“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation

Floegel, Diana

doi:10.1108/jd-11-2019-0217

Cited by 119 publications

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“…My findings corroborate previous research (Anselmo, 2018;Dym et al, 2019;Floegel, 2020;Hanmer, 2014;Lamerichs, 2018;Ng, 2008;Pullen & Cooper, 2010;Waggoner, 2018), and strongly suggest that the online world, fandoms and fanfictions can play a crucial role in the lives and well-being of WLW. Eighty-six percent of the respondents stated that the online world was very important to them as WLW (rating 7, 8, 9, or 10 out of 10)-the most common answer being 10 (34%); hence corroborating the interests of those conducting the survey.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Evans and Mathur (2005) also highlight several weaknesses of online surveys including "skewed attribute of internet or respondents online" (p. 197); however, this survey deliberately sought a skewed sample around those interested in the topic and who were engaged online. This both conforms and contrasts to previous research on fan communities, much of which is ethnographic in nature (Bacon- Smith, 1992;Jenkins, 1992;Radway, 1984;Waggoner, 2018) or incorporates similar techniques such as in-depth interviews or textual analysis (Anselmo, 2018;Dym et al, 2019;Floegel, 2020;Hanmer, 2014;Ng, 2008;Pande, 2018). In relation, a strength of ethnographic or interview data is the opportunity to explain and engage with participants.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Hence, as Floegel (2020) advocated in their research, further exploration is needed, particularly using research methods (such as targeted interviews or participatory action research) that unpack LGBTQ homogeneity. In particular, it is possible that this study, with its lack of adaptability, may reproduce the whiteness that is present both online (Noble, 2018) and in fandom research (Floegel, 2020).…”

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“…Connecting both the online world and media are online fandoms and fanfictions, which are stories adapted and reinterpreted by fans from canonical texts (Mackey & McClay, 2008). Due in part to the participatory nature, fandoms and fanfictions can operate as counter-sites to dominant narratives (Anselmo, 2018;Dym, Brubaker, Fiesler, & Semaan, 2019;Floegel, 2020;Jenkins, 1988;Hanmer, 2010Hanmer, , 2014, hence being an important space for those outside mainstream media and society (Dym & Fiesler, 2018). However, recent research (De Kosnik & Carrington, 2019;Pande, 2018; E. E. Thomas, 2019) highlights how fandoms may embrace both gender and sexuality diversity, this does not often stretch to diversity of race.…”

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“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW

Llewellyn

2021

Journal of Homosexuality

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In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms (and fanfictions), which can operate as places of resistance for marginalized groups. Through the collection of survey data completed by 79 women loving women (WLW), this study therefore asks, in what ways does the online world, particularly in relation to fandoms, open up spaces for WLW. Employing a Foucauldian analysis, findings suggest communities online are crucial for affirmative support, and fanfictions are places where queerness is normalized. As such, through the displacement of time and space, online spaces (and particularly fanfictions) operate as heterotopias that significantly disrupt normative societal discourses. Accordingly, empathetic communities and the normal queer are notably absent from many WLW's physical worlds. However, caution is urged as these results are less clear for women of color.

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Section: The Limits Of Heterotopia: "Culturally Homogenous"mentioning

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“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW

Llewellyn

2021

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…Drawing on interview data with 25 queer participants in seven different countries as well as content analysis of fanfiction texts and five social media platforms used by fans, Floegel will discuss overlapping liberatory and oppressive dimensions of embodied and affective elements of information creation. In particular, they will demonstrate how intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1988; Collins, 2000) functions within queer creative practices and the online spaces in which they occur so that white, Western, and cisgender fans experience self‐discovery and catharsis through fanfiction while fans of color, non‐Western, and transgender fans experience oppression and marginalization (Floegel, 2020; Pande, 2018). Further, Floegel will discuss how elements of social media platforms like their taxonomic systems and content warnings serve to enforce inequitable experiences for queer fans along racialized, gendered, and nationalized lines.…”

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Expanding Our Conceptions of Embodied and Affective Information Interactions with Queer Theory

Floegel

Wagner

Delmonaco

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Embodiment and affect are understudied in information science work to date. Literature that engages with embodied information interactions typically focuses on physical bodies, while work on affect largely centers people's emotional experiences in formal knowledge institutions like libraries. Room therefore exists to grow in our understanding of embodiment and affect, particularly in terms of theorizing how bodies and feelings factor into a wide range of information experiences from non-dominant standpoints. This panel centers queer experiences and queer theory in order to expand conceptions of and connections between embodied and affective dimensions of information interactions. Panelists will present a range of research that examines queer people's practices and experiences with information in historical, archival, creative, and health-related domains. Bodies and emotions are essential components of critical queer theoretical perspectives, meaning that scholarship which centers queerness and its intersections with constructs like race has great potential to expand many branches of information science further beyond their normative bents. In concert, topics discussed should spark conversation among attendees about the theoretical and practical benefits of deeply studying embodiment and affect and further utilizing critical theory in multiple domains within the information science discipline.

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Advancing information practices theoretical discourses centered on marginality, community, and embodiment: Learning from the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities

Kitzie

Wagner

Lookingbill

et al. 2021

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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This conceptual paper identifies future directions for information practices theoretical discourses addressing marginality, community, and embodiment. We extend arguments from critical research identifying how existing discourses fail to capture the nuanced, lived experiences of people and communities confronting marginalization, predominantly via their reinforcement of deficit narratives. We then connect a series of qualitative projects examining the information practices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual communities in the American South with relevant Library and Information Science (LIS) research to examine how marginality, community, and embodiment shape these practices. Specifically, we introduce a conceptual model that describes marginality by framing information practices as tactical and agentic responses to and refutations of social and structural barriers and risks. While some of the information practices of participants and communities appear to be uninformed or unsafe, they represent the products of community sharing and vetting. Embodied navigations further inform participant practices as they navigate information worlds produced and informed by their intersectional identities. These arguments coincide with key categories established within our model that describe information practices: defensive and protective, and community and self. Based on these insights, we offer directions for future research and theory to reorient existing discourses in ways that inspire middle-range theory building that fully captures people's lived experiences.

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“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation

Cited by 119 publications

References 60 publications

“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW

“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW

Expanding Our Conceptions of Embodied and Affective Information Interactions with Queer Theory

Advancing information practices theoretical discourses centered on marginality, community, and embodiment: Learning from the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities

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