JAMES LILEKS: Panic! at the yarn store:

A Twin Cities yarn store is the latest small business to pull Harry Potter products from its shelves in protest of J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views.

The team at Needle & Skein in St. Louis Park announced the decision in a Nov. 7 apology letter regarding the recent sale of Harry Potter-themed kits at the shop.

Reddit applauds! Reddit is happy. The Fiber Art Community has been on this for a long time. I remember reading how social-justice issues split the Yarn-Anemican Community a while back – and by “split” I mean the people who did not realize that knitting is inherently political, and decline to incorporate the proper politics into their worldview, where excoriated and ostrasized. Hence the rise of things like the Social Justice Sewing Academy.

Flashback: The Latest Dispatches from the World of Jacobin Knitting.