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Hey witches! We’re popping into your feed on a Friday to drop the newest episode of Hannah’s new podcast, Secret Feminist Agenda ! We thought this conversation about witchcraft and embracing your inner Hagrid would be  particularly up your alley. Enjoy! This week I’m joined by authors/witches extraordinaire Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman to talk about their forthcoming book  Basic Witche...

By popular demand, we sat down and watched A Very Potter Musical  and boy did we  have some thoughts . Some… thoughts. ANYWAY, if you still like us after this episode and you’d like to chip in to send us to Orlando, you can do that here . If you like the sound of boring self care, check out Hannah Daisy and maybe buy some of her stuff. Don’t forget to listen all the way to the end for ou...

Queue neatly and check your ticket, because we’re heading back to England for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour with special on-location guest Rachelle Saunders (of Episode Sigma  fame). Check out the photos Hannah took on the tour! Don’t forget to listen all the way to the end for our latest #trywitches tournament challenge and the answer to this episode’s #witchpleasetellme question! h...

Howdy partners! Grab yer ten galleon hats and join us as we impose our critical feminism on Calgary, Alberta during the Stamp—er………. that is the Comics and Entertainment Expo that took place this past April. Marcelle hosted a one-witch panel wherein she discussed the rise of fascism in the Harry Potter series. You’ll notice references to slides during the talk; you can view or download them f...

Well hello again, witches! Thanks for tuning in for this week’s  mega super long  but  mega super lovely episode featuring the Foggo Family. An under-slept Marcelle joins the Foggos as they discuss what the Harry Potter series and the podcast  Witch, Please mean to them as a family and as fans. ***** OH AND MEGA SUPER APOLOGIES FOR THE AUDIO SHENANIGANS IN THIS E...

Welcome back, witches! We sure have missed you, and we’re excited to get started on Season 2 (new numbering system TBA). The focus of this season will be the Harry Potter fandom, and Hannah kicked things off by attending  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  in London with HP megafan, author, and journalist Anna James . Join us for a conversation about the liveness of theatre, three-p...

Image from page 375 of “The Haverfordian, Vols. 26-27, 1904-05” (1905) Hey witches! We're dropping back into your feed momentarily to let you know about three upcoming events! On Sunday, April 23, at 1pm   UPDATE: 3:30PM , Hannah and previous guest Rachelle Saunders will be hosting a meet-up at the Parcel Yard in King's Cross. Come hang out! On Sunday, April 30, at 1:30pm, Marcelle (and the robot...

Image courtesy of Huffington Post Hold onto your hard drives, witches, because we have an announcement for you! We've been thinking over the past months about ways to make  Witch, Please sustainable. After two years of fortnightly episodes, we're worried about fizzling out over the next year. We don't want  to fizzle out, dear witches, because hanging out with you is too much fun. And so we have a...

HAPPY 2017, WITCHES! We don’t believe in resolutions because they are a neoliberal conceit intended to keep you politically docile by convincing you that your very being is a perfectable project. But we do  believe in trying to educate yourself every damn day, and in that spirit, this minisode is accompanied by some recommended readings. Enjoy! Content Warning for this episode: disc...

Image source: Miss Nobody on tumblr Greetings from the Roaring Twenties, witches! In this excitingly lengthy new beast of an episode, Marcelle and Hannah are joined by your favourite Guy with a Film Degree: Neale Barnholden! Your hilarious hosts FINALLY talk about that new venture into the Wizarding World by money machines JK Rowling and Warner Brothers:  Fantastic Beasts and W...

Image credit: Ashley Hostetter “The Charming Classroom” Welcome back, witches! We are gearing up to tackle Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ! In this  fantastic minisode, Marcelle sits down with Harry Potter marketing wiz and wandmaker-in-training Rachelle Saunders (of Science for the People  fame) to talk about branding and Harry Potter. So grab your House Sca...

Photo credit: Max Lalanne / The Tufts Daily Howdy, witches! This extended universe not-so-mini minisode comes to you hot off the mics in America! Hannah and Marcelle (and Trevor!) (and the hippogriff baby, too!!) had the pleasure of visiting Tufts University to deliver a workshop on podcasting and to speak on a panel with Tufts Experimental College Professor Lydia XZ Brown about disability, r...

Image source: Fantastic Beasts “Final Trailer” Welcome to the future, witches! In this episode, Marcelle and Neale tackle the trailers for the first (of FIVE?!?!) movie in the  Fabulous Beasts and Their Locations Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film franchise. We honestly cannot believe we are going to do this  five more times , but for sure by the second or third movie rele...

Image from page 988 of “Popular electricity magazine in plain English” (1912) (Internet Archive Book Image) This arbitrarily-categorized Extended Universe Episode saw one of your brave hosts venture out of her cozy living room and into stormy Vancouver in search of a real live theatrical BUT TOTALLY COMMUNITY-DRIVEN AND FREE SO IN NO WAY LEGALLY LIABLE reading of  Harry Potter and the Cu...

Image: filmratings.com Gather ’round, witches! We’re back with another minisode! This week, Marcelle asks resident Guy With A Film Degree Neale Barnholden all about trailers and somewhat ironically they talk for an hour! PSA: we had a LOT of unexpected technical difficulties before, during, and after recording, so please think of this episode as a rather rough cut. http://ohwitchplease.ca/wp-conte...

Pull out your rulers, witches, and start measuring your margins, because this episode we’re getting into the nitty and the gritty of book design. Hannah is joined by book designer (and brand new colleague at her brand new job!)  Mauve Pagé  in a discussion of three different editions of  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone . We talk about kerning! We talk about x-heig...

Welcome back, witches! Today’s episode wraps up our discussion of the second half of  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and after this we’ll never speak of it again—at least, not until the next edition of play script gets published with all that sweet, sweet paratext you know we crave…….. Seriously, though, we’re stoked for the re-issuing of the post-production script with, like, ph...

Image: Tasha Chawner, flickr Grab your contraband Time Turners, witches, because we’re zipping back in time to episode 15A: the first half of our discussion of the play script for  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ! Speaking of time, in this episode Hannah and Marcelle dive into recording from two different timezones! The results are PRETTY GOOD! Dramatic reading background music by Ben...

Source: Flickr, The Commons Grab your opera glasses, witches, because this week Hannah is joined by actor, director, and playwright Jeremy Mason  for a discussion about the pleasures of reading plays, and why Rowling might have turned to the theatre for her newest addition to the Harry Potter canon. Don’t forget to take notes, because we’ll be asking you for your questions about  Ha...

Image source: Deviant Art Are you prepared for a rambling, margarita-fuelled discussion of pamphlets, propaganda, British fascism, lightning bolts, and how to browbeat your beloved hosts into getting your very own episode? No? Then you should probably skip this one. But if you actually  love all those things, plus gratuitous lightning sound effects*, then this minisode is for you! h...

Image source: Tumblr Welcome to our brand new podcast, The Harry Potter Hour, Starring Feminism! It’s a lot like our old podcast Witch, Please except, uh, Newer and Different! This truly is the last episode of classic Witch, Please , though. After this it’s all paratexts, minisodes, and shenanigans! No more rules, no more social decorum, no more consistency. If the episode seems a little earl...

photo credit: slgckgc on flickr But we’re not dead yet!  cry your coven mistresses as we claw our way back into your podcast apps. That’s right, witches! We still have two more official (and, like, scores more un official) episodes for you! Tonight we’re joined by real life guy with a film degree, Neale Barnholden, for the ultimate—no, no then pen ultimate—wait no! the  ante pe...

With Marcelle a million miles* away, we’re presenting to you a live event organized by Edmonton Potterwatch . “Project Firenze: Minority Representation in Fantasy Literature” was the organization’s first-ever live panel on that topic, focusing this time on the Magic in North America stories and the representation/appropriation of Indigenous cultures. We were joined by Lucinda Rasmussen a...

Well, this is it, witches. Buckle in for an extra long episode, because this is the LAST (third) part of our discussion of the LAST (seventh) book ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ) and we have a lot of ground to cover and old friends to mourn. But don’t you worry. Even though we make about a hundred jokes about it, we’ll be back with more moviesodes and minisodes before the summer is t...

Image Credit: Eric/Kimber on Flickr Howdy witches! Marcelle edited tonight’s episode in a flurry of packing so please forgive the dearth of whimsical sound effects! We hope that even without an obscene number of honks and hoots you’ll enjoy this second instalment of our discussion of  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . But, to be honest, we’re so internet famous now that we might jus...