Witch, Please: Queer Theory

<p>We have one more week off between seasons of <em>Harry Potter and the Sacred Text</em>! While we're off, we thought we'd share a recent episode from our sister show, the brilliant feminist Harry Potter podcast <em>Witch, Please. </em></p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>We have an episode for you that, in our professional opinion, is <em>very gay</em>. And by gay we mean inviting expansively, radically, resistantly queer readings of a text that is trying very <em>very</em> hard to perform heterosexuality and binary gender! We breeze by the obvious details—like Lockhart's character flaws as coded within his failure to correctly perform masculinity or Harry &amp; Draco's flagrant <em>obsession </em>with each other—and into some of this text's more subversive queer potentials.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode acknowledges the existence of sex, so use discretion if in the company of young ears! This episode also discusses the continued abuse of Harry by the Dursleys, so take care of yourselves.</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>