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Transformative Works and Cultures
ISSN 1941-2258 · Organization for Transformative Works · 992 artikel di indeks
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The collective memory of 1970s–1980s feminist science fiction fandoms: A case in reflexivity and historiography for fan studies practices
This article proposes a reinterpretation of a classical corpus of North American literary science fiction published from 1974 to 1993 by emphasizing the role of memory activism. During the 1980s neoconservative backlash, feminist fans gave these fanzines a central role in their collective…
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Gorgeous meditation of selves: Reparative work among fans of Sailor Moon
We conceptualize the magical girl franchise Sailor Moon as a vehicle of healing or sharing love through interactions with selves and others. Following Eve Sedgwick's notion of reparative reading, we trace how this franchise of comics, animation, and related media and material forms has offered fans…
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"A sacrifice is made when the dark gift is shared": Queering narrative and fan techniques against purist reading practices
I connect and contextualize purist reading practices in contemporary queer anglophone fandoms, particularly in m/m slash fandoms, with anglophone eighteenth-century moral panic over women's novel reading. Using transhistorical methodologies and queer studies frameworks that draw from Sara Ahmed's…
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Tags on Archive of Our Own as genderfucked technology
Tagging is a central part of Archive of Our Own's culture and infrastructure; while fans' use of the tags for dialogic and affective purposes has been studied, there has not been inquiry into how fans use tags to invite their peers to hold more imaginative, queerer relationships to the bodies…
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The transformative use of shame in fan fiction practices: A Directioner case study
Shame is central to the experience of fandom, as especially seen with One Direction fans who once engaged with fan fiction. Within fandoms, real person fiction (RPF)—fictional stories created by fans of celebrities and public figures—is frequently deemed a more shameful behavior compared with fan…
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Spock's penis and the racial politics of feminist fantasy: Situating race at slash fan fiction's origins
This article examines the absence and presence of race in the history of slash fan fiction. Taking critiques of the whiteness of the genre and the field as my starting point, I seek to understand slash fan fiction as a formation in which race has never not been present. I do this by taking up the…
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Genre shock in transcultural fandom: English-language slash fans, danmei, and the morality policing of queer representation
Especially in transcultural fandoms, misunderstandings around interpretive norms and conventions can spark conflict. This article looks at misunderstandings between fan genres that deal with male/male relationships—English-language slash fandom, Chinese danmei fandom, and Chinese dangai (danmei…
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Bad authors and strained attachments to the Harry Potter franchise
In 2020, J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, began a series of actions (including publishing essays, participating in political activism, and issuing social media statements) that revealed her trans-exclusionary radical feminist politics. In response, some fans grappled with how to…
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Who is this diva? Affect, race, and transformative normalization in fan edits
Focusing on the overlap between the vampire and the diva in edits for the AMC adaptation of Interview with the Vampire (2022–), these fan works lend themselves to acts of transformative normalization, a method of containing affective moments of social rupture by directing characterizations toward…
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Matters arising in postapartheid South African fandom
South African fandom context largely revolves around soccer, revealing unique intersections of race, class, religion, and identity in shaping modes of belonging, consumption, and resistance. Drawing on available literature across sports, popular culture, and digital media, we highlight how South…
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Preservation, policy, and the Archive of Our Own: An open letter
AO3's governing documents, which include otherwise thorough policies on data privacy, copyright advocacy, and user-uploaded content, contain a glaring omission: Neither the Archive nor its parent group, the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), possess a publicly available digital…
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Fandom for us, by us: The pleasures and practices of Black audiences, by Alfred L. Martin Jr.
Alfred L. Martin Jr., Fandom for us, by us: The pleasures and practices of Black audiences. New York: NYU Press, 2025. Paperback $30.00 (200p) (ISBN: 9781479824922); e-book $30.00 (ISBN: 9781479824939).
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Clickbait, clout, and collapse: The life cycle of the antifan economy
Unlike the fan economy that monetizes affection and support for idols, notoriety can also generate substantial value within contemporary media industries. The concept of the antifan economy can be vital to describe media strategies that employ rage-baiting to cultivate antifan-like audiences…
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The Ke-able revolutionary specter: Ideological suturing and subjectivity production in Chinese young women's historical fan fiction of the French Revolution
Employing critical autoethnography as its research methodology, the article excavates the deep-seated logic underlying Chinese young women's indulgence in the French Revolution historical fan fiction circle within the digital age on platforms such as LOFTER and AO3. The study reveals that the…
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Render, remake, rebellion: A typology of fan film
I examine contemporary fan-produced films that plausibly situate themselves within a franchise's diegesis. Specifically, I center four contemporary Star Wars fan films that—through readings of audiovisual technique, diegetic placement, and community reception—surface a three-part typology of…
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A sea of green: Gang cosplay and affective belonging at NBA YoungBoy's MASA tour
This autoethnographic article introduces gang cosplay as a framework for understanding the widespread fan practice of wearing gang-coded colors at hip-hop concerts, focusing on lime green bandanas at NBA YoungBoy's 2025 Make America Slime Again tour. Drawing on affect theory, performance studies…
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"Every demented detail I could ask for has been rendered": On fan-made media and celebrating the affordances of the action figure
Existing scholarship surrounding both the modern action figure and the YouTube toy unboxing video has framed discussion around media consumption, fostering community among fans, and toys as vaunted paratextuality of an existing media property. Rather than focusing on the toy's franchise fidelity…
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Synthetic kayfabe: Generative AI, provenance, and authenticity work in wrestling fandom
Professional wrestling relies on negotiated authenticity, in which communities manage the boundaries between performance, documentation, and real encounters. Generative AI destabilizes these boundaries by making persona-consistent and archive-consistent media cheap to produce, increasing provenance…
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Nationalist and popular culture practices on social media: A digital ethnography of Chinese online fandom nationalists, by Chenyang Song
Chenyang Song, Nationalist and Popular Culture Practices on Social Media: A Digital Ethnography of Chinese Online Fandom Nationalists. transcript Verlag, 2025, paperback $55.00 (240pp) ISBN: 9783837679267.
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Harry Potter converts to Orthodoxy? Moral realignment in the Russian play The Repentance of Harry Potter
I examine the Russian Orthodox play The Repentance of Harry Potter, a transformative rewrite in which Harry renounces magic as evil and defeats Voldemort through Orthodox faith and ritual practice. I situate the work in its 2005 media context and read it as a genre shift toward Christian fantasy…