Bayana Davis is a proud Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff hatstall born and raised in Oakland, California. She is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Black Girls Create and co-host of the podcast #WizardTeam. She is a fierce advocate of critical fandom, the increased representation of Black women in media, time travel, dragons, and avoiding the AI apocalypse. You can generally find her fangirling on Twitter at @yana_hallows.
Sessions in which Bayana Davis participates
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- #WizardTeam Live: Snakes in a Historian and Other Nightmare Fuel Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom
- 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 1 hour
- #WizardTeam is a weekly Harry Potter podcast for true Potterheads. Each week Bayana Davis and Robyn Jordan do a close reread of the books ch...
- Podcast
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Harry Potter and the Gendered Dynamics of the Wizarding (WHAT? A GENDERED WORD?) World Seaport World Trade Center - Beacon Hill Complex
- 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
- From the Hogwarts house dormitories, magical occupations, and the representations of women of color in the series, gender permeates the magical wor...
- Panel
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Wait and See: Gatekeeping in the Wizarding World and Beyond Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom
- 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT | 1 hour
- At a time where most media has broadly recognized that representation matters, new Harry Potter properties seem to be lagging behind, leavin...
- Panel
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Marauder’s Maps and Forbidden Forests: A Conversation On What Harry Potter Can Teach Us Seaport World Trade Center - Cityview Ballroom
- 10:15 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 1 hour
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published over 20 years ago, yet Harry, Hermione, and Ron continue to inspire. Why? The generati...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- An Excess of "Phlegm" and the Lack of Femme Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom
- 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Heroines of Harry Potter are often presented as and praised for not being classically feminine, while "feminine" characters are seen as inhe...
- Panel
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Time Travel in the Wizarding World: The When, the How, the Why, and the When Seaport World Trade Center - Waterfront Ballroom
- 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Time-Turners. They pop up in the Harry Potter universe as confusing plot devices, but their secret is that they are part of a much larger tr...
- Lecture
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Potterheads of Color Meetup Seaport World Trade Center - Beacon Hill Complex
- 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Are you a Potterhead of Color looking to be nerdy with other Potterheads of Color? Come to this meetup to discuss the students of color at Hogwarts...
- Meetup
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- You Cannot Deny, the Wizarding World's Got Style Seaport World Trade Center - Cityview Ballroom
- 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Discussions of fashion in the Wizarding World are sorely lacking. We three fashion conscious witches want to know more about robes and dress robes,...
- Panel
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- The Origin of House-Elves Seaport World Trade Center - Harborview Ballroom
- 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 1 hour
- This session will trace and speculate about the history and magic of house-elves. Join us as we talk about what their lives might have been like be...
- Panel