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 and Roxanne Harde from the University of Alberta, and moderators Emily Hoven and Nina Legesse, to talk about YA, North American history, and the empowerment of owls in Rowling’s work.

(Please pardon the sound quality: it was a live venue and we had one mic to share amongst six speakers of wildly varying volumes!)

http://ohwitchplease.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WitchPlease-20160613-EXiProjectFirenze.mp3Download this soft-spoken episode

Further Reading:

• Killer of Enemies, by Joseph Bruchac
• Lightfinder, by Aaron Paquette
• Summerland, by Michael Chabon
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
• The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich
• Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada, by Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker
• “My Year of Watching Only Women on Netflix”

*11, 134 km

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