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02/14/2019

Of White Blaise and Black Hermione: The Highs and Lows of my Harry Potter Journey

The Critical Companion

How the Harry Potter fandom’s refusal to accept Blaise Zabini as Black left a Black fan feeling like she wasn’t welcome, and how Black Hermione turned it all around.

09/27/2018

Magic or No, All Schools Have Limited Range

The Critical Companion

Patriarchal systems in magical schools (and in the real world) tend to cause problems. Porshèa explores the way these systems manifest in different fictional schools and discusses what should be done to change it.

11/14/2019

Revisiting Harry Potter’s Final Battle: Where Did All the Kreatures Go?

The Critical Companion

Talia looks back at the final battle of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and searches for the magical creatures and the important role they should have played.

06/27/2019

Slavery in Thedas: How BioWare Could Bring Nuance to Dragon Age

The Critical Companion

Crystal talks about her love of Dragon Age, and what it’s writers can do to improve it.

02/27/2020

The Importance of Creating Worlds for Young Black Readers

The Critical Companion

Abisola writes about Children of Blood and Bone and Daughters of Nri, and how they are important for young Black readers.

02/04/2021

Black History Month and the Magic of Cultural Retention

The Critical Companion

DJ reflects on how Black cultural retention is its own form of magic and how it can be used in our every day to shape and mold our futures.

02/25/2020

What ‘Harry Potter’ Doesn’t Teach Us About Allyship & Activism

The Critical Companion

How does Harry Potter’s Order of the Phoenix show the failures of the series to show a truly progressive and anti-supremacist narrative? What can we learn from these inadequacies of the story to be better allies in the real world?