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Trans rights are human rights.
Trans people are more important than Harry Potter.
The originator is actively harming the transgender (as well as agender, nonbinary, and other folks) communities at large in the name of “feminism.”
I want to be transparent about what this scholarship meant to me (emotionally, professionally, and financially). Since 2010, I have engaged in the scholarship around Harry Potter. In 2015, my article “Loading the Canon” was first published in the book A Wizard of their Age edited by Konchar-Farr, et al. I continued to engage in fandom scholarship broadly.
This 2016 project was also a result of that Harry Potter scholarship coupled with my library science career, something I pursued with a queried article in 2018.
Finally in 2018, I guested on the podcast We Got This as a “spin off” series of four episodes, talking about Harry Potter (People of the World).
Many of these projects brought me attention as an emerging academic. That makes me uncomfortable now! This statement is an explanation and a step towards restitution. I will not build on my scholarship, and have not since 2018.
To keep this site up and to keep these projects on my resume/cv without an explanation and a denouncement would be irresponsible. To remove it would be disingenuous. This is how I spent eight years of scholarship, and I cannot pretend it didn’t happen.
I have made a total of $300 in speaking fees. As of December 2021, I have donated $100 to Mermaids UK and $200 to Reclaim (a Minnesota charity focused on increasing access to mental health support for queer and trans youth ages 13-25).
I will continue to educate and ally myself to LGBTQIA+ community (communities) in a way that centers their experiences and their works.
Thank you for reading.
Kate McManus
January, 2022
Trans people are more important than Harry Potter.
The originator is actively harming the transgender (as well as agender, nonbinary, and other folks) communities at large in the name of “feminism.”
I want to be transparent about what this scholarship meant to me (emotionally, professionally, and financially). Since 2010, I have engaged in the scholarship around Harry Potter. In 2015, my article “Loading the Canon” was first published in the book A Wizard of their Age edited by Konchar-Farr, et al. I continued to engage in fandom scholarship broadly.
This 2016 project was also a result of that Harry Potter scholarship coupled with my library science career, something I pursued with a queried article in 2018.
Finally in 2018, I guested on the podcast We Got This as a “spin off” series of four episodes, talking about Harry Potter (People of the World).
Many of these projects brought me attention as an emerging academic. That makes me uncomfortable now! This statement is an explanation and a step towards restitution. I will not build on my scholarship, and have not since 2018.
To keep this site up and to keep these projects on my resume/cv without an explanation and a denouncement would be irresponsible. To remove it would be disingenuous. This is how I spent eight years of scholarship, and I cannot pretend it didn’t happen.
I have made a total of $300 in speaking fees. As of December 2021, I have donated $100 to Mermaids UK and $200 to Reclaim (a Minnesota charity focused on increasing access to mental health support for queer and trans youth ages 13-25).
I will continue to educate and ally myself to LGBTQIA+ community (communities) in a way that centers their experiences and their works.
Thank you for reading.
Kate McManus
January, 2022
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Kate McManus
Date
2021
Collection Items
Why are you interested in audiovisual digital preservation and/or preservation of public media?
A letter answering the NDSR question, "Why are you interested in audiovisual digital preservation and/or preservation of public media?"
Rumors & Reference: Raiding Information in Harry's World
An article that I briefly queried in 2018. It was not selected for publication, but it is a conversation with this project and other conversations about academic librarianship.