Textual Echoes: homophobia and misogyny in slash

[paceus]

Yet another post about the fanfiction conference Textual Echoes. The abstracts of the papers presented at the conference are hereSexual identities were discussed a lot. A tendency to reject homosexual identities had come up frequently in research. Sophie van de Goor, talking about her paper "Slashing Japan: the self-depathology of the female fan,"

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[dancing_moon]

Your interesting posts and thoughtful discussions about this conference makes me feel guilty for not scribbling together my own impressions. I certainly tried to take plenty of notes!

I hope you don't mind if I friend you?

[paceus]

No, I definitely don't mind! *friends back*

I'd love to read more impressions on the conference, so if guilt helps with that... *g*

[unjapanologist]

After "more than 20 minutes means no dinner", I'm pretty sure no other threat or attempt at guilt-tripping will ever impress me again. That one was seriously scary.

I will blog. Soon.