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andrecarrington.bsky.social
Acafandom: The Academic Study of Fandom @laworldcon.bsky.social @transformativeworks.org
Four people seated at a long table. Andrea Horbinski, Terilee Edwards-Hewitt, Kara Lenore, and Frauke Uhlenbruch
August 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
Ahead of time for the Acafandom: The Academic Study of Fandom panel! @laworldcon.bsky.social
August 28, 2026 at 9:53 PM
laworldcon.bsky.social
✏️ Filing off the Serial Numbers - A discussion about the rising trend of translating fanfiction for traditional publishing

✏️ Acafandom: the Academic Study of Fandoms and Transformative Works Data Analysis - An analysis of transformative spaces
August 24, 2026 at 7:20 PM
horbinski.bsky.social
All right, here's my schedule for @laworldcon.bsky.social! Excited to see everyone in person in Anaheim and online next month!
Schedule graphic "Where to Find Me at Worldcon": LGBTQ+ Representation on Anime and Manga, Thursday at 16:00; Acafandom: The Academic Study of Fandoms, Friday at 15:00; Rewriting History -- The Art and Ethics of Alternate Timelines, Friday at 19:30; The Music of Anime (Virtual), Saturday at 9:00
July 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
arallara.bsky.social
Hahaha it was pretty fun! This was in 2001/2002, so acafandom was barely a thing and no one in my grad program knew anything about fandom at all. It felt like I got to do some original thinking at the time, with a pretty small body of academic work to draw from.
April 23, 2026 at 8:54 PM
stitch.bsky.social
I was telling a friend about this on Discord but it's kind of funny (I'm not sure if funny ha-ha or funny pathetic, just yet) that when I see the rare positive reference to me/my journalism/acafandom work from other fans it's in a very Dead Anime Wife/Mom Haunting The Narrative Way?
March 4, 2026 at 2:40 AM
magloken.bsky.social
«Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism» av Anna Kornbluh er ei slik bok der eg må lesa ein del av avsnitta både to og tre gonger, og slå opp ord som 'haecceity' og 'acafandom'. Men det er kanskje meininga.
Immediacy's propensity to quiver with extremities minimizes art's capacity to imaginatively break with the merely given. And this demission now compromises cultural theory too. In the history of philosophy, in work from Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Adorno, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and others, "mediation" evokes the social process of making representation, connections, and meaning -which often reveals that the merely evident or intransitively existent does not already make sense. Immediacy style short-circuits and preempts this social process, swelling with self-identical thisness. Its reign in culture has evaded critical analysis because of its obvious appeal, but also because cultural theorists have succumbed to its intoxications. Across a wide variety of disciplines, theorists propagate the style in both form and content, denouncing abstraction while enthusing concretudes, writing in conspicuously "postcritical" modes like acafandom and autotheory to extol entanglement, the body, and tautological haecceity. Eating the real with a spoon.
August 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
It's a fine morning when the venerable xkcd covers a point I've been making for years, along with a fair few others. Acafandom is A Thing, scholars are fans and vice versa. This is neither a denigration of academic work, nor an "improper" valuation of fandom.
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
clarystella.bsky.social
idk i haven't dabbled in acafandom to know if there's much exploration into western fandom and how things changed due to the airing of this show in the west but it's something i've been thinking about a lot in the past few days
July 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
journal.transformativeworks.org
In 2015, "African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies" by ‪@rawreader.bsky.social was published in #TWC20! ‬In it, Wanzo argues that "a new genealogy of fan studies is needed." Read it here:
African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies | Transformative Works and Cultures
Because scholars have paid insufficient attention to race in fan studies, a new genealogy of fan studies is needed, one that includes different kinds of primary and secondary texts that have explored…
buff.ly
June 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
elizabethminkel.bsky.social
mmm I will say from my personal perspective, the fannish experience I was missing here a year ago—which is captial-F cross-fandom discussion, including acafandom—has largely migrated post-election, and I'm satisfied with it. My actual "doing fandom" remains on Tumblr + Discord + AO3.
May 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
journal.transformativeworks.org
#TWC44 continues with a roundtable discussion of the landmark essay on Black audiences by @rawreader.bsky.social . The discussion features @alfredmartin.bsky.social @andrecarrington.bsky.social @mediaequity.bsky.social Faithe Day, and Sascha Buchanan. Read it here:
The onus is not on us: Race and fan studies ten years after "African American acafandom and other strangers" | Transformative Works and Cultures
Rebecca Wanzo's landmark 2015 essay "African American Acafandom and Other Strangers" called for taking Black audiences, fandom, and critique seriously. In this roundtable interview, five Black…
buff.ly
December 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
halcek.bsky.social
The idea that there’s not an “official” instance as such is a good thing and by design. For art, fandom.ink may be a good alternative.
fandom.ink
fandom.ink is a small, community supported instance for lovers of fanfic, fan art, fan meta/acafandom, fannish communities, and blorbos of all kinds.
fandom.ink
October 21, 2024 at 4:45 PM
felcast.bsky.social
please help me on my mastodon poll fandom.ink/deck/@vainqu...
fandom.ink
fandom.ink is a small, community supported instance for lovers of fanfic, fan art, fan meta/acafandom, fannish communities, and blorbos of all kinds.
fandom.ink
October 1, 2024 at 12:45 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
I was a guest on „Portrait of a Fangirl“ to discuss academia, acafandom, fan studies and working on popular culture. Check it out wherever you find podcasts!

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March 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
angiefsutton.com
J.M. Frey is an author, screenwriter, and academic – and we talk over all three in this episode of "Contents May Vary".
#geek #interview #ContentsMayVary #fandom #writing #acafandom
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Contents May Vary: Author and Screenwriter J.M. Frey
J.M. Frey is an author, screenwriter, and academic – and we talk over all three in this episode.
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January 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
angiefsutton.com
J.M. Frey (@scifrey) is an author, screenwriter, and academic – and we talk over all three in this episode of "Contents May Vary".
#geek #interview #ContentsMayVary #fandom #writing #acafandom
November 12, 2024 at 12:09 AM
bluedream.ing
I know that my instance (fandom.ink) now federated with aethy again though it blocks images (I have to open them in a browser view which is fine); not sure about blorbo’s stance. Are you thinking images or just mostly text?
fandom.ink
fandom.ink is a small, community supported instance for lovers of fanfic, fan art, fan meta/acafandom, fannish communities, and blorbos of all kinds.
fandom.ink
September 29, 2023 at 5:23 PM
justalula.fandom.moe
for those wondering what fandom ink is:

https://fandom.ink/home
fandom.ink
fandom.ink is a small, community supported instance for lovers of fanfic, fan art, fan meta/acafandom, fannish communities, and blorbos of all kinds.
fandom.ink
August 18, 2023 at 2:02 AM