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Episode 183: Fandom and Religion
It’s easy to make basic comparisons, but are fandom and religion really that similar?
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Episode 182: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 14
Listener mail on fandom conspiracy theories, AO3 collections, moving from lurking to participating, and more.
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Episode 181: The Illusions of Crowds
If we can all see it, how could we possibly be wrong?
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Episode 180: Happy Anniversary #7
The past year’s guests share observations about what’s changed in fandom, both broadly and personally.
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Episode 179: Fan Labor, Fan Consumption
We do, in fact, live in a society.
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Episode 178: Kaitlyn Tiffany
A conversation with the author of Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It.
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Episode 177: The Good, the Bad, and the Popular
Is there actually any relationship between the quality of the source material and the size of a fandom?
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Episode 176: Liang Ge
A conversation with a scholar of Chinese boys’ love fiction (aka danmei), on bodies, gender, ambivalence, and more.
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Episode 175: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 13
Listener mail on author’s notes, crossovers vs. fusions, creating new fic archives, and more.
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Episode 174: The Classification of Fandom
Was “affirmational” vs. “transformational” ever a useful distinction?
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Episode 173: The Meta Episode
Is the practice of writing fan meta in decline—or is it just evolving?
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Episode 172: Safe Spaces
Can we create fandom environments that allow us to truly protect ourselves?