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Material Girls

Book 1, Ep. 2 | Orientalism

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Vanessa Zoltan, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Aubrey Gordon, Hannah Mcgregor, Pop Culture, Cultural Cricism, Society & Culture, Feminism, Witch Please, Marcelle Kosman, Tv & Film, Fantasy, Not Sorry

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we unravel the many layers of Orientalist tropes that permeate the Harry Potter world. How do some not-so-subtle visual and narrative cues--turbans, hooked noses, and mysterious powers from the "East" tell readers who to fear, dislike, and distrust in these books? How can we heighten our awareness of tropes like these and call out these negative portrayals when we see them?


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to which please a rebooted podcast about the Harry Potter world.

0:09.0

I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Kossman and I don't know about you, but now that we're through that pilot episode I feel like I can finally relax.

0:18.0

I really love this energy for us. You can tell we're relaxing because it's scripted. So let's just unwind, undo our

0:26.7

metaphorical type pants, and coast on over to the sorting chat.

0:32.1

Now this is really great because we don't have anything scripted for the sorting chat so I feel

0:36.4

Awesome about my ability to come up with something that isn't related to my body to talk about

0:44.0

You want to talk about your body? No, I don't want to tell anybody about the body horror

0:46.5

that I've been experiencing for the last four days.

0:49.0

That's 100% you're right.

0:54.3

Your body is allowed to be your secret precious pearl.

0:57.3

My body, my choice.

0:58.8

So, yep, absolutely.

1:00.9

That applies in all circumstances, except for wearing a mask. My God people wear masks.

1:07.8

There actually several contexts in which choices about bodies must be tempered by the complexities of the government good.

1:16.0

I think we can all agree that government mandated, nope.

1:22.0

The best part about this is that the strong

1:26.4

inclination to make our conversations topical must be mitigated by the fact that we're recording two months in advance.

1:35.0

At least.

1:37.0

So I know that the whole thing about the sorting chess segment is that we can't really talk about like topical things because we are recording this episode.

1:52.3

Mm. a few months, a month.

1:55.9

I don't know how time works before it's,

1:57.9

I mean at least at least a month.

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