Fan culture offers a history of appropriation and critical engagement with pop culture that could inform broader activist strategies toward increased visibility and collective identity formation.
Brough, Melissa M., and Sangita Shresthova. 2011. ‘Fandom Meets Activism: Rethinking Civic and Political Participation’. Transformative Works and Cultures 10 (March). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0303.
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