you get hounded , what happens if you get hounded, particularly if you're not somebody who is uncancellablel we say? and although performance poetry is one of the world's most lucrative art forms , world's most lucrative art forms, i was not exactly in a position to survive it. >> what sort of harassment were you experiencing? >> so it it would take far too long to go into my own experiences, to be honest with you. but what the book is trying to do and why i was approached to do and why i was approached to write it, was off the back of the essay that i wrote about my own experiences. so what i identified in that essay and what the publisher polity was interested in doing, was looking at the different types of harms faced by women who speak out in the gender wars. so this isn't about the harms of the ideology itself. those harms have been talked about and written about at length by so , so many people. at length by so, so many people. and actually that's one of the first harms. so i split the book into psychological harms, social harms, economic harms and democratic harms. one of the first p

rowling is among the uncancellable, far too rich and too powerful, but that doesn't have to say that hasn't been incredibly courageous she didn't have to say that. but it would have been easier, she receives daily threats of murder, threats of violent, the people seeing themselves on the right side of history can be the most ferocious, downright cruel individuals in the world and we know that from history, but some of the most radical people, the people most cruel and people in the inacquisition strapping people to the rack thought they were doing so, thought they were on the side of the angels and often the two things collude so i have nothing, but admiration for j.k. rowling for sticking her neck out and made it easier for other people who don't have their resources to do the same. for instance, when the scottish government implemented new hate speech law, this is a law that could have criminalized people. >> a law, an actual law. >> a law that came april the 1st, april fool's day and sound like a joke, but it wasn't. you could be criminalized forgo is you said in the privacy of yo

you get hounded , what happens if you get hounded, particularly if you're not somebody who is uncancellablewe say? and although performance poetry is one of the world's most lucrative art forms , world's most lucrative art forms, i was not exactly in a position to survive it. >> what sort of harassment were you experiencing? >> so