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missdforever · 6 months

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Nothing is more exhausting than being black in a mostly white fandom.

#marvel #stranger things #tvd #teen wolf #black fandom #black fans #scream

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dragonmaiden39point5 · 1 year

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Ikemen Prince Yves x Black MC!!!

It's been a minute since I've posted🥲 But I promise I haven't given up on my list! I'm working through it bit by bit. I've just had so little time for hobbies since I got a job. I'm just now working on getting a balance so I can keep creating. Anyways, here you go! I hope you enjoy ❤️

#dragonmaiden79 #dragonmaiden39point5 #black fans #black mc #black oc #black y/n #ikemen games #cybird ikemen #ikemen prince #ikepri #ikepri yves #ikemen prince yves

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iconlytical · 1 year

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RACISM WITHIN FANDOMS

this will be a lot of tea...

have you ever wondered what it is like for a black fan to be at a concert and try to enjoy a space filled with people who don't look like them? uncomfortable.

since 2022, i have gone to approximately nine shows so far, a majority of which i have enjoyed but still felt out of place at. the artists i have seen were billie eilish, justin bieber, harry styles, joshua bassett, inhaler, and pauli the psm. out of those, i saw harry like four times and i have been the most uncomfortable at his shows, as well as inhaler's.

of course, we all know that most of the fans at these shows are white, but there are always a few that are POC or black. i am the black one.

i have been a fan of one direction since what makes you beautiful was released and i still consider myself a fan. i didn't immediately jump on harry's solo career because at the time, i was kind of finding myself and had begun going to a predominantly black school, having come from a pretty diverse school at the beginning of 2014. however, when before the release of harry's second album fine line, i tuned in and begin to consider myself a fan, a "harrie." i started listening to all of his solo music (i did listen to sign of the times and knew of the release but still drifted towards trying to fit in with my black friends at the time) and i caught up. i didn't go to love on tour 2021 because i was a broke college student and found out last minute he would be in chicago, but i was still a true fan.

fast forward, the fine line era ends and harry's house era begins and i was truly excited because this was actually an era that i was fully here for from the beginning. his album announcement came, then the single and video announcement. there was the love on tour residencies announcement and the pop-up shops. i went to the chicago popup shop and i had gotten tickets to a chicago show (which ended up turning into three shows).

Harry's House Popup, May 2022

i was truly happy during this time and made a few friends. months go by, and i streamed the album when it releases and prepared for my show to come. my first show outfit slayed and no one can tell me otherwise. my show comes up on october 9th, and i was elated. i get ready earlier than i ever would and get to the arena a few hours before the show to take pictures and all of that, but remembered i was alone. i get to the united center and i am surrounded by white faces, i see no black people, maybe a couple of brown people, but mainly white. i get in line to take pictures at the phone booth and record my message to harry, i feel awkward. people have mean looks on their faces and socialize with the people they came with, and that's when i realized that these shows are better when you come with a clique. i always heard you'll make friends, but i made none because no one would talk to me. i got a compliment on my heels and had to ask a white girl behind me to take my pictures at the phone booth which i was scared to do because what if she said no.

Love On Tour, October 2022

overall, i had a good time, but the stares and mean faces made me really uncomfortable. i hadn't felt bad previously at a show because the energy at billie show wasn't mean girlish and i had my two other black friends who also loved justin bieber at his show. i ended up experiencing the same thing the last two nights of the residency, but night 6 was the icing on the cake. i had come before harry went on because someone sold me a ticket at last min and the united center handed out puzzle pieces for each show, i didn't end up getting one. i got my poster harry gifted everyone and spotted a puzzle piece on the ground. i was going to get it but had to walk down the stairs cause of my heels, but this white girl jumped down three rows over the seats and grabbed it before i could reach it even though i was clearly going for it and if you know the united center then you know how wide that is. i was upset, i told her i was getting it and she just looked at me like i was crazy, i'm sure she had one because she had been there seated comfortably before i got there. after that experience, i was put off but seeing harry live and hearing medicine overpowered that.

still, i would hear about and see the racism towards black fans because i was now on stan twitter and seeing what really goes down. every month, there were several white fans getting exposed for racist things they said about not only black people but POC, or misgendering of individuals. when it comes to harries, it seems like nobody can truly be a fan or in those spaces, if they're black or poc; however with asthmatics/inhaler fans, it seems like you just can't be black.

Inhaler, Rivera Theatre Chicago, March 2023

now, inhaler was formed in 2012 but had their big debut in 2019 when they got a lil stamina. they did tours from 2019-2020 before the pandemic happened, they even did lollapalooza which occurs in the city i'm from. i don't know how i had never heard of them because their music is so good. i began seeing stuff about them on twitter, not knowing that they would be opening for harry this year at his ireland show. but even anyways, i still started listening to them and eventually purchasing a ticket to their chicago show. i was also happy to hear that a few of my other friends would be coming, so i felt even better about going. i met one of my friends online in person for the first time and loved her and the other friends i met. a couple of my friends ended up being 50-something in line and i and my other friend were further back, which was fine. when we got inside, we wanted to be by our other friends, who were towards the front, so we made our way to her. most of those people we went past were friendly and let us through, but then this one girl seemed like she had an attitude. she was a POC, and looked hispanic. she gave me a nasty good and acted like i couldn't be by my friend and there was space. i still got by my friend, but we ended up moving back one row to be in front of our other friend. throughout the entire show, the girl who had an attitude talked shit to her friend and didn't even sing or dance, she just recorded and stood like a statue.

how is this racism you may ask? this girl friendly conversed with everyone around her besides me and my friends, who were about the only black people at the show. besides experiencing rude people, my friends and i had the best time. sunroom and inhaler was the loudest show i had been to, so i will definitely need earplugs. i just want people who aren't POC, especially black, to acknowledge that racism in fandoms occurs even if it's not happening to you and take action to make others feel welcomed in these spaces cause there will be people who don't look like you that enjoy the same music or artists that you do.

best,

kai

#racisim #fandoms #fangirl #pop culture #inhaler dublin #harry styles #harries #black fans #celebrities #music #thoughts #educational

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transformativeworksandcultures · 2 years

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CFP: Centering Blackness in Fan Studies **DEADLINE EXTENDED**

This special issue centers Blackness in fandom studies. Fandom studies has gestured toward race generally, and Blackness in particular, from its alleged white center while always keeping race at its margin. It has largely co-opted the language of race, difference, and diversity from the margins and recentered it around white geeks and white women. Indeed, fandom studies has done lots of things—except deal with its race problem. But as Toni Morrison (1975) asserts, that is the work of racism: it keeps those at the margins busy, trying to prove that they deserve a seat at the center table. In this way, those considered marginal expend energy trying to be granted access to the center while citing, reifying, and expanding the supposed universality of the center that fails to engage the margin because it is too particular. If, as the title of Audre Lorde’s famous 1984 essay reminds us, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” then it is time to willfully ignore white fandoms, just as Black fandoms have been willfully ignored.

For this special issue, we seek to privilege and celebrate Blackness, not as a comparative but as enough on its own. We want essays that build on the relatively small but groundbreaking scholarly work that centers Black fandoms, including work on young Black male (Brown 2000) and female (Whaley 2015) comic readers; Black gay sitcom fans (Martin 2021a); Black fan “defense squads” that protect fictional characters’ Blackness (Warner 2018); Black fan labor (Warner 2015); Black antifandom (Martin 2019b); Black fans’ enclaving practices (Florini 2019b); Black female music fans (Edgar and Toone 2019); and Black acafans (Wanzo 2015). It also engages and with and builds on our Black feminist foremothers, including bell hooks (1992), Jacqueline Bobo (1995), and Robin Means Coleman (1998), who showed us ways to think about how Black audiences engage with media. This corpus of work on Black audiences and fandoms provides a base for further theorization about the experiences and meanings of Black fandom. We encourage work that engages, nuances, and challenges this foundational work, leading to novel reconsiderations of how fan studies defines and understands Black fandoms.

We invite submissions that contribute to a conversation that centers Black audiences, fans, antifans, and global Blackness itself. We are not interested in comparative studies of Black fandom practices, because Blackness is enough. This issue seeks to center Blackness and (anti)fandom in all of its permutations. We hope the following suggested topics will inspire wide-ranging responses.

Black folks and “doing” fandom.

Black fans and deployment of (anti)fandom.

Black fan practices imbricated in a politics of representation.

Affective Black fandoms.

The politics of Black (anti)fandoms.

Interactions between Black fans and media producers.

Audience/fan response to Black-cast remakes and recasting non-Black-cast texts with Black actors.

Black fandoms of non-Black-cast media.

Blackness and enclaving.

Black music fandom.

Black sports fandom.

Black fandom and labor.

Black fandom and affect.

Black antifandom and hate.

Global Black fandoms.

Black fandom and contemporary or historical politics.

Mediated constructions of Blackness.

Black fandoms and celebrities/parasocial relationships.

Black queer fandom.

Disabled Black fandom.

Case studies of specific texts related to Black fandom.

Historical and archival accounts of Black fandom.

Submission Guidelines

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is an international peer-reviewed online Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and promotes dialogue between academic and fan communities. TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms, such as multimedia, that embrace the technical possibilities of the internet and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.

Submit final papers directly to Transformative Works and Cultures by January 1, 2023. JULY 1, 2023

Articles: Peer review. Maximum 8,000 words.

Symposium: Editorial review. Maximum 4,000 words.

Please visit TWC's website (https://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or email the TWC Editor ([email protected]).

Contact—Contact guest editors Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Matt Griffin with any questions before or after the due date at [email protected].

Due date—July 1, 2023, for 2024 publication.

Works Cited

Bobo, Jacqueline. 1995. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia University Press.

Brown, Jeffrey A. 2001. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Click, Melissa A., and Sarah Smith-Frigerio. 2019. “One Tough Cookie: Exploring Black Women’s Responses to Empire’s Cookie Lyon.” Communication Culture and Critique 12 (2): 287–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz007.

Coleman, Robin R. Means. 1998. African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor. New York: Routledge.

Early, Gerald. 1988. “The Black Intellectual and the Sport of Prizefighting.” Kenyon Review 10 (3): 102–17.

Edgar, Amanda Nell, and Ashton Toone. 2019. “‘She Invited Other People to That Space’: Audience Habitus, Place, and Social Justice in Beyoncé’s Lemonade.” Feminist Media Studies 19 (1): 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1377276.

Everett, Anna. 2001. Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Florini, Sarah. 2019a. Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York: NYU Press.

Florini, Sarah. 2019b. “Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Black Game of Thrones Fandom.” In “Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color,” edited by Abigail De Kosnik and andré carrington, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1498.

hooks, bell. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press.

Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2021a. The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2021b. “Blackbusting Hollywood: Racialized Media Reception, Failure, and The Wiz as Black Blockbuster.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60 (2): 56–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2021.0003.

Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2019a. “Fandom while Black: Misty Copeland, Black Panther, Tyler Perry, and the Contours of US Black Fandoms.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (6): 737–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877919854155.

Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2019b. “Why All the Hate? Four Black Women’s Anti-fandom and Tyler Perry.” In Anti-fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age, edited by Melissa A. Click, 166–83. New York: NYU Press.

Morrison, Toni. 1975. “A Humanist View, Part 2.” Presented at Black Studies Center public dialogue, Portland State University, May 30, 1975. Transcription available at: https://www.mackenzian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Transcript_PortlandState_TMorrison.pdf.

Rose, Tricia. 1994. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.

Shankman, Arnold. 1978. “Black Pride and Protest: The Amos 'n' Andy Crusade.” Journal of Popular Culture 12 (2): 236–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1979.1202_236.x.

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. 2005. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Tracy, James F. 2001. “Revisiting a Polysemic Text: The African American Press's Reception to Gone with the Wind.” Mass Communication and Society 4 (4): 419–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327825MCS0404_6.

Wanzo, Rebecca. 2015. “African American Acafandom and Other Strangers: New Genealogies of Fan Studies.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 20. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0699.

Warner, Kristen. 2018. “(Black Female) Fans Strike Back: The Emergence of the Iris West Defense Squad.” In Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, 253–61. New York: Routledge.

Warner, Kristen J. 2015. “ABC’s Scandal and Black Women’s Fandom.” In Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, edited by Elana Levine. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth. 2015. Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

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peter3swifey · 2 years

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I was on the Remus Lupin x reader tag and why'd I find a fic that basically described a white person. Like, pale skin and all. I just don't understand why people can't we more inclusive to other races. Ik I sound annoying but I can't find fics made for specifically black girls cuz they all assume I'm Sirus blacks sister. Why put the x reader tag if it's not x reader??? Black people read fanfics too.

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yellowistheraddest · 3 months

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LOOK THEY'RE BOTH WORLD FAMOUS BLONDE CHEFS WHO TRAVEL AND HAVE AN AESTHETIC RELATED TO FLAMES, THEY ARE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#sorry to all the sanji fans for killing our guy's emo bangs #one piece #one piece fanart #op fanart #fanart #myellowart #fan comic #art #sanji #black leg sanji #zoro #roronoa zoro #franky #cyborg franky #franky op #AGAIN I APOLOGISE FOR MAKING THIS

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d-does-art · 2 months

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*Swaps your captains*

I re-drew this a little better.

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februarys-wednesday · 6 months

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starkid fans when they see Normal Man and his Barista Crush onscreen for 0.5 seconds:

#im starkid fans btw #like i screamed out loud when i saw them in npmd #i'll never get sick of them #starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #npmd #starkid npmd #nerdy prudes must die #emma perkins #paul matthews #lauren lopez #jon matteson #theatreposting #elle's original content

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stellarspecter · 6 months

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@pscentral event 20: antagonists ↳ THE LORDS IN BLACK in NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE

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bluumey · 8 months

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Been suffering with a cold the past week, have some wonky doods

#art #illustration #digital art #artwork #drawing #illustrators on tumblr #black art #fan art #spiderman #miles morales #prowler #across the spiderverse #rio morales #sketch

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beachbeibi · 5 days

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Introducing the little dumpling baby from my last Zosan comic, her name is Kuina and I love her very much

#zosan #sanzo #sanzoro #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #one piece #one piece anime #beibi art #fanart #fan work

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ghostface-knight · 4 months

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i've got some big news for the person who left this comment on the black friday trailer

#they predicted nerdy prudes #i hope they're still and fan and got to see the day their vision was fulfilled #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #tgwdlm #hot chocolate boy #peter spankoffski #pete spankoffski #black friday musical #starkid

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dragonmaiden39point5 · 11 months

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IKEMEN SENGOKU Shingen Takeda x Black MC

#ikesen shingen #dragonmaiden39point5 #black fans #black oc #black mc #ikemen #ikemen shingen #ikemen sengoku shingen #shingen takeda #ikemen games #ikemen sengoku

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my-castles-crumbling · 6 months

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Sirius Black proposing to Remus Lupin, because he would never do it himself- he has too much self-hatred and self-doubt.

Sirius Black getting down on one knee and asking if, maybe, Remus would be willing to love him for the rest of their lives, because he was absolutely sure that he would love Remus for the rest of his.

Remus Lupin tearing up and muttering in thrilled disbelief, “Are you serious?” Because he’s so happy and excited and he’s not thinking straight.

Sirius Black grinning tearfully and saying, “Yes, I’m Sirius. Sirius Lupin, hopefully.”

And Remus just fucking sobbing.

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thenerdyalchemist · 7 months

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Happy FMA day!

Don’t forget 3 oct 11

#fullmetal alchemist #fma #fma day #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma art #edward elric #alphonse elric #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #winry rockbell #ling yao #lan fan #black hayate #mine #my art #royai #kinda?

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peter3swifey · 2 years

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Y'all cannot be fr ab this byler and steddie thing. Yall, we are all stranger things fans and we need to stick together.

#stranger things #black reader #erica sinclair #lucas sinclair #trending #black fandom #black fanfiction #black fans #eddie munson #steve harrington #byler #will byers #steddie

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