For this episode we delved into the issue of Asian representation in the Harry Potter series with two incredible guests: Eugenia Hu and kiran nigam! Join us for an incredible conversation about JKR’s White Woman Bullshit and the myriad ways it shows up in the writing of Cho Chang, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Nagini, and Mohoutokoro School of Magic; as well as discussions about all the missed opportunities to explore the connections between IRL Asian magical practices and magic in the HP world; the insatiable curiosity of the fandom and the ways that JKR has let us down; and of course, the failure of the allegory of wizard supremacy as a stand-in for racism.

Book Recommendations from our guests: The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia, edited by Jaymee Got and Joyce Chng; Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong; Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe; Monstress by Marjorie Liu; The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu; Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao; Octavia Butler’s works, generally; The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin; An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon; The Binti Series by Nnedi Okorafor; Shadowshaper by Daniel José; Older Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie; Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

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