Youth Advocacy

At Fandom Forward, we work to expand the political and social capital of young people, through our campaigns and our leadership development programs. Here’s some of our campaigns:

Granger 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, Hermione Granger’s fake presidential campaign created real world change by providing fans with ways to take action and find joy and community from home. By the end of March 2020, we raised over $20k for Team Granger. This fundraiser allowed us to mobilize thousands of fans to take action virtually, working together to build a future grounded in compassion, equality, and love. We had our first ever Small Things Con, a 100% free, digital conference filled with weeks of livestreams, actions, and community care that we can all do together. We participated in online voter registration efforts, offered voter education resources, and hosted Camp GLA, the first virtual Granger Leadership Academy, which trained 340 wizard activists in key community organizing skills.

march for our lives (2018)

March 24 marked the March for Our Lives, a nationwide movement in the U.S. to reduce gun violence and stop needless, tragic school shootings, inspired by the survivors of the Parkland, FL school shooting. Fandom Forward released our Wands Up Walk Out planning toolkit and numerous chapters participated, like the Potsdam Patronuses who staged a school walk out and the Highland Burrow who led an education campaign about reducing gun sales and gun violence in their hometown of Chilhowie, Virginia.

Wizard Rock the Vote (2008)

In the summer of 2008, MTV launched a campaign called “Rock the Vote” in an effort to encourage young viewers to be more politically active. In conjunction with this, Fandom Forward volunteers set out to assist fellow wizards in navigating the voter registration process in a similar campaign called “Wizards Rock the Vote”. Much of this campaign was on-the-ground voter registration that took place at wizard rock concerts all over the country. With the help of two volunteers assigned to each of the 92 wizard rock concerts, over 900 new voters were registered.