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Owl Post Edition: An Interview with Imara Jones!

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

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Trans People and Transphobia in the Harry Potter Series

I think I see an analog sort of in the Harry Potter series around this idea of transformation and what it's transformed or what needs transformation, right? Because you think about Harry, Harry at the beginning of this series, he's a wizard his whole life. But he doesn't have language for that. The family around him doesn't recognize that in him. It stifles that story about him. And he knows this about himself but doesn't have the language yet. It's only when others arrive and give him language and give him support that he is able to become who he already was in a paradoxical way,. So actually what needs to change around him is the support, is the world

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