I will make it freely available as soon as I complete it! The plan is to post it as an Instagram carousel and printable PDF!

Tags for engagement: #harrypotter #harrypotterfandom #hp #drarry #wolfstar #jkrowling #queerstudies #fanstudies #womensandgenderstudies

Would anyone be interested in a project like this? The zine should be publicly available by the end of April. It will be hand designed on Canva, and physically printed and shared around my campus and a PDF will be online for free. This isn't made for profit, it is made as a senior student project.

Through a short visually popping zine, I can provide people a snapshot of how the Harry Potter fandom feels about diverse fanworks that reclaim and reinterpret the original narratives, such as trans-inclusive Hogwarts, trans Harry Potter or Draco headcanons/retellings, Black Hermione fanworks, etc

Fandom communities are so important for identity formation, mental health,and creativity. Especially online fandom is important as a queer heterotopia when it can be difficult to be yourself in mainstream physical spaces.

My goal is to examine how fans "queer" harmful canon text, find queer joy in diverse fanworks, and how we can critically & creatively engage with text that is harmful yet also provides a space that helps people be themselves.

Would anyone be willing to share quotes/text/fanart/fanfic, or visual fanworks of any kind so I may compile everything into an 6-8 page zine?

Is there any interest from people to take a survey regarding their Harry Potter fandom experiences, how they feel about Rowling and if they themselves have "queered" the text to reclaim the wizarding world to be more inclusive, as resistance against the author