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TWC No. 46 released

2025-09-15

Transformative Works and Cultures has released general issue No. 46, edited by coeditors Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill.

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Vol. 46 (2025): General

Published: 2025-09-14

Editorial

Shaking the foundations of fan studies

TWC Editor
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Article

Japanese anime song fandom in crisis: Live music attendance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Ken Takakusa
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Disordered eating, disordered reading: Wintergirls and the fannish practices of pro-ana

Taylor Drake
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Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction

Rachel Loewen
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Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities

Clare Sears
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"I wish my life was like this": Queer identity work in BL fandom

Caitlin Joyce
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Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction

Ye Jiang
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Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction

Kelsey Cummings
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Teaching with fandom: Promoting student subject engagement and critical reflection through fan fiction writing

Jaime W. Roots
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Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types

Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, Oxana Mikhaylova
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Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction

Kate Prior
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Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion

Michael A. Elliott, Marissa Mowers
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Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)

James Brooks Kuykendall
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Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective

Janne Poikolainen
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New currents

Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies

Suzanne R. Black, Naomi Jacobs
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Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction

Julia Neugarten
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"Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works

Alison Harding, Travis Wagner
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Character.AI and the quest for immersion in fan fiction practices

Tara Heimberger
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"This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence

Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, Ka-Wei Pang
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(Un)Creation: Labor, love, fandom, and generative AI

Irissa Cisternino, Rebecca Radillo
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Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal

Jing Bai
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Symposium

Queer time and space in genderqueering fancams #transpeterparkeredit

Sidnee Lim
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Polyphemus ❤️ Acis: The conduit in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Robert S. Santucci
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Multimedia

An unlikely documentary: Interview with Brannon Carty

Kelsey Wildman Stokes
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Book review

"Boys love media in Thailand: Celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture," by Thomas Baudinette

Katherine E. Morrissey
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"Sartorial fandom: Fashion, beauty culture, and identity," edited by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott

Fiona Katie Haborak
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