Bayana Davis

She/Her/Hers

Co-Founder & Editor In Chief

Black Girls Create

Participates in 9 items

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

Friday 11 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:45 PM

#WizardTeam Live: Snakes in a Historian and Other Nightmare Fuel

1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom

Podcast

Maggie Brevig (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Constance Gibbs, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Delia Gallegos, Black Girls Create (Participant)

#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...

2:00 PM

Harry Potter and the Gendered Dynamics of the Wizarding (WHAT? A GENDERED WORD?) World

1 hour, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Beacon Hill Complex

Panel

Sam Harris (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Jackson Bird, Sorted: Growing Up (Participant)

From the Hogwarts house dormitories, magical occupations, and the representations of women of color in the series, gender permeates the magical wor...

3:15 PM

Wait and See: Gatekeeping in the Wizarding World and Beyond

1 hour, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom

Panel

Maggie Brevig (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Constance Gibbs, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Delia Gallegos, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Abby Ritter, Mischief Management (Participant)

At a time where most media has broadly recognized that representation matters, new Harry Potter properties seem to be lagging behind, leavin...

Saturday 12 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:15 AM

Marauder’s Maps and Forbidden Forests: A Conversation On What Harry Potter Can Teach Us

1 hour, 10:15 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Cityview Ballroom

Panel

Jill Kolongowski, College of San Mateo (Participant)

Vanessa Zoltan, Not-Sorry productions and Harry Potter & the Sacred Text (Participant)

Ariana Nedelman, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published over 20 years ago, yet Harry, Hermione, and Ron continue to inspire. Why? The generati...

11:30 AM

An Excess of "Phlegm" and the Lack of Femme

1 hour, 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Seaport Hotel Boston - Seaport Ballroom

Panel

Delia Gallegos, Black Girls Create (Moderator)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Porshéa Patterson-Hurst, The Harry Potter Alliance (Participant)

Jasmine Rose Schmitt, University of Texas at Austin (Participant)

Heroines of Harry Potter are often presented as and praised for not being classically feminine, while "feminine" characters are seen as inhe...

12:45 PM

Time Travel in the Wizarding World: The When, the How, the Why, and the When

1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Waterfront Ballroom

Lecture

Alberto Bec (Participant)

Aliza Weinberger (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

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...

3:15 PM

Potterheads of Color Meetup

1 hour, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Beacon Hill Complex

Meetup

Ashley Hamel, Ashley Trix & the WZRDS (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Constance Gibbs, Black Girls Create (Participant)

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...

Sunday 13 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:30 AM

You Cannot Deny, the Wizarding World's Got Style

1 hour, 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Cityview Ballroom

Panel

Delia Gallegos, Black Girls Create (Moderator)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Porshéa Patterson-Hurst, The Harry Potter Alliance (Participant)

Discussions of fashion in the Wizarding World are sorely lacking. We three fashion conscious witches want to know more about robes and dress robes,...

12:45 PM

The Origin of House-Elves

1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Harborview Ballroom

Panel

Porshéa Patterson-Hurst, The Harry Potter Alliance (Participant)

Bayana Davis, Black Girls Create (Participant)

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...