The Polari Prize’s bizarre decision to longlist an extreme transphobe has already caused HALF of the 24 authors on the two longlists to withdraw, along with two of its judges. Probably more to come. What a fiasco
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I really wanted this piece to focus on the queer authors who are giving up a rare opportunity for positive mainstream publicity by withdrawing from the Polari prizes, rather than focusing on John Boyne and the specifics of his transphobia.
Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF.
11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social.
Read more here:
Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned
A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...
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Sure there’s a whole other story there after his death
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Ice Cube isn't playing Mr Polly in a crappy Amazon movie though
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Yes, Things to Come was the first cinematic depiction of a post-apocalyptic world. And The Sleeper Awakes was the first book of real quality about a dystopian dictatorship. And he invented the atomic bomb. There's probably more.
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Shakespeare was hugely popular and Mozart was famous from childhood. Not sure these are the best examples but the point is true
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Even though I've written about him in two books, it's still mindboggling that he invented (a) time travel, (b) invisible people and (c) bad Martians. Before WOTW fictional Martians were benign
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The endurance of The War of the Worlds is interesting compared to most of Wells's contemporaries and indeed most of his other books
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Marvel and DC have been producing comic books on a weekly basis for decades, uninterrupted, and Marvel eventually inspired the most successful movie franchise of all time. It's not comparable
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I don't think you can find equivalently longrunning storytelling anywhere else. The movies have decades of story ideas to play with, which took from every other genre because they had to
