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Romance Con, put on by Mischief Managed, is under fire for promoting an author whose book is essentially a Harry Potter advertisement. Instead of paying attention to trans voices in particular about how they felt about the situation, they've doubled down. So the trans voices are going to speak here instead.

Georgina
https://georginakiersten.com/
  / ingloriousgigi  
https://www.threads.com/ingloriousgigi

Sirius
https://www.lmhpub.com/
https://www.threads.com/@thelaughingm...
  / thelaughingmanhousepub  

Arkady
https://biblioddities.com/
https://www.threads.com/@bibliodditie...

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00:01 Romance Con is a cluster
00:29 Julie Soto was a main attraction
01:05 Soto was uninvited but there was still a lot of Harry Potter-themed events
01:51 We want to do the opposite of Romance Con and talk to voices of the community
02:08 Guest introductions
04:03 Romance Con is clearly not listening to trans people
05:05 Leaving notes to not support You Know Who. There’s a way to do it. Julie Soto did it the wrong way
05:40 The marketing makes it a requirement to watch Harry Potter to understand what’s going on
06:08 JK Rowling being silent tells us a lot
07:33 She has been notorious in going after fan fiction authors before
08:45 The marketing is more around it being a Harry Potter fanfic than the actual plot of Soto’s book
10:18 Too much context from Harry Potter still going on
11:30 The view from a non-romance writer
12:36 Why are you using another author’s IP to market a book? Very peculiar
13:37 WHY ARE THERE HARRY POTTER PANELS AT A ROMANCE CONVENTION?!
13:34 Itchi.io has taken down a lot of queer authors’ works
15:08 Itch.io taking down even adult tagged content without warning and froze payments
16:27 Romance Con “outsourced” things to a new company… that’s owned by the same group of people
17:00 The timing of every hit that trans people have taken recently is brutal
18:02 July is Disability Awareness Month and so many trans authors are disabled
19:29 JKR has become a comic book villain
20:15 The JK Rowlings biopic was heavily exaggerated and falsified
21:40 She got a grant to write Harry Potter. She also worked for a publisher and already had contacts
22:37 We knew Julie Soto was booked for Romance Con a year ago. Why is it such a concern just now?
24:09 This is not against the person. It’s against the promotion of Harry Potter
25:33 Quote from Soto
26:30 Willing to have grace if someone is willing to pivot and find a better way of being
27:57 Why is Knightly not getting as much hate as Soto?
29:25 Julie Soto’s book has more issues than just the Harry Potter stuff, which people actually seemed more upset about
30:40 Beef with trad romance authors because they decry censorship so fast
31:02 “Cis women’s feelings matter more than trans lives”
31:47 Romance Con had an opportunity to platform trans authors instead of doubling down
33:40 AFAB trans being treated as “women-light” to affirm decisions
36:50 It’s like Soto got a list of random woke words and stuck them in a statement
38:30 There are thousands of trans people d*ing because of what JK Rowling has done
40:10 This is a message of cowardice instead of doing the right thing
40:43 Not all money is good money
43:20 Will disproportionately be the small, queer vendors who are losing the most money from these con collapses
46:29 The support in the romance community is abysmal but the support in the LGBTQ+ community is amazing
48:00 An uphill battle
48:58 Neil Gaiman dropped immediately
50:45 Don’t use feminism as a shield
53:40 Indie presses' exclusionary submission guidelines
56:19 It’s really difficult to barter safety with cis women to be accepted sometimes
57:45 Either be an ally or don’t
58:54 The people not being affected don’t see the affected as people
01:00:20 Romance Con is ignoring the opinions of the trans community
01:01:05 Only willing to listen who’re going to conveniently align with you at the moment
01:01:58 Thank you to our guests

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