Last time, in this post, we talked about fanwork’s immortality. To discuss its fleeting nature is not to discount that argument. Fanworks are no mayflowers, blooming once and then nevermore. Maybe they are mirages, light reflecting back in the most
Fan Archiving, Part 2
Fans’ archive building and archive maintenance constitute attempts to prove to the future that particular queer and female ways of being and making existed. If fan archivists did not carefully assemble such proof, women and queer fans’ digital collective actions
Fan Archiving, Part 1
Achille Mbembe states that archives confer status on their contents, and on the culture and society that produced those contents: “The archive … is fundamentally a matter of discrimination and of selection, which, in the end, results in the granting
Media fandom is an ephemeral culture, and online fandom even more so. A printed zine from the 1970s may last longer than a story published online in the last six months. In fact, continual changes in publication preference and fannish