Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

Oh look, another “All fans of (insert franchise) are dudes” clickbait article has dropped, which means it’s time to give away a couple of copies of my book “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry.” Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!

For the crowd who STILL thinks activism cannot be absurd if it is to be effective, may I remind you that ACT UP—perhaps the most effective activist group in US history not just on AIDS but on medicine in general—once covered Sen. Jesse Helms’s house with with a giant condom

Love that we have somehow reclaimed cartoon frogs???????

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Don't forget to check out today's brand new episode of #HoFCast all about Monty Python! Mini-trailer below, but you can find this week's episode (as well as our entire archive) ad-free on the podcast app of your choice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9e...

Just to say, I thought it was fantastic. Genuinely fantastic. Terrific acting all around & the set is genius. I’m so so so glad I saw it.

What can I say? Made for me! Take my money! Gen X represent!

Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle #AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The #OTW is Recruiting! otw-news.org/w8thejrv

I had a delightful conversation with the author of this. What I didn’t realize is that this sort of bot-making can be an art: there are better and worse ones, as in fic or art.

I had a great conversation with Precious Fondren for this article - check it out! typesetbrooklyn.com/articles/the...

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk #BOTD

#TheSummerWar by @naominovik.bsky.social ( #NewYorkTimesBestsellingAuthor; #Standalone) A heartfelt story about a young witch who accidentally curses her brother to live without love and must find a way to undo the damage before it’s too late. (2/5)

Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI

Wow - banner day for fan studies really; I forgot that the latest TWC also just dropped. Issue 46!!! Few academic journals have ever run so consistently and well - and on time! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight? Buddy, I ain't got that kinda time. Pick one.

Transformative work of the day, 18th c edition!

New Book on Open Access and Publishing: mailchi.mp/umich/now-av...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading! newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/n...

Transformative work of the day, mandatory repost edition

Not weird, plus we've already seen the effects of people outsourcing their thinking to others. "AI" doesn't even think.

Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans. It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free. This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)

Hot off the presses - Theatre Fandom, edited by me, @matt-hills.bsky.social & @kirstysedgman.bsky.social and featuring a collection of terrific essays. U Iowa Press 2025! (The two sides of my career have finally connected! \o/ Life makes sense now! :D)

The Symposium section of #TWC44 begins with @fcoppa.bsky.social essay which imagines how fan studies theory could be less centered on whiteness and more attentive to the lived experiences of Black female fans, especially in vidding communities. Read it today:

"Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding" by @fcoppa.bsky.social comes in at #7 on the #TWCHits list with a whopping 56K views! This Article was published in our first ever volume, #TWC01, back in 2008! Read it here:

@fcoppa.bsky.social wake up, the corporate accounts have discovered vidding.

A cheery, respectful article about A Wonderful Time of Year, by @elizabethminkel.bsky.social www.atlasobscura.com/articles/col...

This is my school (Brooklyn College, CUNY). In the classroom we can feel this "propelling" action every semester. It's incredible how the value CUNY colleges provide the state and the nation seems invisible to those with the power to maintain and grease those propellers.

Sight and Sound magazine is now on Bluesky! We will be announcing the results of our 2024 Films of the Year poll here, this Friday

We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Fans of Color Prize Winner is Osarugue Otebele! Her article, “The (anti)fan is black: Consumption, resistance, and black K-pop fan vigil labor,” will be published in our upcoming special issue "Centering Blackness in Fan Studies" on December 15th!

For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new

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so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex

act.boldprogressives.org/survey/Heroe... This one is THIS SUNDAY, Sept 8, 2024!

geeks & nerds for HARRIS HOSTED BY LYNDA CARTER with Fan Activist Sabrina Cartan TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 8 PM ET (5 PM PT) RSVP for the free livestream at Geeks.ForHarris.org

thinking about forgotten computer sounds we no longer hear: • the grinding noise of a defragmenting hard drive • the BZWOMM of the monitor degauss button • the squeal of an ejecting floppy drive • the crackle of static as you switch off a CRT monitor • the horrifying shriek of a dot matrix printer

It me: How young is too young for anti-aging? The “Sephora Kids” debate we need to have www.reckon.news/honey/2024/0... I note that *social media does not have to be like this!*

Coming soon to NYC www.eventbrite.com/e/entertaini...

If I were a New York Times education reporter, I’d cover this, really looking at the consequences for students in New York City.

Thanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. Cory Doctorow's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives.

SO honored that my book Vidding: A History is a finalist for the ACLS's Open Access Book Prize!! Thanks to UMichican Press who're the BEST & most supportive editors/publishers. Thanks also to Muhlenberg College for supporting my work & to my student (now alumni) team and to ALL THE VIDDERS. <3 <3

Join us for a free Zoom event, the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp," Ann Bannon, in conversation with the maven of erotic sf/fantasy, Cecilia Tan! The University of Illinois rare books library is bringing us together for a one-of-a-kind discussion!