The Internet Is a Hunting Ground for Trans People

J.K. Rowling, KiwiFarms, and the question of who gets to speak about online harassment.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
5 min readSep 6, 2022

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A backlit, glowing, ominous kiwi.
I asked for “evil kiwi,” and the service delivered. Photo by Tom Bullock on Unsplash

Years from now, we will all, probably, remember where we were when the famously transphobic children’s entertainer J.K. Rowling released a novel 300 pages longer than Infinite Jest about a kids’ entertainer who is harassed to death for…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.