Fans of color, fandoms of color

Kosnik, Abigail De; Carrington, André M.

doi:10.3983/twc.2019.1783

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“…Future iterations of courses centering diverse youth's fandom interests ought to make space to interrogate affective divisions in the class, particularly those relating to gender and race. Though there has been a historical evasion of race and its contribution to intersectional experiences of fans in the field of fandom studies (De Kosnik & Carrington, 2019), there is growing scholarship examining sociopolitical divisions in affect among diverse fan populations (Hornsby, 2020; Johnson, 2019; Miller, 2020; Thomas, 2019) that could be useful as tools for meta reflection on divisions around taste and engagement in text-centered learning communities.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love

Jones

Storm

2022

Journal of Literacy Research

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Building on youth literacies in formal learning spaces is a promising direction for asset-based literacy learning designs. However, in response to ways that academic spaces can deaden passionate literacy study, it is important to attend to the resulting affective flows of such practices. This study traces how affect was sustained and dampened in a high school English classroom that intentionally brought together academic and fandom practices. We listened to how affective encounters with the popular text Grey's Anatomy unfolded across the class, with a particular focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) focal students’ experiences. We found derision and dismissal of certain texts and experiences by peers (undergirded by dominant narratives about fandom and literary taste) dampened affective resonance. All the same, collective intensities were sustained through respectful discourse between fans and potential fans as well as BIPOC women's fugitive literacy practices resisting dampening practices of White students.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love

Jones

Storm

2022

Journal of Literacy Research

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“…Online fan spaces are predictably feminized, queer, and White (Hannell, 2020;Hole et al, 2016;Kosnik & Carrington, 2019;Stanfill, 2018). Llewellyn (2022) argues that wlw (women loving women) fandoms can function as heterotopias, embodying Foucault's (2005) concept of a world within a world that both mirrors and contradicts the mainstream.…”

Section: Authenticity Gossip Fandom and Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory

Eadon

2024

Social Media + Society

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Rumors about Taylor Swift’s sexuality have persisted since the early days of her career. They have coalesced into an online subculture known as “Gaylor.” Gaylor is a novel kind of conspiracy theory known as a “Closeting Conspiracy Theory” (CCT). CCTs involve speculating about a public figure’s sexuality, gathering pertinent evidence, and producing fan knowledges, often informally, on social media. Like shipping and slash fiction (which they often involve) CCTs are largely feminized. Through a qualitative content analysis of 200 TikTok videos, this article situates Gaylor as a CCT that has developed into a kind of knowledge culture. Analyzing this knowledge culture using Emily Coccia’s notion of too-close reading and José Muñoz’s queer utopianism reveals specialized practices of knowledge production, including informal boundary work. As Gaylors get “too close” to Swift’s star text, triangulating lyrics and music videos with images and videos from Swift’s life, they produce folk literary criticism. Muñoz’s queer utopianism saturates Gaylor discourses, with many Gaylors engaging in a specific type of conspiracy-inflected queer utopianism: the doomsday coming-out. The doomsday coming-out pushes the date of the Swift’s purported coming out back further and further after each anticipated album or music video release, not unlike the date of the apocalypse in a doomsday cult. Ultimately, the function of producing CCT knowledge in the Gaylor community is propelled forward by imagining queer futures, reflecting on personal identity, building community, and pushing back against heterosexist consensus.

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“…By engaging in collective fan-based activities (e.g., close reading, creating fan texts, cosplaying), fans develop shared modes of communication and participation that signal ingroup knowledge and membership. Although these activities can foster community and create a sense of belonging for individuals, they can also be exclusionary, often for members of historically excluded communities (De Kosnik & carrington, 2019). In response, fans may work together to subvert these effects.…”

Section: Fans And/as Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media

Riddick

2022

MaC

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This article explores how music fans used social media to increase a social movement’s public support. Although initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the movement eventually gained widespread support and is motivating communities to engage in broader cultural conversations. The movement’s success, this article argues, is largely owed to social media’s networked communication affordances and how they facilitate fan-based citizenship and citizen journalism. Through a rhetorical analysis of social media communication related to the movement, this article examines how online fan-based citizen journalism can draw together seemingly disconnected ideologies and audiences to diversify and bolster social movements’ support.

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Fans of color, fandoms of color

Abstract: Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019).

Cited by 10 publications

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Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love

Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love

“You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory

Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media

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