Appendix: The Author
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We said we would and so we did! Here is our episode on l'auteur! In this episode, Marcelle leads us through a brief Revisions segment because there is just too much to get into! We talk ideology, discourse, structuralism, celebrity and capitalism before heading into a chat about two dead French guys (Barthes and Foucault) and 'the death of the author." Then in Owls we put our theory to work as we think through J.K. Rowling's presence in the circulation of the Harry Potter series and the way new technologies of publishing have changed the scope of her "author function."
If thinking about "the author" makes you crave a great way to say fuck transphobia and transphobes, please donate to our fundraiser for Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre — an organization that's been directly affected by JKR's transphobia. You can find the link here and on our website ohwitchplease.ca. We're halfway to our goal of $5000 by April 30th. We can do it with your help!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, we're quickly popping in to let you know about a fundraiser we're running, |
| 0:05.0 | inspired by this episode. A few weeks ago, we had a thoughtful listener write in to ask |
| 0:11.0 | that we dedicate our author episode to an organization recently affected by JKR's transphobia. |
| 0:18.2 | When the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center hired a trans CEO, JKR's foundation pulled their funding |
| 0:25.2 | from the center and JKR opened up her own single-sex rape crisis service. It's a private |
| 0:31.9 | business that claims to be, quote, a sexual violence support service for women run by women, |
| 0:38.4 | end quote. In contrast, the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center supports survivors of all genders aged |
| 0:45.8 | 12 plus who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. The Edinburgh Rape Crisis |
| 0:51.7 | Center faces regular transphobic attacks from the press and public and a lack of funding such |
| 0:58.2 | that they are unable to meet the huge demand for support in the city. If you want a great way to |
| 1:04.3 | say fuck you to JKR's transphobia, please support our fundraiser and help the Edinburgh Rape Crisis |
| 1:11.2 | Center in their life-saving work. You can find a link to our fundraiser in the show notes on |
| 1:18.0 | Instagram and on our website. We originally set a goal of $1,000 but you absolute rock stars |
| 1:26.7 | blew that out of the water before we recorded this episode. So we've set a new goal of $5,000 |
| 1:34.3 | and we're confident that you're going to blow that one out of the water as well. |
| 1:38.8 | So keep that in mind as you listen to our new episode and get progressively more angry. |
| 1:49.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a Fortnightly podcast about a Harry Potter world. I'm Hannah McGregor |
| 2:02.1 | and I'm Marcel Cosman. And Hannah, I would like you to tell me what it is like living in the world |
| 2:11.5 | as a noteur in the sorting chat. Okay, yeah, I am an author. |
| 2:16.8 | C'est vraiment vrai. C'est vraiment vrai. I am an author and that is very funny because when I think |
| 2:22.7 | about the author, I do not think about me. In fact, I do not think about any of the people I know |
| 2:30.0 | who are writers because doesn't writer and author feel like it means something really different. |
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