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Episode 65: Transfigurations

Be The Serpent

English - July 15, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes - 42.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
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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!!