The editorial reflects on the directions the journal intends to take. To us, Fanhackers, one sentence inmediately seems relevant. (…) we continue to resist the tendency within fan studies’ spaces, both casual and academic, to speak about fandom as if
New Transformative Works and Culture issue is out!
The new issue of the OTW’s fandom studies journal is out! Look into it and read one of the many interesting texts. I started out with this paper on Censorship and Chinese slash fans. It presents an image of Chinese
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