“The loudest feminist voice in the U.K. is currently transphobic,” Nash said of Rowling
Singer/songwriter and actress Kate Nash took aim at a broad range of celebrities and their politics during her Glastonbury set Sunday night, according to British media reports, firing salvos at J.K. Rowling, Rod Stewart, and even 1975 singer Matty Healy‘s mom.
Nash, who recently dropped the anti-transphobia single “GERM,” directed her harshest words at the Harry Potter creator: “The loudest feminist voice in the U.K. is currently transphobic,” she said, “and that is something that I take very fucking personally, as a feminist and a feminist with trans friends in my life, trans people that I love and that are very important to me. “Dismantling systems of oppression lies at the very core of feminism, so transphobia is not fucking feminist. And just because you’re a fucking millionaire and a fucking bully with an army of trolls on the fucking internet, I don’t give a fuck mate.”
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Nash then, somewhat bafflingly, shifted her focus to actress Denise Welch, Matty Healy’s mother. “The music industry doesn’t know what to do with me,” she said. “They tried to get rid of me, but they didn’t. There is a record executive sweating their tits off with Matt Healy’s mum.”
Before she played her song “Dickhead,” she said: “Fuck Rod Stewart. This one goes out to Keir Starmer, J.K. Rowling, Rod Stewart and Nigel fucking Farage.” Stewart recently sparked controversy by voicing support for the right-wing Reform U.K. party and its anti-immigration leader Nigel Farage in a newspaper interview, claiming Britain needed to “give Farage a chance.”
Earlier in the same festival, the hip-hop/punk act Bob Vylan faced criticism from event organizers after he led the crowd in a chant of “death to the I.D.F.,” while Irish act Kneecap’s set — which also included criticism of Stewart — was left off the BBC’s telecast following their vocal anti-Israel advocacy.
