Geekery

Even My Soft Butch Hufflepuff Dreamboat Couldn’t Redeem the Cash-Grabbing Mess of “Hogwarts Mystery”

Merlin’s Beard, Jam City! Way to take all the magic out of Hogwarts!

Books

Try Your Liquid Luck With This Harry Potter Trivia Quiz

Don’t count your owls before they’re delivered!

A+

Riese Finally Read Harry Potter: The Autostraddle Interview

It was a real treat watching her learn to love the series too, and so when she was all finished, I called her up on the phone and talked to her about her magical journey.

Fashion/Style

Nails by Nic: Accio! Harry Potter House Pride Manicure

Celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with a magical manicure.

Society + Culture

Witch Hunt: The Vernal Equinox Makes Everything New Again

A playlist for curing a broken heart, thoughts from a witch who watched The Witch, a celebration from the Witch in Into the Woods, a rumination on rituals, a new original illustration from Molly Ostertag, and so much more magical goodness awaits you inside.

Society + Culture

Witch Hunt: What’s Your Witchsona?

Some of our favorite artists draw themselves as witches, Rachel makes you a playlist for your ritual healing bath, KaeLyn crafts an amulet, Maree reminds us why Practical Magic is so good, Maddie weighs on on witchy commerce, Heather talks about black cats, and so much more!

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Wizarding Schools, Chin Talk and Other Stories to Start Your Week

Lots of Harry Potter stuff happening right now, emotional complexity, late people, rich kids and veggies, reparations, being a teenage girl, “diversity,” and honestly more amazing stuff than you can shake a stick at, so get in here.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Quidditch Beer Pong, Taco Cleanses, and Other Stories to Start Your Year

Bears, tacos, the horseshoe crab’s lot in life, QUIDDITCH BEER PONG, mental health on campus, suburban churches, queer zines you need to read, talk of Britney Spears, migrant workers’ rights, and so much more!

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: It’s True, Hermione Granger is Black and Other Stories to Make Your Day

Drink pairings for your uncomfortable conversations this week, I make up a new emoji cereal, Star Wars a little, comebacks to racist stuff, videos you can watch and enjoy, black Hermione Granger and so very much more!

Food and Drink

A Muggle’s Quest For The Perfect Mug Of (Alcoholic) Butterbeer

I’m not interested in the kiddie theme park variety made of cream soda and syrup from a squeeze bottle; I want hot, alcoholic, grown-ass woman butterbeer.

Geekery

How To Harry Potter Your Technology: The Kit

Ravenclaw4ever.

Society + Culture

The Top 15 Witches According to My Bruja Heart

I’m pretty sure most of us who were weird kids grew up wanting to be witches, I know I did.So let’s celebrate that fact!

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Lesbian Teacher Fired for Being Preggos and Other Stories We Missed

Why everyone should read Harry Potter, the science of beer, race and the wealth gap, Serena Williams, Mississippi, a cute snail picture, the Tindr lawsuit, and radical, represented, revolutionary and rebooted women in film.

Film Television

Let’s Talk About Fictional Kickass Heroines: Katniss, Xena, Buffy and More

Here at Autostraddle, we love kickass women. We’re presenting a list of 20 of our favorite kickass fictional heroines as a way to jumpstart this feelingsfest and leaving the rest up to you!