this nasty act stand. So I rectified it to the original intention of the woman who embroidered it."

https://x.com/JeanHatchet/status/1928853736732110921?t=vWcWLRFC9o56h18MlxACUg&s=19

Injustice corrected

x.com/JeanHatchet/status/1928791016909279683?t=YQ823sghYXT70YwBHQEn2w&s=19

Well done Jean!

I think I love her!❤️❤️❤️

Good for her.
It's incredible how transactivists can never let an acknowledgement of a woman stand. They have to smear, bully. intimidate, threaten, change, remove or deface anything that women value.

I expect the usual suspects will rock up shortly on this thread to whine about JKR and women on here daring to acknowledge how much she's respected.

Well done mighty Jean 💚👍🫵🫶💐

Very brave, well done Jean Hatchet!
Crossing out JKR's name with trans colours - spiteful and petty.

My word of the moment is 'spiteful' because I think it sums up perfectly the tone of TRAs responses to the SC ruling. And other acts like this one. Petty and immature.

I saw the original thread about jkr name being stitched over but don’t realise Jean & co had corrected it 😁

Excellent - I seriously doubt Florence Nightingale whose name is nearby (not stitched over) would believe men can become women on saying magical words either.

I can't believe the National Trust let this stand once they were told about it. They should have removed the over stitch themselves.

Well done, Jean.

I love this, thank you Jean and Lex

I mean, it’s the National Trust, sooo…

Thank you Jean, and well done for filming it and publicising this.

That this had been done was pointed out to the NT, who said it was all about audience engagement and they weren't regulating who wanted to add or do whatever. So they can hardly complain now that another woman has also equally expressed herself on this and engaged, without looking hypocrites and using public funds to be enforce political exclusion.

So good to see more women getting braver. Tiny acts of rebellion from the terf resistance!

Jean and Lex 😍😍

Righting a wrong, nice. 😁👏

Nice one Jean! More power to your elbow.

Hmm. Where does "audience engagement" end and vandalism begin? They're saying that defacing by stitching is ok, but what about scribbling with a feltpen? Throwing soup? Snipping bits out? I wonder, were the women who contributed these pieces warned in advance that the visitors would be let loose on them to express themselves?

Well done!

I love her.

Glad to see this. I saw this piece at Easter, before the name had been stitched over. I was pleased to see the JKR, in fact there were two separate JKRs on there. In keeping with the hushed atmosphere I did a subtle fist pump and whispered excitedly to my husband.

Did you see whether "audience please feel free to add to / fiddle with these exhibits" was advertised up front as part of the deal, or not?
If so, it would mean the NT were justified in leaving the overstitching there (as a visual representation of what's going on in the country at the moment).
If not, it looks more like creating a narrative to justify ideologically-driven inaction in the face of vandalism, after the fact.

No, I don't remember seeing anything like that

Thank you Jean ! ❤️Again, the movement that hates women tries and fails to erase women. They desperately want to be women and try to remove our names. But we will not be removed . JKR ❤️

ALWAYS defend the Duchess of Disbelief, the Empress of Extra, She Who Will Not Be Silenced. Always defend EVERY woman who speaks, knowing full well that to speak is to place herself at risk.