Posts tagged ‘fandom’

Short notice and all, but if you’re in Northampton, Massachusetts and bored this weekend, then ConBust might be worth your while. There’s a whole list of fantastic and broadly varying topics on the schedule page. Some ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

Metaneira is a 30 year old female currently in school for a master’s in public administration focusing on the non-profit sector. Meta has been gaming since she could hold a joystick, and has been blogging ...

I’m not really in to SciFi or Fantasy fandom like some of my c0-bloggers; the ones that are though are really quite busy at the moment. This will hence be brief because I don’t know ...

Another one bubbling up from our linkspamming hive mind: criticism of “Mary Sue” policing. Mary Sue is a fandom term for a character who is judged to be authorial self-insert and wish fulfilment, prototypically a ...

Like a lot of people, I think, I became an instant convert to the cult of Sady when I read her 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon last week. I’m a big 30 Rock ...

Liz Henry’s thoughts on geekitude got me wanting to post my own half-formed thoughts on the topic. (Crossposted from my personal blog at Skud’s suggestion.) Evidently I have the capacity to continuously raise my standard ...

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to give us your questions for an interview with Dr. Francesca Coppa, one of the founders of the Organization for Transformative Works. Thanks to those of you ...

Today’s guest post is by aca-fan Kristina Busse. She is the co-editor of the journal Transformative Works and Cultures and blogs at ephemeral traces. My name is Kristina. I am a mother and a fan. ...

Spend a day or two away from LJ/DW, get hopelessly behind on what’s happening in fandom’s latest Fail. I first learnt of this new phase of the brouhaha via ivorygates’ post: I am aware that ...

Francesca Coppa is one of the founders of the Organization for Transformative Works. She’s also… … director of film studies and associate professor of English at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches courses in dramatic literature, ...

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree. (A review of “Year of the Flood”.) sarahtales takes on Uhura, Harriet Potter, and Jo from Little Women and ...