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In this extended cut of the Challenging Fandom Racism roundtable, fan studies scholars Dr. Rukmini Pande, Stitch, joan miller, and Dr. Samantha Close join finnagain to discuss transformative fandom’s cyclical struggle to recognise racism, the skepticism and harassment faced by fans and acafans who speaking out against racism, why the AO3 and the OTW need to change, and ways fans can practice anti-racism in our fannish lives and online communities.

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Consulting Fans: Dr. Rukmini Pande, Stitch, joan miller, Dr. Samantha Close, finnagain
Producer/Editor: finnagain

• Dr. Rukmini Pande twitter
  • Squee From the Margins: Fandom and Race with the University Iowa Press
  • Upcoming edited collection (2020): Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices
  • Interview with Henry Jenkins
  • Interview on Fansplaining on racism in fandom
  • Article on racism in femslash fandoms
• Stitch twitter
  • Stitch Media Mix blog
  • Why Write About Fandom Racism At A Time Like This?
  • Antiblackness in (Service of) the Archive: A Statement
  • On Korean Artists Using Their Platforms to Say that Black Lives Matter
  • Series What Fandom Racism Looks Like
  • Stitch Talks Ish podcast
• joan miller twitter, bio
  • Website: likejoanofarc.com
  • Interview: “Who and What Belongs: #Gamergate and Abjection“
  • Article on Cosplay and Race in forthcoming collection Fandom, Now In Color
• Dr. Samantha Close twitter
  • Website But No Cigar
  • Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom
  • Article on Knitting Activism, Knitting Gender, Knitting Race
• OTW
  • • This Week in Fandom, Volume 149 (blog post previously featuring Dr. Pande and Stitch’s work)
    • Statement from the OTW Board of Directors, Chairs, & LeadsOTW
    • 2020 OTW Elections Q&A Racism in the OTW and Its Projects
• More texts:
  • Teland, 2003, My. Fucking. God. on Pete Ross in Smallville
  • Dissensus by Jacques Ranciere
  • Pose FX series
  • Cassandra Khaw’s Persons Non Grata series: Hammers on Bone and A Song for Quiet
  • Alissa Cole’s A Princess in Theory
  • Recommended Authors of Afrofuturism: Octavia Butler, N. K. Jemisin, Nalo Hopkinson