Ep. 187 - Representation Shortcomings in Harry Potter (Part 1) w/ Delia Gallegos & Michael Harle

Potterless

Mike Schubert

Comedy, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Delia Gallegos (@deliaistyping) & Michael Harle (@Lupinpatronus) explain some of the areas in which the Harry Potter series fell short in terms of representation through the use of stereotypes and imperfect metaphors. Topics include: secret conventions, Dean’s absentee father, redlining, Cho’s mistreatment, Kinsley’s last name, Angelina Johnson, Afrofuturism, gaslighting, SPEW, white knights, Jar Jar Binks, minstrel shows, and more!

Rachel Rostad's To J. K. Rowling From Cho Chang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6xU3mYY3Cw
PBS' It's Lit - https://www.pbs.org/show/its-lit/
Hogwarts BSU - https://archives.blacknerdscreate.com/hogwartsbsu/

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0:30.0	Hey, it's me, editing Mike. With a big announcement, I'm not even going to do a cute little
0:33.4	intro thing. I'm just going to get right into the introduction to this podcast. The announcement is that
0:38.2	August 2021 is the last month of regularly weekly uploaded, potterless episodes. It does not
0:44.7	mean potterless is dying. It just means we are not posting new weekly episodes. And what will be
0:50.4	taking the place of weekly posting is that I am launching a new Percy Jackson show that will
0:55.2	start in September. It will be a similar structure to potterless where I am making my way through
1:00.0	the series. For the very first time, I knew legitimately nothing about Percy Jackson before
1:04.8	starting on this podcasting endeavor. Absolutely nothing. I didn't even know if Percy Jackson was
1:08.7	the main character, or if it was maybe like Zelda, where the franchise was named after not the
1:13.1	main hero. But that will be on a separate feed. The potterless feed will stay as it is every time I
1:19.2	do a live show or a convention appearance or anything where I get audio that I can put onto the
1:24.0	feed. I will do so, but I just can't promise any sort of regularity to these uploads, so it will
1:29.6	be sporadic. But the feed is not completely dying and there will be something weekly in the podcasting
1:35.2	world where I cover it children series. It's just not Harry Potter anymore because I've pretty much
1:39.2	done everything I want to cover. I will now be moving on to Percy Jackson. I'll be starting with
1:43.3	the main five books and hopefully moving on to doing the spin-off books and the movie and the musical
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