“Just joined mugclub”: Fan Consumer Activism meets the Culture Wars buycott political consumption twitter Youtube harassment In June 2019, journalist Carlos Maza took to Twitter to complain about harassment by YouTube commentator Steven Crowder. Crowder h ...
Antifandom of CRT as Fannish Attachment to Whiteness whiteness fandom affect Beginning in 2021, “Critical Race Theory” became a buzzword in popular discourse, used to describe everything from lectures about civil rights history [1] to books by and about ...
Spinning Yarn with Borrowed Cotton music intellectual property fandom fan labor Curator's Note In January 2013, the internet erupted with consternation as FOX series Glee released a cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s 1992 song “ Baby Got Back ” that exactly co ...
I find the wide difference between your reading of this trailer and mine really fascinating. I found myself horrified that the powerful Queen Elsa was not the Christian Grey analogue but instead was positioned as the impressionable young girl role. It ...
First, this gives me several more texts I need to examine in my catalogue of fans and representation. But second, I'm struck by how much background knowledge is needed to understand this vid. Teaching fanvids, I often find students are not steeped in ...
This is such an interesting analysis of men doing women's work and getting more credit for it--as, indeed, we see when men in traditionally female occupations (nursing, say) are paid more than women even as those occupations overall are generally pai ...
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