Gavin

I am DONE with this franchise.

Did you know that after accidentally scuffing a copy of the Quran last month, an autistic fourteen-year-old boy from Wakefield, England, was suspended from school, charged with a ‘hate incident’, and plagued by death threats before he and his family were eventually forced to leave their home after warnings of arson?

Would you like to know West Yorkshire Police’s response to these threats?

Nothing.

Whether or not corporations, media players, and pop singers like Lizzo are glamorising obesity is up to you. What’s irrefutable is that the line between eradicating the demonization of larger body types, and flat out telling children that their obesity is something to cling onto, cherish, and never strive to do anything about, has been blurred.

Make no mistake, the very children Puffin Books are attempting to bubble wrap are being served the grossest disservice one can impose upon a child: a clamping down on their imagination.

Well, it’s taken me over a month to speak out about this, but my childhood hero, adulthood hero, and general number one inspiration for my life passed away in January.