Harry Potter and the Anxious Millennials

We're back again learning about the Durselys and this time they're on a diet! Feast (but not too much) on some grapefruit as we discuss diet culture, fatphobia, and scenes that we wish hadn't been cut from the movie. This week we are recommending everyone check out Alisa Vitti, author of Woman Code and In The Flo. Arri started reading In The Flo recently and had her mind blown in the first chapter...

For the fourth book in a row, we are given explanation as to who Harry is, what his closest relationships are, and just how shrill Hermione's voice truly is. And we hope that Dumbledore had a lovely time on his trip to Fire Island - see you next summer, girlie! America's child poverty rate was 16% of kids nationwide as of 2020 data. While the child tax credit was a help during 2021, Congress has a...

Let's take a dive into the fourth book in the series, shall we? This week, we talk about Chapter 1, The Riddle House. We discuss its uniqueness among all the chapters in the series, finally get the tea on Miss Bertha Jorkins, and how exactly to milk a snake. This week, we've made a donation to Indigenous Rising, An Indigenous Environmental Network Project. The mission of Indigenous Rising is to bu...

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Welcome back! This week, we're flying straight to The Burrow, the home of the Weasley family. The trio discusses such topics as why the Weasley's are truly so poor, a primer conversation on gender roles in the Harry Potter series, and reference Newt Scamander's seminal work Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to figure out if a gnome is a beast or a being. Voter suppression of voters of color...

This week we finish the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone! We gab about how much Dumbledore really knew, great villain monologues, and the idea of a narcoleptic Voldemort! He just needs a nap. In two weeks, we'll be going over the film adaptation of this book, and then two weeks after that we are going to start the Chamber of Secrets! This week, Allie highlights "...