"Within the Harry Potter fandom on Tumblr there's a slowly growing community of people who believe Snape was trans, or choose to explore this possibility some of us just couldn't stop typing, drawing, or thinking about it, and so Trans Snape Week was born," Ensnapingthesenses said in an interview with Broadly. Read more: Inside the Babadiscourse: How 'The Babadook' Became a Queer Icon The annual event was created in 2015, by Tumblr user Ensnapingthesenses, a 26-year-old trans man from Spain. The festivities include citing excerpts from the source text that point to Snape's true gender identity, drawing fanfic illustrations of Snape as a woman, and even creating trans Snape mood boards. Every year, during the first week of August, they celebrate Trans Snape Week-seven days dedicated to honoring Severus Snape as a trans woman. For the last few years, this group of true believers has built their theory through close re-readings of the texts, spurring vivid discourse about Snape's underlying feminine identity. Like all great fandom cultures, the trans Snape community lives on Tumblr.
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