Identity Politics: from Harry Potter to Iran

Join our Patreon 🅿️   / scintillaepod   🅿️ In this video essay, we dive into the "complex" topic of J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series, exploring differing opinions within the transgender and lgbtq communities, discussing our stance on the jk rowling controversy and also touch on current events like the iran protests and broader middle east news, delving in the meaning of identity politics, neoliberal individualism, choice feminism, to hopefully give you the tools, especially if you're a white progressive person, to understand how to critically consider topics and understand who needs your help when you get told to shut up in the face of "nuance" and weaponised identity politics, considering the cases of Venezuelan and Iranian diaspora against the people still living in those countries. It was originally published in April 2026 over at ‪@activistwitch‬ Emma's GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-em-ge... 🕰️ CHAPTERS 🕰️ 00:00 Identity Politics: from Harry Potter to Iran 01:29 Introduction: Witchtube Gossip 08:11 Choice feminism to Choice Oppression 22:23 Tokenism 25:06 Colonialism 37:49 The Racism of Carl Jung's Shadow 46:45 Empire 01:05:29 Conclusions: How to tell what side is right? 📚BIBLIOGRAPHY📚 Talia Bhatt - Trans / Rad / fem https://taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem Talia Bhatt - Brown / Trans / Les https://taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch https://archive.org/details/CalibanAn... Why the UK supreme court ruling on Biological Sex makes YOU lose rights Video Essay    • Why the UK supreme court ruling on Biologi...   Liz Truss and Right Wing Women 👩👩👩 Why All 3 Female UK Prime Ministers have been Conservative    • Liz Truss and Right Wing Women 👩👩👩 Why All...   Fictional Men We'd Like to F*ck    • We need to talk about our favourite abusiv...   The Combahee River Collective Statement https://americanstudies.yale.edu/site... Michaele Ferguson - Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics https://archive.org/stream/AnarchismR... Wikipedia - Woman, Life, Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman,_... Talia Bhatt - No Country for Non-Men https://taliabhattwrites.substack.com... Oyeronke Oyěwùmí - African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood https://archive.org/details/africanwo... Talia Bhatt - The Coloniality of Gender Studies, or: What is a Not-Woman? https://taliabhattwrites.substack.com... Jane Johnson & Helen Morgan - Jung and Racism https://www.britishpsychotherapyfound... Le Monde - Britain's 'grooming gangs' under renewed scrutiny and investigations https://www.lemonde.fr/en/internation... The Guardian - The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021... Politics Home - No, ‘Blacks’ did not ‘sell Blacks into slavery’ https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse... Wikipedia - Indians in Uganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians... Counterfire - Chavez, Venezuela, and the ‘Bolivarian revolution’ https://www.counterfire.org/article/c... Gold and Geopolitics - Iran: Deep dive https://no01.substack.com/p/iran-deep... Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi - In Pursuit of Whiteness: Why Iranian Monarchists Cheer Israel’s Genocide https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46906 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/reza-zia... 🎼 MUSIC 🎼 🎶 Chris Zabriskie - I F*ck You Not https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/a... ℹ️ License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...