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Episode 140: Miranda Ruth Larsen
The fan studies scholar talks K-pop in 2020—the artists, the media, and the fans.
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Audio, show notes, and transcripts for the full back catalog of the podcast
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Episode 139: The “Q” is for “Queerbaiting”
Shipping, subtext, teasing, representation, and “going canon”.
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Episode 138: 2020 By the Numbers
Some stats you may actually enjoy looking at in this cursed year.
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Episode 137: . . . And There Was Only One Trope
Do you want exactly what it says on the tin?
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Episode 136: Political Fictions
Politics as fandom, and fandom as politics.
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Episode 135B: Race and Fandom Revisited: Part 2
Featuring Stitch, Anisa Khalifa, Effy, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Sam, Phoebe Sinclair, and Dr. JSA Lowe.
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Episode 135A: Race and Fandom Revisited: Part 1
Featuring Dr. Rukmini Pande, The Navy Language, Sunny Liu, Holly Quinn, PJ Punla, Paracelsus Caspari, Roz, and Clio.
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Episode 134: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 8
Listener mail on adaptations, sports RPF, making friends in fandom, and more.
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Episode 133: Slash: The Discourse
We had to do it eventually.
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Episode 132: Purity Culture 2020
When fannish arguments become a worldview.
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Episode 131: Happy Anniversary #5
The past year’s guests discuss changes they’ve seen in fandom.
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Episode 130: Pam Noles
Tales from Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con.