“I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to
[META] OT3s: Disrupting the Intimate Society?
While reading Masamichi Inoue’s fascinating Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization recently, I came across a reference to Emmanuel Lévinas’ ideas about the nature of love and the “intimate society.” Love, Lévinas argues in
[META] First, Know Thyself
Along with the rest of the International Outreach committee, for the past few months I’ve been buried up to my eyeballs in hashing out questions to survey the Organization for Transformative Works’ volunteers and donors, as well as people who
[META] Telling a Truth about Otakon (and Other Things)
Although I’ve long since learned that thoughtful and well-researched articles of popular journalism about almost any aspect of fandom are the glaring exception to the rule, it was still quite frustrating to see The Washington Post follow suit in a
[META] Harry Potter, History, and Endings
Like much of the rest of the world, I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 last weekend. The Harry Potter books, and fandom, hold a very special place in my heart, and the seventh book
[ADMIN] A Historian Says Hello
There’s a certain propriety to the fact that I’m sitting in an apartment in Kyoto, Japan, as I write this post. Three and a half years ago, on a Fulbright Fellowship to Doshisha University in Kyoto, faced with a lot