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2026-09-14

TWC No. 49 Released

Transformative Works and Cultures has released general issue No. 49, edited by Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill.

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Vol. 49 (2026): General

Published: 2026-09-14

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Article

Genre shock in transcultural fandom: English-language slash fans, danmei, and the morality policing of queer representation

Laurel P. Rogers
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Tags on Archive of Our Own as genderfucked technology

Lauren Nicole Balser
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Harry Potter converts to Orthodoxy? Moral realignment in the Russian play The Repentance of Harry Potter

Mykhailo Beliavskyi
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"A sacrifice is made when the dark gift is shared": Queering narrative and fan techniques against purist reading practices

Lillian Lu
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Render, remake, rebellion: A typology of fan film

Ryan Nock
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The transformative use of shame in fan fiction practices: A Directioner case study

Sascha Tanuja Samlal, Hannah McCann
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Who is this diva? Affect, race, and transformative normalization in fan edits

Paige Ildiko
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"Every demented detail I could ask for has been rendered": On fan-made media and celebrating the affordances of the action figure

Luke Moy
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Bad authors and strained attachments to the Harry Potter franchise

Bailey Apollonio
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Gorgeous meditation of selves: Reparative work among fans of Sailor Moon

Megan Catherine Rose, Patrick W. Galbraith
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The collective memory of 1970s–1980s feminist science fiction fandoms: A case in reflexivity and historiography for fan studies practices

Loïg J. F. Pascual
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Symposium

Spock's penis and the racial politics of feminist fantasy: Situating race at slash fan fiction's origins

Alexis Lothian
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From the Canadian shack to the Canadian cottage: Heated Rivalry as slash

Kristina Busse
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Preservation, policy, and the Archive of Our Own: An open letter

Carolina Rocha
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A sea of green: Gang cosplay and affective belonging at NBA YoungBoy's MASA tour

Andrea A. Lewis
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Clickbait, clout, and collapse: The life cycle of the antifan economy

Yifei Yang
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Synthetic kayfabe: Generative AI, provenance, and authenticity work in wrestling fandom

Andrew Firr
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Matters arising in postapartheid South African fandom

Ambrose Kolawole Dada, Janelle Vermaak-Griessel
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The Ke-able revolutionary specter: Ideological suturing and subjectivity production in Chinese young women's historical fan fiction of the French Revolution

Yuan An
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Book review

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