J.K. Rowling Signs Open Letter Railing Against Cancel Culture

Glee star Naya Rivera’s younger sister Nickayla Rivera has shared a very emotional tribute to her the late actress.The star, who had played Santana Lopez on the hit show, was found dead this month after she went missing during a boat trip with her four-year-old son Josey in Lake Piru, California. Heartbroken Nickayla shared a sweet snap of herself kissing her sister on the cheek to Instagram, and beneath it penned an open letter to Naya.

in response to a letter earlier this week from 280-plus staffers of the paper and parent company Dow Jones that criticized the opinion section and called for better labeling of opinion pieces and stronger fact-checking of op-eds.“It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution.

T.I. has written an open letter to Lloyds of London, calling out its role in the transatlantic slave trade.Back in June, the organisation acknowledged its previous ties to the slave trade.

T.I. is placing Lloyd's of London "on notice."

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jameela Jamil has said cancel culture is a “pointless waste of time” and called on powerful celebrities to accept criticism.

Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Elton John are among the stars who have signed an open letter to the government calling for a ban on “conversion therapy”.The practice is used with the aim of “changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, per The Trevor Project’s definition.“Conversion therapists use a variety of shaming, emotionally traumatic or physically painful stimuli to make their victims associate those stimuli with their LGBTQ identities,” the organisation says.

celebrity “casualties” of cancel culture 2020.Twitter users took to the digital platform last month to condemn Harry Potter author Rowling for making anti-trans comments along with denouncing singer-rapper Doja Cat’s racist chatroom past and former “Glee” star Lea Michele’s alleged mistreatment of co-stars.

Neil Young has penned a letter to President Trump and updated the lyrics to one of his famous songs just days after rebuffing the president's use of his music at a July Fourth event on the footsteps of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

public letter decrying the rising “intolerance of opposing views” are distancing themselves from the note while others say that they were asked to sign before the letter was published in Harper’s, but declined.“I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming.  I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company,” tweeted author Jenny Boylan late Tuesday.

Harpers calling for the end of cancel culture.The letter warns against the development of “censoriousness” and “an intolerance of opposing views”.Rowling, who has recently spoken of her views on transgender rights and has sparked a controversial discussion, said on Twitter that she was “proud to sign this letter in defence of a foundational principle of a liberal society: open debate and freedom of thought and speech.”The letter acknowledges “powerful protests for racial and social justice”, but

https://t.co/noh8VRHMyN“But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.”Rowling has come under fire for speaking out on trans issues, including raising concerns that trans rights are eroding women’s rights to single-sex spaces and suggesting young women are being rushed into medical transition.In a 3,600-word essay last month she defended her right to speak about trans issues without fear of abuse, and

Dozens of artists, writers and academics have signed an open letter decrying the weakening of public debate and warning that the free exchange of information and ideas is in jeopardy amid a rise in what they call “illiberalism.”

published in Harpers Bazar reads: ‘The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.’‘It is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.’ The letter also makes clear that its signatories would welcome ‘robust and even caustic counter speech from all quarters.’‘The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to

Naman Ramachandran “Harry Potter” writer J.K Rowling, “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood and “Midnight’s Children” writer Salman Rushdie are amongst 150 public figures to have signed a letter condemning the practice of ‘public shaming,’ or cancel culture as it is known popularly.Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media.

Neil Young has shared an open letter written to Donald Trump, as the US President continues to use the musician’s work without permission.Before Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore last week, three of Young’s songs were heard blasting from the speakers – ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’, ‘Like a Hurricane’, and ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’.After initially taking to Twitter to once again voice his disapproval, Young has now written to the President, saying he won’t take legal action because he doesn’t want to