Sonorus #5

Sonorus: Feminist Perspectives on Harry Potter #5

Issue 5 includes:

• Why Molly Weasley is a feminist role model
• The trouble with smut
• Love Potions
• Harry Potter ladies I would love to be queer, but I don’t want JK Rowling to say she intended to be
• The gender binary is not magical
• Girl Left Behind: some theories on Petunia
• Voldemort, muggles, and the cotton ceiling
• On the casting of Johnny Depp in the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ series (and Rowling’s continued support of Depp)
• Merope Gaunt
• Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Carry On’ as a feminist critique of ‘Harry Potter’
• Reflections on the Harry Potter fandom

Submission deadline and prize draw extended to 31st October 2017!

We have extended our call for submissions until 31st October 2017, and all submissions and zine purchases are still eligible for our prize draw, where you can win some HP-themed jewellery, temporary tattoos or stickers! Click here for more info.

Prize draw open to all who buy a copy or submit an article this summer!

The Sonorus Team are running a giveaway over the summer, until 1st October 2017!

Every zine order or article submission will get placed in a prize draw to win one of these 4 excellent prizes (1 entry for zine orders, 2 entries for article submissions):

1. Hogwarts Crest gold necklace

2. Harry Potter silver charm bracelet

3. Harry Potter scar and glasses gold necklace

4. Harry Potter vinyl sticker set and temporary tattoos set

 

RULES

1. Every person who places a shop order between now and 11.59pm in 1st October 2017 will have their name put into a prize draw to win one of the two items above.
2. Every person who submits an item for issue 5 of Sonorus between now and 11.59pm on 1st October will have their name put into a prize draw TWICE to win one of the two items above (NB: each person only gets for 1 prize).
3. In the “special instructions” form on the paypal payment for a shop order, or in the email containing the submission, please write which of the prizes would be your preference ranked from 1 to 4 (e.g. first preference: tattoos, second preference: charm bracelet…). We’ll draw 4 names at random – the first name will get their preferred item, the second name will get their next preference, and so on.  If you have no preference, please say “no preference” and the next name drawn will get their preferred item.
4. Each person who places a shop order, no matter how many orders, is only eligible for 1 entry.
5. Each person who submits an item for Sonorus #5, no matter how many submissions, is only eligible for 2 entries.
6. A person who submits an item AND places a shop order will have their name put in THREE times.

Read our call for submissions here.

Good luck!

Team Sonorus x

Submissions open for issue 5 – prize draw for all who submit!

Submissions are now open for Sonorus: Feminist Perspectives on Harry Potter issue five!

As always, we are looking for submissions related to gender and social justice in the Harry Potter books, films and fandom, and connected to the series as a cultural phenomenon. We can accept:

1. Articles
2. Opinion pieces
3. Fan fiction (on a related theme)
4. Fan art (on a related theme)

Feel free to interpret the theme however works for you! Due to not wanting to replicate ideas we will only be able to print articles which are different from those featured in previous issues (a list of pieces from previous issues are now available on the shop page). All other submissions (as long as they are well-evidenced and not discriminatory in any way) will be printed in the zine.

To celebrate our fifth issue, everyone who submits an article or buys a previous issue will get entered into a prize draw. The prizes and rules will be revealed next month!

The deadline for submissions is 1^st October 2017.

We welcome submissions from people of any gender, and from new writers as well as people who submitted to previous issues.

Please send submissions and questions to sonoruszine@gmail.com.

Happy writing!

Christmas Post Dates

If you’d like to buy Sonorus as a Christmas gift, please note the following order cut-off dates – this is the last date we can receive an order to be able to post it before Christmas!

• UK – Monday 19th December
• France, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg – Thursday 15th December
• Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland – Wednesday 14th December
• USA, Canada, Finland, Sweden – Tuesday 13th December

All orders made from any country not listed above have missed the Christmas post cut-off and so will not arrive before Christmas – sorry!

We are also not posting any orders between Friday 23rd – Tuesday 27th December due to the Christmas break – any orders made during this time will be posted on the 28th.

Merry Christmas!

Team Sonorus x

Sonorus #4

Sonorus: Feminist Perspectives on Harry Potter #4

Issue 4 includes:

• The Betrayal of Bellatrix Lestrange
• Hot Applied Science
• Skeeter, Maxime, and Boggarts: Transmisogyny in Harry Potter
• Black Hermione and Gay Dumbledore: The Problem with Retroactive Diversity
• Some Moaning about Myrtle
• Peripheral Girls: Female Supporting Characters in Drarry Fanfiction
• On Fanfiction and Consent
• Houses and Hierarchies: Division From School to Society in Harry Potter
• Witches and Wizards: Positions of Authority
• Women Representation in HP Fanfiction: Better or worse than canon?
• Representation in ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
• Is JK Rowling literature’s George Lucas? On why JK Rowling needs to stop tinkering with the Harry Potter Universe

Deadline extended: 31st October 2016

The deadline for submissions for the 4th issue of Sonorus has been extended to 31st October 2016!

As always, we are looking for submissions related to gender in the Harry Potter books, film and fandom, and connected to the series as a cultural phenomenon. We can accept:

• Articles
• Opinion pieces
• Fan fiction (on a related theme)
• Fan art (on a related theme)

Some prompts to consider:

Female role models in the series

Feminism/ social justice in the Wizarding World

Your favourite character – can they be seen as a ‘feminist’ character?

Gender roles in the series

The differences between the books and the films and their impact on gender

Race in the series

Fan fiction – the interpretation of characters by fans and how gender is affected by this

Gender and careers in the series

LGBT issues in the series/the fandom

Women in sport in the series

Femininity/masculinity in the series

Gender in relation to good vs. evil

Motherhood in the series

Relationships in the series and in fan fiction

J.K. Rowling as a female writer

This list is by no means exhaustive!  Due to not wanting to replicate ideas we will only be able to print articles which are different from those featured in previous issues (a list of pieces from previous issues are now available on the shop page). All other submissions (as long as they are not discriminatory in any way) will be printed in this or a future issue of the zine.

We welcome submissions from people of any gender, and from new writers as well as people who submitted to previous issues.

Please send submissions and questions to sonoruszine@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION CALL: Sonorus #4

Submissions are now open for the 4th issue of Sonorus: Feminist Perspectives on Harry Potter!

Sonorus is a compzine, edited by three UK-based Harry Potter fans and feminists. We can accept:

• Articles
• Opinion pieces
• Fan fiction (on a related theme)
• Fan art (on a related theme)

Some prompts to consider:

Female role models in the series

Feminism/ social justice in the Wizarding World

Your favourite character – can they be seen as a ‘feminist’ character?

Gender roles in the series

The differences between the books and the films and their impact on gender

Race in the series

Fan fiction – the interpretation of characters by fans and how gender is affected by this

Gender and careers in the series

LGBT issues in the series/the fandom

Women in sport in the series

Femininity/masculinity in the series

Gender in relation to good vs. evil

Motherhood in the series

Relationships in the series and in fan fiction

J.K. Rowling as a female writer

This list is by no means exhaustive, and we are interested in any submissions related to gender in the Harry Potter books, film and fandom, and connected to the series as a cultural phenomenon!  Due to not wanting to replicate ideas we will only be able to print articles which are different from those featured in previous issues (a list of pieces from issue one is now available on the shop page). All other submissions (as long as they are not discriminatory in any way) will be printed in this or a future issue of the zine.

We welcome submissions from people of any gender, and from new writers as well as people who submitted to previous issues.

Please send submissions and questions to sonoruszine@gmail.com.  The deadline for submissions is 30th September 2016.

 

We look forward to hearing from you!

WEIRDO ZINE FEST: Sunday 31 January 2016

Team Sonorus will be tabling at this month’s Weirdo Zine Fest, taking place on Sunday 31 January, 1 – 8pm in DIY Space for London (96-108 Ormside Street, SE15 1TF), where we will be selling all 3 issues of Sonorus, as well as zines created by the editors Cath and Kirsty. Hope to see you there! 🙂

WEIRDO ZINE FEST is a new zine fair privileging radical and marginalised voices. It’s happening at DIY space for London.

Preference for tables will be given to women, queers, POC, trans, genderqueer, non-binary, intersex, disabled, working class and otherwise marginalised folks.

TIMETABLE FOR THE DAY:

1-5:30: ZINE FAIR (c. 30 tables full of radical and important DIY publications)
5:30-6:15: SUPER EXCITING PANEL DISCUSSION (details tbc soon!)
6:15-8:00: Informal social with weirdo zine readings (anyone welcome to read, sign up on the day!).

Also open on the day: Joey’s Kitchen for delicious vegan foods/non-booze drinks.

We are hosting this at DIY space for London. Accessibility information is here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/about/ (wheelchair accessible venue and toilets, gender neutral toilets). No sexism/racism/homophobia/ableism/transphobia/fatphobia/classism/SWERFs etc will be tolerated.

If you’re staying for the post-6pm activities (when the bar opens!), you’ll need to be a member of DIY space (or a guest of a member). Membership costs £2 and takes 48 hours to take effect. Join and pay atdiyspaceforlondon.org.

More info and RSVP at the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/865940280157674/.

Important note re Xmas order deadlines

If you’re thinking of buying Sonorus as a Christmas gift, here are the deadlines for orders to be guaranteed arrival in time for Christmas Day!

Friday 18 December – UK

International:
Thursday 3 December – Africa and Middle East.
Saturday 5 December – Asia, Cyprus, Far East, Japan, Eastern Europe (ex. Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Monday 7 December – Caribbean, Central & South America.
Wednesday 9 December – Greece, Australia, New Zealand.
Thursday 10 December – HM Forces Mail to Static BFPO’s
Saturday 12 December – Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Poland, Canada, Finland, Sweden and USA.
Tuesday 15 December – Austria, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
Wednesday 16 December – France.
Thursday 17 December – Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Also please note that we will be away on our holidays on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day (24th – 26th December), so any orders placed on these dates will be posted on the 27th December.

Team Sonorus x