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I’m a writer in my late 20s, trying to figure out love, life, and how to get the most out of my MA in Literature. I love research and, no joke, analyzing the heck out of every single piece of media I consume – so expect a lot of that here.
I’ve got an an opinion on basically everything. If you like strong opinions, candid talk about mental/physical health and trauma, and the occasional ode to fictional characters, then you’ll probably love me.
And if you don’t… oh well!
This blog focuses on analysis of nerdy media, book reviews, and lots of commentary about race in fandom and the source media that spawns our favorite fandoms.
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Stitch Talks Ish: Episode 4 – Where Stitch Processes
Episode Notes: Did you catch the previous episode yet? That was an hour long review of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7! And, unlike this episode, it has a transcript! There’s a chance that I mispronounce Sik-K’s name when I … Continue reading
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Tagged antiblackness, K-Pop, fandom antiblackness, Korean hip hop
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April Content Calendar
Support Links: Website: https://stitchmediamix.com/blog/ Ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/A477I4N CashApp: $StitchMM PayPal: http://paypal.me/ZinaH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StitchMediaMix/ Friends, March was a lot. April is already set up to be even more. At this point, everyone I know is trying to figure out how they’re going to handle the COVID-19 … Continue reading
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Migratory Slash Fandom’s Focus
Note: The section on RPF and whtiewashing deals pretty plainly with real person fan fiction – where a real celebrity is treated like a character in fan works – but from the POV of “stop whitewashing them” rather than a … Continue reading
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged BTS, fandom racism, RPF, shipping culture, slash fandom, whitewashing
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What Shipping Says About Fandom Antiblackness
At the end of the day, I want Black characters to be respected in fandom and in their (canon OR fanon) ships and they aren’t. Continue reading
Assigning Authenticity For Clout
If you listened to my review of BTS’s new album Map of the Soul: 7, you might have clocked that I’m really fucking feral for BTS’ trio of rappers – RM, Suga, and J-hope. I mention it a bunch of … Continue reading
Problematic Fave: Gravitation
Gravitation was one of my early queer “firsts” and it falls into the same vein as many of the pieces of media I worshiped as a baby queer. Like Queer as Folk and Interview with the Vampire, Gravitation was an … Continue reading
Dealing With What Docile Doesn’t
Docile is a book that calls back to the history of slavery in the United States – the enslavement of Black people – and then hangs up the phone without so much as a timid “hello”. Its lack of true engagement with the still-painful, and still incredibly relevant past of slavery in the United States shows in how reviewers are responding to it as “yet another” gushy and empowering dark-fic in fandom. Continue reading
March Content Calendar
I’m putting things together for March and this is what my schedule currently looks like! Three of the things are catch-ups (2 for my site and 1 for Patreon) but everything else is fresh content that is NOT carried over … Continue reading
Quick Coverage: All Eyez On YunB Proving Why East Asian Appreciation and Appropriation of Blackness Are Two Sides of the Same Antiblack Coin
I know that not a single one of y’all wanted to know that there’s going to be a South Korean musical version of Tupac’s life called All Eyez on Me performed by a cast that, as far I can tell, … Continue reading
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Tagged antiblackness, cultural appropriation, hip hop, historical appropriation, Quick Coverage
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Stitch Talks Ish: Episode 3 – Stitch Talks Map of the Soul: 7
ON BUZZSPROUT Episode Notes Last episode, I talked about the wy white women in the Rey/Kylo fandom were going all out to portray John Boyega as a misogynistic monster for an Instagram comment milder (and far less misogynistic) than their … Continue reading
Two Sides of Being A Black K-Pop Fan: Incredible Rage
Jump into Indescribable Joy if you’re not ready for the rage: On February 11, 2020 twitter user @revegina uploaded a ninety-two second video set to SEVENTEEN’s만세(MANSAE) that highlighted several supremely antiblack moments in the relatively recent history of Korean pop … Continue reading
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Two Sides of Being a Black K-Pop Fan: Indescribable Joy
Part One, Incredible Rage [Incoming] The thing is that being in this fandom is not all white-knuckled rage at antiblackness… I promise. Korean pop music and hip-hop spark genuine joy in me.
Authenticity Essay #2 – Girls (Not) On Top
If you’re a woman in hip hop that’s surrounded by dudes in Hood Cosplay telling you that you have to be more like them to be taken seriously –
What will you reach for in your quest to be authentic? Continue reading
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Tagged hip hop, K-Pop, misogyny, Unpretty Rapstar
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Stitch Talks Monsta X’s #AllAboutLove
So what’s your favorite song on All About Luv? Continue reading
Featuring… Blasian Celebs
Last February, the closest I got to a Black History Month post was my review of Horror Noire on Shudder. This year, I’m aiming a little closer to what I’m writing about on the regular, by focusing on Black and … Continue reading
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