Girls’ interests are too often trivialised or dismissed … but passionate, driven girls are making an impact – from Greta Thunberg to 14-year-old skateboarding gold medallist Arisa Trew.
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So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?
Despite calls to boycott the game by trans activists, the game has proved wildly popular – particularly among Black gamers.
We may think of Harry Potter as escapist delight, but J.K. Rowling’s books also contain an extended theme that has more in common with King Lear than most English professors might care to admit.
As Harry Potter turns 20, a scholar says protesters who try to censor books do not trust young readers to discern the difference between fantasy and reality. But why?
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