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clare-with-no-i · 11 months

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I was thinking earlier about squibs and JKR’s flawed rendering of disability in the HP books — and how, sort of in spite of her, exposition about the anti-squib nature of the magical world might actually serve as a sound allegory for social modeling of disability irl — so I perused the internet and found this really interesting academic article about Filch, Arabella Figg, and the quiet pervasiveness of abeism which underlies the series.

I particularly enjoyed this passage at the end, which I think really drives home what can be so radically good about fanfiction. highly recommend reading

#it's a short article!#which should make it more enticing!#shoutout to ms Meghan Rhodes at GW for writing this #discourse #i also have a lot of thoughts about the magical world as a social model for disability #they are half formed but they center around how pointedly indulgent the HP magical world is #as in: so many of the things that are done with magic are done so #for very little reason other than to do them with magic #and i think that reflects the way that tech and development are pointedly exclusionary #towards disabled ppl irl — based on the theory that disability reflects a macro problem #of a state's inability or unwillingness to accommodate people of all ranges of mobility etc #and is not at all an individual-centered issue #anyway i ramble but #pls read this!#esp fic writers who incorporate these characters!

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