On today's episode we're talking about Harry Potter, the unbearable TERFness of JK Rowling, and the power of fanfic to reclaim and transform problematic canons: We're doing a deep-dive on the fanfic "Transfigurations" by Resonant!
What We’re Into Lately
Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson
The Letdown TV series
Pink Slip by Katrina Jackson
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
What married people do by Shamelesscooper, a Scum Villain/Untamed crossover fanfic
The Black Calhouns by Gail Lumet Buckley
The 1619 Project
TorCon 2020 panel: A Whole Universe in Pages — Worldbuilding for SFF
The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
Watchmen miniseries on HBO
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
"White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism" essay by Tochi Onyebuchi
"I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest" essay by Tochi Onyebuchi
Queer Eye
Good Omens
Other Things We Mentioned
Juneteenth
Black Lives Matter
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Stabby Queer Ladies Anthology, Silk & Steel
Kerin Cunningham’s Kickstarter
My Chemical Romance
The Unbearable TERFness of J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Witchmark by C. L. Polk
Lumos by birdsofshore
The Untamed
Star Trek
In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
Eclipse by Mijan
A Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Alexander the Great’s sex life
tissue of silver by fearlessdiva
Maya’s Harry Potter fics
For Next Time
Mating the Huntress by Talia Hibbert
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our amazing team of scribes, as always!!
Episode 61: A Time and a Place
Episode 60: Extravaganza
Episode 59: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
Episode 58: College Experience 101
Episode 57: We All Fall Down
Episode 56: The Title of the Episode
Episode 55: There's a Form for That
Episode 54: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Episode 53: The Untamed (featuring guest star Ruoxi Chen!)
Bonus Episode: Strange Horizons Special!!
Episode 52: Let Us Tell You Our Thoughts on Yaoi...
Episode 51: How to Romance Your Dragon
Episode 50: Extravaganza (Agony Aunt Special)
Episode 49: And I Shall Sit Here Consumed With Lust for the Rest of the Evening
Episode 48: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (And Stab Things)
Episode 47: Clothes Maketh Man
Episode 46: Welcome to Goth Camp
Episode 45: Not Your Usual Family Reunion
Episode 44: Sympathy for the Devil (Live From WorldCon)
Episode 43: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
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The Turn of the Screw
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll