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I've been thinking about this post for months, and there's no easy way to say it. It's born out of a lot of thinky thoughts on women, fandom, rape culture, and basically all the things I've been posting about lately.

In January, I made this post about gay subtext, and I was overwhelmed at the response it had. Then I made another post about ( Read more... )

Hello to everyone coming over from metafandom!

I am very pleased at the outpouring of response to my post about gay subtext and heteronormativity.

And the thing is, you can't talk about hating the heteronormative tropes of mainstream media without facing up to the fact that having this conversation within the context of slash fandom is, well, profoundly ( Read more... )

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Best commentary on #amazonfail yet:

Why does this matter anyway? Isn't it just entertainment?

Yes, but entertainment is our common cultural currency. It's where we see ourselves reflected, and it's one of the primary ways we learn about people who are different from us.

When we are reduced to our sexuality, we are seen as other - something less ( Read more... )

So, LJ just told me that this entry is a finalist for their 10 year anthology.

In recent years *sighs fondly* LJ and I have had our differences, but lately they've done a lot of things right, and right now they are spotlighting verb_noire, which makes me out and out love them again, so it is with great affection that I make this post ( Read more... )