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
Omegaverse and Racialization
While the omegaverse opens up possibilities of playing with gender and sexuality in new and interesting ways, the stories overwhelmingly focus on pairings between two white men, effectively foreclosing their progressive potential and recentering whiteness. Further, omegaverse stories often exist
On women’s voices in Jewish textual tradition and fanworks
Those of us who came of age fannishly in late twentieth-century Western media fandom grew up fannishly in a paradigm wherein fandom as practiced by boys and men tends to mean consuming, collecting, and indexing, whereas fandom as practiced by
The tension between the private act of journaling and the public sharing of journal entries via a social network architecture makes LiveJournal a site of performance (Kendall 2007; Lindemann 2005). Busse (2006) observes that women sharing fan fiction with one
When Men Write Fanfiction, It Isn’t Fanfiction Because It’s “Academic”
When Men Write Fanfiction, It Isn’t Fanfiction Because It’s “Academic” Some of you might have spotted this week’s kerfuffle about how it if was written by a dude it can’t be fanfic, in the guise of an interview with author
While they received a lot of hostility and hate posts, the Brony audience did not respond to the trolls in kind. As with many internet groups, the Brony audience used catchphrases and memes such as “welcome to the herd” or
By revising contemporary narratives of both book history and fan history, we can reread women’s work in the literary and book trades from the seventeenth and the twenty-first centuries as a function of operating with and subverting patriarchal norms of
Contemporary fan fiction is overwhelmingly digital in both publication and dissemination; it has never been easier to access this subculture of writers and writing. However, fan fiction in print has likewise never been so accessible, as a slew of recent