Abstract
This chapter looks at a specific type of resistant fan production—racebent Harry Potter fanart, which adds diversity to canon by reimagining canonically white characters as people of color—to explore how memory and the cultural process of remembering together via social media affinity spaces are integral to a critical, antiracist project realized through racebending fan artists' work. This chapter places fan voices in dialogue with the academic critique of race in Rowling's novels and film adaptations, and examines several fanart images that are drawings of imaginary photographs or photographic cosplay art and their metatexts—or hashtags and written commentary—to emphasize fanart's sophisticated, multi-layered intertextuality or metafictionality. This paper argues that despite its complexity as text, the visual medium gives racebent Potter fanart currency as an activist tool, connecting to both a larger antiracist activist tradition and a contemporary activist movement.
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