Harry Potter After 2020

"The fatphobia felt different. It felt personal, and easily – instantly  identified and rejected by the majority. To me, the fandom collective response to it serves as a pre-existing, very good and healthy template for how to deal with other offensive areas in the story if you're still going to extract the things that are valuable." - Lorrie Kim, Ep. 1.2 For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

"I feel pretty strongly that -- at least for me and probably for other people, too -- the solution is not simply to cut loose, abandon, and leave, because there's me in there. All the associations with this series, some of it I want to go retrieve. That's mine. I'm going to go in and get it, and I'm going to see which parts of it are mine and which parts I'm going to just rinse off. Also, there's information there for me. Remembering what things were like, noticing what has changed, becoming

"The world is so different now than it was when I first read these books. 2020 is such a marker. There's a before 2020 and then there's after 2020 in our world, right? I'm curious to see: will I be able to enjoy this? Will I be able to engage with this again in a way that feels okay to me?" - JC, Ep. 1.0 For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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