Episode 75: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
JK Rowling has become an anti-trans activist on social media. This news has sent Harry Potter fandom -- always full of queers and trans people -- into mourning. We talk to author/publisher (and longtime Slytherin) Cecilia Tan about how to ignore Rowling and take back Harry Potter.
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Find out more about Cecilia Tan, founder of Circlet Press
The Binge-Watchers Guide to the Harry Potter Films — An Unofficial Companion, by Cecilia Tan
Coming Out as a Slytherin, by Cecilia Tan
HP Fans for Trans Rights pins and graphics
Fifty Shades of Gray started out as Twilight fanfic (Business Insider)
Harry Potter fanfic on Archive of Our Own
JK Rowling’s long history of discussing — and not depicting — Dumbledore’s sexuality (Entertainment Weekly)
Everyone who has spoken out against JK Rowling’s transphobia (Them)
A guide to fandom’s complicated relationship with Orson Scott Card’s homophobia, by Aja Romano (The Daily Dot)
What James Bond’s racism teaches us about foreign policy (Al Jazeera)