thanks for posting this! it's a treat to read some of your work. I think this is a strong gloss of the current convoluted landscape of fan-producer relations. it's especially interesting to read about the case of Xena, as it was so unique and groundbreaking and I'm woefully delinquent
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my stance is that there's no way around working within the institutions as they currently exist. power is what it is and you gotta speak its language to get anything done. (though i do think that textual poachers didn't go far enough because it still positioned fans as solely reacting to media rather than there being a mutually constitutive relationship, however lopsided.) guess i should clarify all that in the chapter before it goes to the committee.
re: CP, i heard, but did not get accepted. which is fine, 'cause i already have to scare up about a thousand bucks to get to wisconsin in april, though i'd have rather gone to SB and not madison.
oh drat, that's really disappointing. we'll have to continue the convo about our work online, I guess.
I'm totally with you on resistance from within, and on the mutually constitutive relationship. I just have a lot of ambivalence about whether a politics of representation is the most fruitful intervention. "visibility" has its place, but I still tend to find the proliferation of queer readings outside the authorized text to be a greater challenge to its heternormativity. anyway, I'm trying to sort out how to articulate my position on this too, especially in the SVU and L Word chapters.
sorry to have dropped this so abrubtly--had an app due the 1st and another for the 5th, and xmasing and no internet in between.
anyway, it's not about visibility for me. it's about getting more control over the visibility/represented-ness already out there. actually seeing people like you on television, having something to work with in the discourses available to you when figuring out who you are, etc.
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re: CP, i heard, but did not get accepted. which is fine, 'cause i already have to scare up about a thousand bucks to get to wisconsin in april, though i'd have rather gone to SB and not madison.
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I'm totally with you on resistance from within, and on the mutually constitutive relationship. I just have a lot of ambivalence about whether a politics of representation is the most fruitful intervention. "visibility" has its place, but I still tend to find the proliferation of queer readings outside the authorized text to be a greater challenge to its heternormativity. anyway, I'm trying to sort out how to articulate my position on this too, especially in the SVU and L Word chapters.
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anyway, it's not about visibility for me. it's about getting more control over the visibility/represented-ness already out there. actually seeing people like you on television, having something to work with in the discourses available to you when figuring out who you are, etc.
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