intersectionality

Racial dynamics of online femslash fandoms

For further reading about femslash (and especially for an intersectional reading about it), I highly recommend Rukmini Pande’s and Swati Moitra’s work. We seek to locate the ways in which such queer fans grapple with critiques of misogyny and homophobia

The racial dynamics within Swan Queen fandom and the fault lines therein, as a case study, serve to highlight this contradiction between inclusion and everyday racial erasure that is part and parcel of fannish spaces. Certain fan practices, as we