It’s the last days of the April membership drive of the Organization for Transformative Works! The OTW and its people make sure that platforms like Fanhackers, Transformative Works and Cultures, the Archive of Our Own, and Fanlore are there for everyone to use and enjoy. They’re also
[ADMIN] Intro post: Marina
*taps mic* Hi! I’m Marina, one of the (new) regular writes for Fanhackers. I’ve been in fandom since I was roughly thirteen years old (insert fond memories of printing out La Femme Nikita/DS9 crossovers and putting them in a big
[ADMIN] Input wanted: proposed changes to Fanhackers’ policy on quoting fannish meta
Fanhackers launched a week ago with a policy on not quoting or linking to fannish meta without permission. Following thoughtful discussion in various public and private places, like here, we’re proposing to change that policy to something in this vein:
[ADMIN] Quick note: all RSS/DW/LJ feeds of the Symposium Blog now point to its successor, Fanhackers
To everyone who used to be subscribed to TWC’s Symposium Blog via an RSS feed, Dreamwidth feed, or LiveJournal feed: this blog has been rebooted into a new blog called Fanhackers, and the name of the feed changed to reflect
[ADMIN] Introducing Fanhackers, a directory of informative things about fans
The Journal committee is proud to announce that Fanhackers, the shinier and more experimental new incarnation of the Symposium blog, is now open for business! Short version Fanhackers is a place for fans, academics, activists, and anyone else with an
[ADMIN] Posting at Symposium temporarily slowing down due to blog reboot
The contributors to the Symposium blog are currently working on a soft reboot of the blog, so regular posting will happen at a much slower pace than usual for a while. We’ll be back in a month with more excellent
[ADMIN] The joy of loopholes
Last year, Andrea Horbinski wrote a self-introduction post here that started out like this: 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
[ADMIN] Signal Boosting – April Fundraising and Membership Drive!
Spring is here, at least in Ohio, and the world is buzzing with life. It’s a time when I start to realize how grateful I am to those people who sustain me during the winter, when trees are bare and
[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
[ADMIN] Dana says farewell
It’s been exactly a year since this blog was launched, and I am proud and pleased to have helped get it started. Thank you, Nina and Karen, for inviting me to the party! This will be my final regular post