“Worlds. . .[of] Contingent Possibilities”: Genderqueer and Trans Adolescents Reading Fan Fiction

Abstract

Cultural studies scholars have long been interested in the nexus between people’s online activities and their identities. One activity that has drawn attention is reading/writing fan fiction (fictions written by and for fans that build upon the characters and worlds depicted in commercial texts). While fan fiction and its surrounding communities have long been understood as resistant to heteronormativity, previous work exploring the fans who produce and consume fan fiction has largely insisted that most of these fans are adult ciswomen. Little has been written about the experiences of trans and genderqueer fans. To remedy this elision, this article explores two trans and genderqueer individuals’ experiences with fan fiction. It closely examines the roles reading, and especially reading fan fiction, has or has not played in their understandings of themselves, their identities, and their places in the world.

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“…Este último principio conecta directamente con el concepto de "fanficción", una práctica marcada por la interacción de los seguidores con las ficciones a través de las redes sociales y que ha sido abordada ampliamente desde el ámbito académico durante los últimos años (Álvarez, 2021;Duggan, 2021;González, 2018;Gascón Vera, 2020;Vázquez et al, 2018;Villén y Ruiz del Olmo, 2020).…”