Transformative Works and Cultures
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A twice-a-year online-only Gold Open Access peer-reviewed journal focusing on media and fan studies, broadly conceived.

Synthetic kayfabe: Generative AI, provenance, and authenticity work in wrestling fandom

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Emergent genders: Living otherwise in Tokyo's pink economies, by Michelle H. S. Ho

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Matters arising in postapartheid South African fandom

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The collective memory of 1970s–1980s feminist science fiction fandoms: A case in reflexivity and historiography for fan studies practices

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Preservation, policy, and the Archive of Our Own: An open letter

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From the Canadian shack to the Canadian cottage: Heated Rivalry as slash

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Nationalist and popular culture practices on social media: A digital ethnography of Chinese online fandom nationalists, by Chenyang Song

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The Ke-able revolutionary specter: Ideological suturing and subjectivity production in Chinese young women's historical fan fiction of the French Revolution

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Fandom for us, by us: The pleasures and practices of Black audiences, by Alfred L. Martin Jr.

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Clickbait, clout, and collapse: The life cycle of the antifan economy

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Spock's penis and the racial politics of feminist fantasy: Situating race at slash fan fiction's origins

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A sea of green: Gang cosplay and affective belonging at NBA YoungBoy's MASA tour

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Who is this diva? Affect, race, and transformative normalization in fan edits

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Render, remake, rebellion: A typology of fan film

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Gorgeous meditation of selves: Reparative work among fans of Sailor Moon

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Bad authors and strained attachments to the Harry Potter franchise

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Harry Potter converts to Orthodoxy? Moral realignment in the Russian play The Repentance of Harry Potter

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The transformative use of shame in fan fiction practices: A Directioner case study

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Tags on Archive of Our Own as genderfucked technology

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Genre shock in transcultural fandom: English-language slash fans, danmei, and the morality policing of queer representation

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