For an assignment in a class called “Colonizing Girlhoods: L.M. Montgomery and Laura Ingalls Wilder,” the professor took us to the Special Collections department of the college library to look at books and artifacts associated with the Little House and Anne of Green Gables series, such as spinoffs, older editions, paper dolls, alphabet books, guidebooks
Figure skater, coach, choreographer, writer, activist, publicist. I loved Doug Mattis dearly for half his life before he died at age 56. He didn’t want me to know about the five years of cancer at the end. I am grateful to his mother, Jill Marberger, for doing the emotional labor of telling me and comforting
The newly abridged, one-night version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway on November 12, 2021. During the coronavirus lockdown, the creators of the show condensed the original two plays, which total 5 hours and 15 minutes, into a single two-act play, totaling 3 hours 30 minutes. I had the privilege of watching
It’s wild when figure skaters good enough for internationals are just as good at other skills. I loved the fresh writing in this memoir by the first U.S. female skater to come out while still competing. If you remember any freedance from U.S. Nationals from the past couple of years, chances are you remember Manta
After J.K. Rowling’s declarations of anti-trans bigotry, many people left Harry Potter fandom in revulsion. Others rejected the author’s bigotry but asserted their right to retain their connections to the source material and, perhaps more importantly, to their own history and relationships within the fandom. As a gift to the HP fandom, artist Fox Estacado
This is a reblog of an eloquent entry by Emma Curzon. I have thought of many of the same quotes over the past several weeks.
This author taught us that hateful speech can be an Unforgivable. The targets of Unforgivables must defend themselves, if possible, but do not owe the caster forgiveness. Forgiveness would not remedy the caster’s harm. The only hope for the caster is to undergo remorse. On the morning of December 19, 2019, J.K. Rowling broke a
Figure skater Adam Rippon, the first U.S. athlete to medal at a Winter Olympics while being out as gay, has released a memoir called Beautiful on the Outside. I’ve been following gay issues in figure skating since the 1990s, and once ran a website called Rainbow Ice (1998-2006) that was the first to be dedicated to
Happy Pride month. Want to see something that feels really queer? Not rainbow-themed platitudes from otherwise anti-gay corporations, but the kind of nervy, wary seductiveness that makes you think of lipstick and riots? Sons of an Illustrious Father’s cover of “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls dares you to look, to desire but not approach —
Note: This was how I introduced a discussion session about gay representation in Potterverse at MISTI-Con. These remarks were meant to provide general background only and to get the conversation started, not to be analytical or comprehensive. — LK Delivered Saturday, May 21, 2017 at MISTI-Con. Twenty years since Philosopher’s Stone was first published. Seven books in
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