revolution slash-style now?

[heyiya]

So I've been speaking up much more than has historically been my wont in fan meta discussions lately, thanks to princessofg's great reviews of the essays from Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet as well as the recent discussions of fandom and queer/feminist politics. I had a convergence moment in class the other day which made the

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[alchemia]

But if someone is trying to get LGBT Movement Street Cred, I agree that one deserves more credit for one evening spent mailing out flyers for the local LGBT center than for writing all the porn in the world.

there's some assumptions here I don't think are accurate in all cases.

1. not all slash/femslash/transfic/etc is porn.
2. one might not have a local lgbt centre to work with.
3. even if they did, a person may be held back by certain disabilities or otherlife situations, in being able to help where the local LGBT group happens to need volunteers.

Since many fliers are tossed in the trash as junk and never read, I think something online actually has more potential to be read over time- and to be read by those who might not otherwise have thought of GLBT issues or got on their mailing lists. They come to realise there are GLBT issues develop friendships with other queers they'd never have met (or met and were discosed to in reallife) in fandom through their interest in the book/move/show they original went looking for fanfic for.