Fandom Friendships: A Zine explores and honors friendships made and sustained through fandom. The zine was open to contributions from anyone and solicited contributions last year. Contributors were asked questions like: Just some of what this compilation includes tells the story of:
Fandom Friendships Zine
Hey you! Have you made friends or found community through fandom? We want to hear about your experience! What is this? This is a zine, or a DIY collection of your submissions! It’ll be a booklet that is made available
Help a Researcher
Leigh Ingram, a student at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, is completing a Master of Information Studies. The proposed research for their thesis is on information seeking behaviours in the fanfiction community, with a specific focus on how AO3
Calling all LGBTQIA+ fan fiction readers and writers!
A fourth year student at the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) at Northwestern University is conducting a research project, “LGBTQIA+ Identity Exploration and Expression Through Self-Insert Fanfiction,” which will examine the experiences of queer and trans readers and
An Interview With The Media Fandom Oral History Project
I interviewed the organizers of the Media Fandom Oral History Project, and they shared about the project and what makes it important! The project collects oral histories (interviews) from fans about their fannish experiences. Oral histories help fans define for
“Fan perspectives of queer representation in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Tumblr and AO3,” by Rachel Marks
How do fans engage with the source material when there’s already canonical queer representation? Rachel Marks looks at the fandoms for the DC Comics TV shows (like Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), which have been including queer
“The ‘Fanfic Lens’: Fan Writing’s Impact on Media Consumption,” by Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford
These excerpts are from Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford’s article, “The ‘Fanfic Lens’: Fan Writing’s Impact on Media Consumption,” which can be read for free here! Silberstein-Bamford writes that the internet has allowed people to move from solely passively consuming to also participating
“Teaching trans studies through fan fiction in college English classrooms,” by Peizhen Wu
This excerpt is from “Teaching trans studies through fan fiction in college English classes” by Peizhen Wu. It can be read for free on Transformative Works and Cultures! Wu argues that trans studies should be taught widely, not just in
“How Teen Wolf’s transmasculine fans use online fandom to build community and representation,” by Ari Page
In an article from the most recent issue of Transformative Works and Cultures (view the article for free here!), Ari Page argues that queerness is not explicitly or adequately written into the show Teen Wolf, so trans fans create trans
“Regeneration and trans possibility in Doctor Who,” by Damien Hagen
These excerpts are from Damien Hagen’s “Regeneration and trans possibility in Doctor Who,” which was published in the most recent issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, OTW’s open access journal. It’s free to read… here (click the button that says