Latest Announcements
Recent Comments
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Where’s the proof that child slavery is not being used in Harry Potter’s name?
As we enter the new year of 2012, we in the Harry Potter Alliance have a big vision of expanding our work with people from all over to translate the message of Harry Potter into our world: that love has a power beyond the reach of any magic. A crucial step in our world embodying [...]
Read More
Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
Thank you Kate Looby
Kate reminded me once that the real leader of the Harry Potter Alliance was its staff. And she is right: our staff make up the heart and soul of our organization, accomplishments, and vision for the future. And they would not be here were it not for the work and ingenuity of Kate Looby.
Read More
Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
The Warner Brother Who Stole Christmas
Let’s look to great storytellers like Dickens and Seuss with the hope that maybe this Christmas whatever mysterious force opened the heart of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch will open the heart of those at the top of Warner Bros.: CEO Barry Meyer and Senior Vice Presidents Barry Ziehl and Ana de Castro.
Read More
Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
Homophobia’s Legacy
20 years ago today, Magic Johnson came out as having HIV. It created a seismic shift in how mainstream and conservative America prioritized the funding of fighting AIDS. The fact that it took a heterosexual athletic celebrity to come out, however courageous Magic Johnson was in doing so, is in itself a tragedy. The worldwide AIDS epidemic could have been severely limited had it not been for homophobia. The greatest legacy of homophobia is NOT the prevention of marriage equality, it’s people in poor nations dying of AIDS without any medicine and dying alone, stigmatized by their communities. And it’s a legacy of gay men in New York City and San Francisco dying miserably and alone watching an American public watch them suffer and die without caring at all.
Read More
Posted in LGBTQ
Faith, Science, and Existence
I express my feelings around the ubiquity of faith in everything, including what so many people mistakenly believe is the enemy of faith: the scientific method. Rather than seeing our inevitable need for faith as some kind of never ending existential prison, I argue that it is some kind of never ending existential key.
Read More
Posted in Philosophical Musings
Batman versus Superman (continued: with Spiderman thrown into the mix)
Which of the two larger than life super heroes would you rather fall in love with? Batman or Superman? And/or which of the two would you rather be?
Read More
Posted in Comics, Harry Potter Alliance News
Batman versus Superman
In his groundbreaking work, “Supergods,” legendary comic book creator Grant Morrison poses that the world associates “Superman” with socialism and “Batman” with capitalism. Why is this? Further, what comics should comic novices like myself start reading? And lastly, what reasons do Batman and Superman have for ever fighting each other and on a symbolic level, does it have any thing to do with Mr. Morrison’s posit of different world views coming together?
Read More
Posted in Comics
People’s Movements are “Catching Fire”
The 20th century, pre-9/11 status quo has grown stale in humanity’s consciousness and no matter which way the arrow lands, the fact that it is spinning (in the form of the Arab Spring, Occupy, and Tea Party movements) means that it is breaking through what was otherwise perceived as static and entrenched barriers that the consolidation of power proved impossible to break through.
Read More
Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
Snape and Spike
There are striking similarities between Severus Snape and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let’s list some. Spoiler warning for Harry Potter and Buffy.
Read More
Posted in Accio Books
