Features
African K-Pop Fans Are Building Their Own Spaces
While the K-pop industry largely ignores them, fans in Kenya and Nigeria create K-pop communities for themselves.
Transcultural Fandom
Features
The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
Episodes
Episode 140: Miranda Ruth Larsen
The fan studies scholar talks K-pop in 2020—the artists, the media, and the fans.
Episodes
Episode 71: Lori Morimoto
The fan studies scholar on transcultural fandom, contact zones, and bridging the fan/academic divide.
Episodes
Episode 11: Muggles v No-Maj
A transatlantic crossover with Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, hosts of the “SRSLY” podcast.