asterroc | Still a hell of an essay.

Just read this for the first time, and it's pretty awesome.

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kassrachel at Still a hell of an essay.

Just reread this essay (along with its new introduction), and it's still a damn fine piece of work.

Fandom and male privilege: Seven years later, by Rebecca Lucy Busker. A taste:

Media fandom as most of us know it is often largely a female space, by which I mean that many of the circles we run in are made up mostly of women. Women write stories for other women, make vids for other women, talk with other women, and go to cons with other women. Although few of us actively want to exclude men, we're not really invested in drawing them in either. Fandom is one of the few places where you'll actually hear, "Wait, so-and-so's a guy?" We're kind of used to that.

Except lately, these fairly small spaces have been expanding, and intersecting with spaces where there are more men. Often, everything is fine and dandy. It's just that sometimes, it's not.

It's in the Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books issue of TWC. w00t.

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