Louise O'Neill on JK Rowling: 'Is this how we are going to define women from now on?'

This has not been a good week for Harry Potter fans.

In the middle of a global pandemic and a long over-due reckoning with the systemic racism that underpins our societal structures, JK Rowling, the author of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series, decided to share an article on Twitter titled, ‘Creating a more equal post-COVID19 world for people who menstruate’.

“People who menstruate,” she tweeted.