For this FandomFirstFriday, let’s talk about time travel and how it might – if – it relates to fannishness. I was actually surprised to find literature on this relationship so I definitely have learned something new thanks to this month’s
The queerness of fandom spaces
Thus, we see fandom itself as queer in essence, as it has positioned itself as a „heterotopia” – a social and communal space that has been in constant exchange and contestation with mainstream society and cultures. Lavin, Maud; Yang, Ling;
On 50 Shades and Publishing Fic
When [E.L] James erased her fan fiction from online fan archives, she deleted a part of the cultural heritage of her fellow fans to the detriment of their community, and she denied the explicitly communal nature of the authorship of
Examining consent in dubcon/non-con fanfiction
In order to create a transformative work based on canon work, a fan would need to recognize several elements of said canon. One of these elements might not be an inherent part of the transformativeness but it has become a
On fans and Twitter:
[…] [T]he entire spectrum of fandom uses Twitter as an online space to bridge the problematic speciations of resistant versus complicit, as well as the increasingly inapplicable, even meaningless ‘fan/creator’ separation. Such spaces foster ample material all along that spectrum
Racebent Harry and Ronan fan work offers queer-of-color revisions of the characters, centering around queer romances for both boys—Harry with school rival Draco Malfoy, and Ronan with his in-series boyfriend Adam Parrish. By depicting two characters of color at the
AO3 and its design values
Since its launch in 2008, Archive of Our Own (AO3) has grown to amass nearly 750,000 users and over 2 million individual fan fiction works.2 Its code is open source, and the archive has been designed, coded, and maintained nearly
On fan culture and activism…
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
Fanhackers relaunches new and improved website
The team behind Fanhackers, the OTW’s project to make fan studies research accessible to fans, is excited to announce the relaunch of our WordPress site. Over the past years, we’ve built a wonderful following on Tumblr with quotes from academic and non-academic research
Fandom isn’t just fandom. It’s an institution where many people learn a lot about life since they tend to get into it from a young age. And if fandom itself isn’t capable of recognizing when it’s going wrong because desire