Episode 75: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?

From “Tonks’ Tale,” by Maia Kobabe, in the recent Harry Potter fandom zine Trans-Affirming Magical Care.

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.

Notes, citations, & etc!

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)