Journal of Fandom Studies 14.2 is out now! Articles include: Queerplatonic relationships, canon and queerbaiting: Your ship is canonically queer, by Dean Leetal doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.2 is out now! Articles include: Theatre fans and theatre buildings; or ‘this beloved theatre of ours’, by Kirsty Sedgman doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.2 is out now! Articles include: Material encounters with Rory Gallagher: The affective power of music keepsakes, by Lauren Alex O’Hagan doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.2 is out now! Articles include: Towards a global history of fandom: A network analysis of science fiction fans, 1926–47, by Eric Vero doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.2 is out now! Articles include: Diving into the depths: Exploring interpersonal relationships in mermaid fanfiction, by Martine Mussies doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship, Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (2024) Reviewer: Angie Fazekas doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Book Reviews include: How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games, Bo Ruberg (2025) Reviewer: Yvonne Gonzales doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

CFP: Star Wars at 50: Forces, Forms, Legacies Scholarly conference, Durham University, May 7, 2027 Presentations sought on any Star Wars media. Suggestions for panels, roundtables, and more unconventional conference formats are most welcome. CFP link: starwarsat50.webspace.durham.ac.uk

Fandom is culture, and we're here to talk about it. We've got writers discussing fanfic and The Pitt, how fans in Kenya view reading and writing fic in English vs. Kiswahili, and a discussion of the ethics of being in Harry Potter fandom. One longread a week. Fannish editors. Pseuds not required.

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Articles include: The scapegoating of the Angry Video Game Nerd, by Matt Foy doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Articles include: ‘OG D&D’: Analysing aspects of fandom cultural capital in contentious Dungeons & Dragons social media, by Steven Dashiell doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Articles include: ‘She who must not be named’: Harry Potter fans’ identity change amid the author’s transphobia, by Tierra James, Jacob Church, Brianna Turgeon, Leonela Martinez Ramirez, Ariel Vicars, Alicia Carter doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

JFS 14.1 is out now! Articles include: Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs present: Exploring eudaimonia, queer readings, character identification and the sexual self-concept among LGBTQ+ Harry Potter and Marauders fans, by Leah Dajches, Heather Gahler doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Articles include: Quantifying passion from casual observer to devoted fan: Introducing the fanship scale, by Caleb George Hubbard doi.org/10.1386/jfs_... intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Book Reviews include: Disability and Fandom, Katherine Anderson Howell (2025) Reviewer: Lauren Rouse doi.org/10.1386/jfs_... intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline, Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost and Jessica Balanzategui (eds) (2022) Reviewer: Lauren Nicole Balser doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

*The Pitt* Fans Aren't Happy With Journalists. We Need Real Etiquette When Reporting on Fandom www.teenvogue.com/story/journa...

Ask me for contact info for a CNN reporter seeking experts about The Pitt fandom. If so, please talk to them about the assumptions they're starting off with. A small sample: "Are they watching the series "incorrectly"...? How rare is it for fans to react this way to a show they love so fiercely?"

See the first close-up photos of the moon from NASA's Artemis II mission:

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

I have to admit, this made me tear up a bit. I'm a sentimental old fool.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’ www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-f... Please send a 500–700-word abstract and a 100–200 word biography in one document to [email protected] by 13 April 2026. Final articles will be 6,000- 9,000 words.

Yes, the ebook version is available elsewhere including the @subpress.bsky.social website: subterraneanpress.com/constituent-...

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Craftivism: A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals rb.gy/uh5a60

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study By Hengrui Luo doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts By Indira Neill Hoch doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki By Justin Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020) By Sarah Breyfogle doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024) By Maria K. Alberto doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) By Rebecca Williams doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022) By Deniz Yilmaz doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

New conspiracy theory just dropped: What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

SIG members, don't forget that our event with @alfredmartin.bsky.social is a week from today. Al will be talking about his new book, FANDOM FOR US, BY US. Please register here to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/fandomforus

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.

Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now with Book Reviews: Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_... Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...