Posts Tagged harry potter

By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Men don’t have to hate women to benefit from sexism.

Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg apologizes a little.

White is the new white.

Ladies, Cornell Fetch is just trying to help.

Negotiating multiple identities on Buffy.

Mikki Kendall and Flavia Dzodan talked with The Hairpin about #solidarityisforwhitewomen.

Sex, power, and tips.

An open letter to Kal Penn on Stop and Frisk.

The Colorlines community remembers learning about Harriet Tubman.

Cutting the Gordian Knot of sex work.

Twenties is apparently pretty great.

From 1908 to 2013: stories of unlikely desi activists in the U.S.

California now explicitly guarantees trans* students equal access to education (though Title IX already ...

Men don’t have to hate women to benefit from sexism.

Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg apologizes a little.

White is the new white.

Ladies, Cornell Fetch is just trying to help.

Negotiating ...

LOL GOP
By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A tragic account of second-wave feminist infighting.

“The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence.”

Four burning questions for Dean Spade.

Kendra James takes on Suzy Lee Weiss, Abigail Fischer, et al. at Racialicious.

Appalachian State University wants to protect its brand; student- and professor-activists want to end campus rape.

Lena Dunham’s “First Time” ad for Obama is up for a Webby.

Frat teaches members how to talk to Jewish women.

Out Magazine forgot about the power of POC and trans* people.

UNC is more concerned about false rape accusations than rape itself.

Happy Birthday, Frances Perkins!

DC comics to

A tragic account of second-wave feminist infighting.

“The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence.”

Four burning questions for Dean Spade.

Kendra James takes ...
By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

Harry Potter would support immigration reform

You all know that I’m a big Harry Potter nerd – and I know that there are a lot of Feministing readers who secretly still hope that an owl bearing an acceptance letter to Hogwarts will arrive at their breakfast table every July. So, it’s no surprise that I love this video by Julian, a young undocumented American and Harry Potter fan. Julian wants to go to LeakyCon, an annual conference for Harry Potter fans, but he can’t go this year because he doesn’t have the required documentation to get a flight or a train to Chicago.

He wisely makes the analogy between racial discrimination in our world and anti-Muggleborn discrimination in the Magical world, and concludes that Harry Potter, who ...

You all know that I’m a big Harry Potter nerd – and I know that there are a lot of Feministing readers who secretly still hope that an owl bearing an acceptance letter to Hogwarts will arrive ...
By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

Accio Kleenex: in which prophecies are fulfilled, eras end, and all the nerds lose their shit

It All Ends Here. That is the completely overblown tagline for the last Harry Potter movie which, in case you did not know because you have been living for the last decade under a rock 40 miles beneath the sea in a cone of silence, comes out TODAY.

As regular readers and Twitter followers know, I am a giant Harry Potter nerd. Seriously, with all the time and energy I’ve spent reading and thinking about Harry Potter over the last decade, I could have learned at least three foreign languages. I love these books. I grew up with them – the first one came out when I was 11, and the last when I was 19 – so some ...

It All Ends Here. That is the completely overblown tagline for the last Harry Potter movie which, in case you did not know because you have been living for the last decade under a rock 40 miles ...
By Lori Adelman • 12 years ago

The Wednesday Weigh-In: Harry Potter edition

LIKE OMG YOU GUYS the last Harry Potter film is about to drop. The cultural reach of this dynasty is hard to overstate. Like everywhere else in the world, Harry Potter has had quite an effect on the Feministing crew.

Zach Wahls grew up reading the series, and so did our very own Chloe, who has written about her unabashed love for Ginny Weasley.

The final film has been (rightly) branded as marking the “end of an era”. Even the movie poster above cleverly uses the phrase “It all ends here.” Which got me thinking about the end of this cultural movement. A lot of people seem to be concerned with what will come next, and have urged ...

LIKE OMG YOU GUYS the last Harry Potter film is about to drop. The cultural reach of this dynasty is hard to overstate. Like everywhere else in the world, Harry Potter has had quite an ...