Did you know you can even find recs in scholarship? Well, maybe not exactly, but they do mention examples of the practices they are talking about and when that practice is “dealing with race in a way the source material
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
On femslash’s representation in scholarship about fandom
“Somewhere in the ever flowing tide of social media, a fan of femslash (female-female couples) tweeted about feeling ignored and erased by the field of fan studies. Fans have had a complicated, ambivalent, often conflicted relationship to the academic study