If feminist porn is first and foremost about highlighting women’s sexual pleasure and about the politics of producing that pleasure… then no cultural production better matches this mandate than romantic fiction… Central to romance fiction, as to feminist porn, is the depiction not simply of sexual activity but of women’s sexual satisfaction
Catherine M. Roach (Happily Ever After, pg 94)
There is… a powerful disincentive to identify with women in mainstream media: one is likely to be ambushed by sexism ranging from narrative irrelevance to depictions of graphic sexual violence and murder.
Francesca Coppa, “An Editing Room of One’s Own: Vidding as Women’s Work.”
Insofar as the public sphere becomes writable, the university classroom needs some protection; a certain contingent erasure from the public sphere. While students ought to do work that is alive in the world– indeed, they report feeling more engaged when they do so– there is also an important need for a buffer zone, since undergraduate education gives students the freedom to take risks, to experiment, and to fail.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis”
We argue that the radicality of the digital humanities is the potential it offers to expand our understanding to the vertical plane, or more precisely, planes of research. In vertical interdisciplinarity, there is a rich layering in both the method and the practice of teaching and scholarship, and this poses challenges to the very discursive categories employed. The disruptive components are the creative, aesthetic, and non-alphabetic elements, which once deployed vertically within a field radically transform its formal properties. If horizontal strategies make us imagine new narrative lines within a field, then the vertical approach forces us to rethink the narrator, what narrative form could be, and how we think, reflect, critique and express.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis”
The term ‘interdisciplinary’ typically refers to a kind of additive component, history plus literature, history plus art, and so forth. The perspective is essentially a horizontal one, linking fields without any fundamental change to the formal structures of any one discipline.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis.”
Okay, its 2015 and I’m still loving the 80s redux.
Good morning! Here, have a mini-Scissor Sisters dance party. ;)
Today’s writing playlist includes… (What else should I add to it?!)
The #LBTCScreenathonhasn’t even begun, and we already have a VARIETY of screenings in the works at… • a large military base in Hawaii • a beautiful new public library in Halifax • a romance readers’ conference in Denver • a Landmark theater in Cambridge, MA – and more! For information about how to host a screening of your own, visit:http://lovebetweenthecovers.com/screenings
For the next round of posts, I’m going to focus on some of the ways fans described themselves in 2008. In order to get a sense of who was participating in the 2008 Fan Fiction survey, the participants were asked for some general demographic information. At the time, I wanted to get a sense of the mix of fans taking the survey. Now, I’d love to know what you make of this data.
2) gender and sexuality
The vast majority of fans participating in the survey (96%) identified as female. Many participants identified as heterosexual (68%), but a significant portion of participants (32%) identified as non-heterosexual, including the 23% of participants that identified themselves as bisexual. That’s roughly a third of participants identifying as something other than straight.
I’ve got a few different things I’m wondering about this and I’d love to get your thoughts.
First, what do you make of this data? Is there anything else you think we should pay attention to here?
Also, how much does this match with your experience of fans and fandoms today?
Finally, how do you feel about surveys collecting this kind of information about fans? Do we need this kind of data? Is it useful?
Share your ideas by replying to this post or by posting comments on the Fandom Then/Now website.
