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Tag Archives: fandom
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: PickMe POC
When I used to be on Tumblr, I’d get a lot of messages and reblogs from people who made it a point to let other people know that I didn’t speak for all POC. I was never arguing that I … Continue reading
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged fandom, fandom racism, intercommunity issues, PickMe POC
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Queer Baiting, Coding, Reading, and Representation: A Pint-Sized Primer
This is a pint-sized primer about the differences between queer representation, queer coding, queer reading, and queer baiting because I wanted to have something small to keep around and kind of… wave it at folks that want an easy way … Continue reading
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Introduction
The most disrespected woman in America, is the black woman. The most un-protected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the black woman. – Malcolm X, from a speech he gave May 5, … Continue reading
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged black women, fandom, misogynoir, Misogynoir Mini Series
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Fleeting Frustrations # 2: Fan Studies, Like Fandom, Isn’t the Best About Race
I am grateful to fan studies scholars for giving me a name for what I’d been doing before I ever knew that fan studies was a thing. I love fan studies as an academic discipline and I wish that it … Continue reading
Posted in Rants
Tagged fan studies, fandom, Fleeting Frustrations, intersectional feminism, racism in fandom
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Sacrifice, Heroics, and Dead Characters of Color
This post contains spoilers for Orange is the New Black season 4, Wynonna Earp season 3, Elementary season 6, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5, and a bunch of other stuff that’s been off the air or out of theaters for … Continue reading
Posted in TV Recaps/Reviews
Tagged fandom, fandom racism, Queer representation, race and representation, representation, Wynonna Earp
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[Patreon Preview] Stitch Talks Tropes
I’ve been sitting on this for a couple of weeks as I planned, and now I think I’m ready to share a preview of something I’ve been working on and planning for almost all of June: Stitch Talks Tropes (Or, possibly, Talking … Continue reading
[Image Post] “Strong Black Women”
Original Post: Nyota Uhura: One More Black Female Character Fandom Wants To Be Strong and Single Forever White Feminism (as an institution) thinks that championing Black women as too strong and too independent to ever “need” a man in their lives … Continue reading
Headcanons only go so far when it comes to representation
In my head, my version of Harvey Dent will always be associated with three things: his Blackness (he’s biracial), his bisexuality (he was totally in love with Bruce Wayne), and how he deals with/manages his mental health issues (which are … Continue reading
Women of Color in Marvel Live Action Properties – Elektra Natchios
Women of Color in Marvel Live Action Properties is an essay series that will look closely at the portrayals of female characters of color by actresses of color in Marvel’s various franchises. I was inspired by the fact that a … Continue reading
Let Black People Feel Things in Fandom 2018
In 2016, I made a list of things that I wanted to see fandom leave behind as we moved into the next year. Fandom left absolutely NONE of those things behind in 2017. I’m not going to talk about the … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom
Tagged antiblackness, fandom, fandom racism, Let Black People Feel Things In Fandom 2018
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[Flashback Friday] Dear Fandom, It’s Always About Race
I originally wrote this post over a year ago, back in May 2016. It was one of those period where I was seeing racism in fandom surge to a high level (this was after the meta of doom a certain … Continue reading
Posted in #FlashbackFriday, Fandom
Tagged antiblackness, fandom, fandom culture, fandom racism, shipping
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“Fandom is supposed to be fun.”
Some variation on the phrase “fandom is supposed to be fun” gets spouted like clockwork every single time that people of color in fandom try to talk about the way that fan spaces – predominantly slash fandom spaces – are … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom, Rants
Tagged antiblackness, fandom, fandom culture, fandom racism
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What It’s Like Being Fandom Critical While Black
If we adopted Scientologist terms in fandom I’d probably be deemed as a negative influence or suppressive person because of the way I talk about the things I’ve seen and experienced in fandom spaces. I’ve had my opinions invalidated, my … Continue reading
[Book Review] Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz
I just finished reading “Gena/Finn” by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson. It is good. So good. I definitely cried a little while reading it. I think that it’s definitely the BEST fiction book on fandom that I’ve ever read and … Continue reading