Those of you who were at the WisCon 34 Class 201 panel might remember me talking about my experience of entering higher education. I said that whenever I thought about my experiences as someone without middle-class* economic and cultural capital, and the education I have had that has allowed me to pursue the life I wanted to live as a professional ( Read more... )

RaceFail continues unabated. rydra_wong has the details as ever hereI'm working on my dissertation prospectus, which for me means that I'm very immersed in questions of race and how they relate to science fiction, to gender and sexuality, to the future. I feel like adding another half a cent to the race debate may not be that useful to anyone; it's all being ( Read more... )

I'm excited to say that the first issue of the new open-access, peer reviewed journal for fan studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, is now online.

Issue here; press release hereThis issue includes (to pick out the ones that are most exciting to me personally) academic articles on disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters as a "marginalized ( Read more... )

I just got a message from counteragent saying that she, laurashapiro and cesperanza want to show "The Future Stops Here" at Vividcon in their panel on "vids that push the envelope"!! I am very, very excited, I only wish I were going to be there ( Read more... )

This essay by Andrea Smith strikes me as seriously worth reading, sharing, and remembering.

Look how much I am posting! Four times in two days! When will this craziness end? Um, probably soon...

Isn't this exciting?

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is a Gold Open Access international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson.( Read more... )

Monday is the deadline for proposals for the conference I'm organizing. I would love it if some of the fabulous grad student types on my flist would submit! For those of you not already here, doesn't a trip to sunny LA in March sound alluring?

Please pass the details on to anyone you think might be interested.

( Getting Obsessive )

Graduate student friends: please think about submitting a paper for this and/or pass it on to people you think might be interested in submitting (and also, please attend). I really think it will be very intellectually stimulating, and very fun.

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Getting Obsessive: Culture and ExcessAn Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium, March 28 and ( Read more... )

Kristina Busse has posted a great blog post on the gendered exclusions going on in media studies and fan studies, in response to the Media in Transition 5 conference. I wish I could have been at the conference ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )