What do a Scottish children’s author and a mid-century Brazilian political theorist have in common? Answer: a recognition that movements founded on liberation can become instruments of the very institutional power they once opposed . . . though neither would likely appreciate the comparison.
J. K. Rowling and Paulo Freire make unlikely intellectual bedfellows. But Rowling’s latest essay on transgender activism offers an occasion to revisit a warning embedded in Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
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