Book 4, Ep. 5 | Trans Studies with Taylor Allgeier-Follett
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This is a must-listen, Witches!
Guest Taylor Allgeier-Follet joins Hannah and Marcelle for a conversation on Trans Studies and The Goblet of Fire. Taylor (they/them) is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin who brings their expertise as both an academic and a person who has read the Harry Potter series over forty times. In this episode, Taylor, Hannah and Marcelle dive into transcoding and transphobia as it relates to the characterization of Rita Skeeter. If you're interested in the evolution of Trans Studies and Trans Theory, then you'll love this episode that stems from the work of Susan Stryker, Grace Lavery, Patricia Elliot and Lawrence Lyons — just to name a few.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I'm Hannah McGregor, and this will come as a shock to everyone, |
| 0:21.7 | including us. |
| 0:22.7 | But we have another guest today. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh my god, another guest today. |
| 0:26.8 | We are so lucky. |
| 0:29.2 | Today's guest is Taylor Alghair Follett, pronouns they them. |
| 0:34.4 | Taylor is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin, where their thesis is on women and |
| 0:39.4 | their relationship to family and contemporary Irish novels. |
| 0:43.4 | They also work with queer and trans representation, theory and popular culture, and taught a class |
| 0:49.7 | on Harry Potter as a student at UC Berkeley, which is amazing. |
| 0:58.1 | Taylor lives in Dublin with their cat, dog partner, and a ridiculous number of books. |
| 1:05.0 | These are all really just speak to your expertise for the topic of today's episode. |
| 1:12.6 | But why don't we start off by finding out a bit more about you in the sorting chat. |
| 1:18.4 | So, Taylor, you've taught a class about Harry Potter, which does suggest that you know |
| 1:24.6 | Harry Potter fairly well. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah, it was actually kind of the first book I remember getting, which does date me in |
| 1:33.2 | terms of how young I am. |
| 1:36.1 | And yeah, I have actually read every book in the Harry Potter series 42 times. |
| 1:40.4 | Have you counted? |
| 1:41.4 | Do you keep track? |
| 1:42.4 | I have. |
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