Overview

• In a new Instagram clip, Monsoon feigned confusion over Rowling’s gender by misgendering her and jokingly calling her “Jake Hay Rowling.”
• Monsoon accused Rowling of adopting initials as a deliberate persona shift to make readers assume she was male.
• Ziwe’s full interview with Monsoon will premiere on YouTube at 5 p.m. PST this evening.
• HBO chief Casey Bloys has emphasized that the network’s 25-year partnership with Rowling won’t influence its upcoming Harry Potter adaptation.
• Monsoon, a two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner identifying as trans-femme nonbinary, begins her eight-week run in Oh, Mary! on Broadway on August 4.