This theme gathers reflections emerging from the 2025 Console-ing Passions Conference, where “reproduction” served as both a critical lens and a provocation—spanning questions of agency, authorship, technology, lineage, and value-creation across contemporary media. From remakes and reboots to AI-driven forms of mediation and labor, contributors consider how reproduction shapes the politics and aesthetics of media today. The posts in this cluster offer four situated responses informed by the conference, yet the theme extends beyond these contributors and welcomes a broader set of voices engaging with Console-ing Passions’ ongoing feminist commitments to media, culture, and identity. (Read more here)