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OTW Guests Bridget & Cath talk about their work on disability and fanfiction research. They also relate their fannish histories and what they love about fanfic. Read more at https://otw.news/post-bridget-61084

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This month's OTW guest, Jessica Leski, recreated the opening scene of her favorite show while in film school, and has since turned her attention to how music fandom has and hasn't changed over several generations of women: http://otw.news/guest-post-da319

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This month's OTW guest, Patrick Doyle, is doing research on LGBT youth on YouTube. He discusses what that means and also talks about the fandom things that have inspired him the most. Read more at http://goo.gl/Yej2wQ

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This month's guest post is from Hansi Oppenheimer, a documentarian, acafan, and Professional Fangrrl whose interests are women in fandom, diverse representation and the impact of a fan-run con. Read more at https://goo.gl/dTDhyN

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People cycle in and out of fandoms, and we lose a lot of institutional memory -— like people today not having any idea why older fans or older fics use disclaimers. Having the OTW as that institution that supports things like Fanlore, and that brings different fandoms into a space where they might interact, helps with that sort of thing...Just generally, fandom needs institutions -— we need a fanworks repository that’s not beholden to advertisers or individuals’ finances; we need an academic journal that is not beholden to the academic publishing industry; etc.

Mel Stanfill wrote about fan labor in 2014 and about femslash in 2017. Mel takes a look at fandom then & now https://goo.gl/qiUhYL

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“The coalescence of femslash as a metafandom unto itself may have paradoxically contributed to a bird's-eye view of its marginality. As we might glean from the primacy of slash as the unmarked term (denoting same-sex couples in general and male-male couples in particular), F/F remains underrepresented not only in scholarly research but also arguably in fandom overall (compared to M/M and also to het [heterosexual] and gen [nonsexual] fiction and art).

Femslash fans often frame their experience in this way, as was the case at the "Where's the F/F?" panel at the May 2015 WisCon feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin. The conversation took as a jumping-off point detailed statistics, compiled by destinationtoast, on fan fiction posted at Archive of Our Own.”

TWC issue No 24 on femslash fandom is out! Read about Grey's Anatomy Wynonna Earp, The 100, Orphan Black, Once Upon a Time, Kpop, Jpop & more! https://goo.gl/n59EMJ