Interviews will be less than 60 minutes and can be via Zoom or in person (Vancouver, London ON, Seoul, or Busan). If you’d like to share your experiences, I’d love to hear from you! 💜 Feel free to DM me here if you have any questions.
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My fellow queer #Kpop girl group/female artist fans!! I’m doing my PhD at Western University and I’m looking to interview fans (18+) about your experiences online & in fandom! I’m especially interested in how queer fans connect, create, and build community across platforms.
What does it take to be a varsity esports athlete in Canada? "Welcome to Saints Gaming," my paper on student-athletes' roles in shaping the institutions of Canada's first varsity esports program, is now published in Games and Culture!
Read the full paper here doi.org/10.1177/1555...
🇨🇦 #GameStudies
New article in International Journal of Cultural Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Kim, D. O. (Donna), & Wu, F. (2025). Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures.
#FanStudies
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OTW Recruitment
Are you interested in social media and community outreach? Do you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? Do you want to create videos and connect with fellow fans on TikTok? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Learn more at: otw-news.org/mw63d42d
We argue for examining how media technologies and transnational cultural flows across diverse Asian contexts shape, circulate and contest queernesses and Asian-nesses, offering rich ground for epistemological and methodological innovation❤️
can’t believe today was the last day of @methodsmcr.bsky.social — had such a great time in the digital methods course and feel so lucky to have met so many brilliant emerging and established scholars. already looking forward to staying in touch as we all head off in all our different directions 💕
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Beginning this fall, Yonsei University (2nd highest-ranked school in Korea) Graduate School will waive tuition for all international students
CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2026-confere...
New article in Celebrity Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Ibrahim, K. (2025). Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila. Celebrity Studies, 1–7.
#FanStudies
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Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.
Words matter here.
He was MURDERED.
it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.
Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
Call For Participants: Eurovision and International Politics I'm looking for Eurovision fans to participate in an online focus group about how fans think about and interact with the politics of the Contest. See other images for further info or contact zoe.jay@helsinki.fi To register, go to https://tinyurl/com/eurovisionaries-study or scan the QR code in bottom right corner of this image.
Who can participate? All fans aged 18 and older are welcome. If you’re a Eurovision fan and are interested in discussing Eurovision and politics, I’d like to hear from you! What will taking part involve? Participating in a focus groups with 6-8 Eurovision fans. The focus groups will be conducted online in English, and last around 90 minutes. The focus groups will be held in June and July. I will ask you and the group questions about your views on whether and how the Contest relates to international politics, and on how you engage with these politics as a fan. You don’t need to have a particular opinion about whether the contest is political or not - only an interest in talking about Eurovision and politics as you understand it.
Further Information If you have any questions about this study, you can contact Dr Zoë Jay: zoe.jay@helsinki.fi You can also read more about the research on the Eurovisionaries website: www.eurovisionaries.com Register: If you're interested in taking part in this study, you can register at https://tinyurl/com/eurovisionaries-study or by scanning the QR code in the bottom right corner.
🌟call for research participants🌟
i'm looking for people who are (or have been) fans of #eurovision to join an online focus group about how fans think about & interact with the politics of the contest.
more details on the study & how to join below. please sign up & share with your eurofan pals!
(1) I'm delighted that my article, "'If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?' Networked Transphobia in Lesbian Popular Culture Spaces" is out in Popular Communication! doi.org/10.1080/1540... There are 50 free e-copies available at this link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT3JP...
Exciting new research on hate raids, from my time with the Digital Democracies Institute, has just been published. Congrats to the team! @pipsipirate.bsky.social , Maria Sommers, @albertolusoli.bsky.social, and @whkchun.bsky.social 🎉
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
I'm someone. thegeekiary.com/on-conclave-... #fanstudies #newpope
Promotional material for Irresistible urge to fall for your enemy by Brigitte Knightly, which is the published title of what was once a popular Harry Potter fan fiction featuring a romance between Hermione and Draco. Promotional material gives a breakdown of the “Dramoine ship” its online popularity making the books origins not only clear but a selling point of the book. “WHAT IS DRAMIONE? + DRAMIONE * IS THE PAIRING OF * DRACO RACO & HERMONR GRANGER FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES. For those who may not know, Draco was one of the antagonists and Hermione was one of the three main characters of the series. Like with any fandom, people wonder, "What if these two characters got together?" And since Draco and Hermione are complete opposites, and because everyone loves a good enemies-to-lovers story, naturally, this was a fan-favorite pairing. The emergence of Dramione skyrocketed within the fanfiction community, which led to several published adaptions, including the forthcoming Alchemised by SenLinYu, adapted from Manacled, setting us up to break out Brigitte Knightley at just the right time. DRAMIONE ONLINE #Dramione 3.5 BILLION VIEWS #DramioneFanFiction 925.6 VIEWON VIEWS #DramioneFanFic 173.2 MILLION VIEWS #Dramione FanFicR ecs 213.4 MENON BRIGITTE KNIGHTLEY + THE ™ IRRESISTIBLE URGE To FALL FOR YOUR ENEMY Manacled is the most popular Dramione fanfic #Manacled 692 MENON VIEWS #ManacledTikTok #Manacled Wattpad 14 MILLION VIEWS MILLION 16.3 VEWS #Mana cled Edit MILLION 23.4 NEWS OTHER Reddit r/Dramione 59k MEMBERS Tumbir #Dramione 39 k FOLLOWING On fanfic sites 30k WORKS Instagram #Dramione 569k POSTS ON SALE JULY 8, 2025 ACE HC - 9780596819456 - 530.00”
This is what the commodification of fandom looks like.
Traditional publishing is exploiting fandom and fans. Using them to promote and pay for the art they’ve already read for free. Setting fanfic writer up for possible lawsuits and forever binding them and their the work to a bigot. #Romancelandia
Today is Karl Marx's birthday.
All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.
For the wonderful folks at @ellipsus.com, I wrote a guest post about fic and generative AI!
As people yank archives for LLMs or "finish" others' work with these tools, we're increasingly seeing AI used to create fic, too. But if you outsource the act of being a fan to AI, what does that leave you?
Finished reading @sachajudd.com's journey through RPF history and want more RPF commentary and analysis? WELL 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
I am so happy that @michellehsho.bsky.social will be one of our keynotes 😄 They are an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and will talk about their new book "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies" 🏳️⚧️🏙️🌸➡️ ticket here: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
And SSHRC!
Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International Students NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 - More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the University's lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administration's attacks. Some faculty have moved their classes to in-person locations that have been declared sanctuary spaces, where international students are assured that building administrators will do everything in their power to refuse to cooperate with ICE agents. Other faculty have moved their classes online so that students can attend from a safe location of their choosing.
This is how you do it.
"Gaylor points to the possibility of “queering” even the most mainstream popular culture. [...] Under this rubric, Swift herself is not so much an object of a conspiracy as the conspiracy is an object of communal world-building for queer users and their allies." #taylorswift #fandom #academia
NEW: Columbia expelled & fired the president of its student workers’ union today, a day before contract negotiations were set to begin, per UAW
The union is calling it “part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out…against the war on Gaza”
We all have intrinsic value. Governments and the billionaire class want to tie it to economic productivity as a means of propping up end stage capitalism.
You don’t have to work to have value. You aren’t “less than” if you can’t work.
