v-day
Valentine's Day has never sat well with me. I'm more ambivalent about it nowadays (the burning hatred has faded since my naive and rebellious teenage years), but for me, February 14th has always been about considering V-Day.
I remember the first year that rageprufrock did 14valentines and how it was a revelation for me. I don't know that I'd fully formulated what my personal relationship to fandom was at the time, but I think that year was when it really dawned on me that fandom could be a place where issues that were deeply personal and important to me -- sexual violence and violence against women -- could be discussed; that fanfiction and fanworks could be a medium to explore these issues; and that fandom could be a place for catharsis and education and discourse.
This entry was originally posted at http://unfinishedidea.dreamwidth.org/140367.html.
I remember the first year that rageprufrock did 14valentines and how it was a revelation for me. I don't know that I'd fully formulated what my personal relationship to fandom was at the time, but I think that year was when it really dawned on me that fandom could be a place where issues that were deeply personal and important to me -- sexual violence and violence against women -- could be discussed; that fanfiction and fanworks could be a medium to explore these issues; and that fandom could be a place for catharsis and education and discourse.
This entry was originally posted at http://unfinishedidea.dreamwidth.org/140367.html.