Okay, so I've been commenting all over the latest incarnation of Queer Female Space Discussion in fandom. Highlights include kalpurna here, mskatej here, and cryptoxin here and here, as well as the excellent flocked post by cathexysI've posted a fully academicized paper on the subject already, flocked (because I always flock my academic work when I post it); but I'd like to raise ( Read more... )

I declared that my Jackie Kay post was a sidetrack from a larger point, but I never got around to saying what the larger point actually was. This is it, and it's an exhortation to non-Americans -- in particular, to non-American, Western white folk like me -- not to disregard online (and offline) discussions of race and racism because they seem US- ( Read more... )

Holy crap, LJ messes me around and won't let me read my flist for a day and a half and there's a huge race debate in HP, 47 metafandomed posts (most navigable by starting here with witchqueen's account of her attempt to politely call an HP kink community on their shit) and I haven't got a hope of catching up. And I've been trying to read intellectual books ( Read more... )

( The long version of yesterday's reaction post... Spoilers like crazy )

I am here, but I haven't been feeling much like posting. I'm looking after lunchmaker's dog, rereading the HP books, sorting out my new apartment and generally feeling extremely lazy ( Read more... )

There's a very interesting conversation between Robin Anne Reid and Sean Griffin up at Henry Jenkins's blog here and here and mirrored on LJ at fandebate here, part of a summer project discussing gender hierarchies in fan studies. I commented in response to some discussions about essentialism, and ended up coming up with a mini-theory about fandom and ( Read more... )

I've spent a great deal of time today reading about LiveJournal's mass banning, in the wake of campaigning from a Christian Right anti-paedophile group. Accounts that listed "incest" and similar terms in their userinfo were reported to LiveJournal Abuse, and LJ suspended their accounts regardless of the content of the sites. Some paedophile and man ( Read more... )

I have had many LJ posts brewing at the back of my head for some months: posts about fannish events, posts reflecting on what has changed for me personally and intellectually in the last year, posts about music and TV and sex and race and class and all that good stuff. I didn’t write any of them up, because I had too many other things to write. But ( 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... )