Latina fans agitate respectability: Rethinking antifans and antifandom

Authors

  • Yessica Garcia Hernandez UC San Diego

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1623

Keywords:

Ethnic studies, Fan studies, Fat studies, Porn studies, Racialized sexuality

Abstract

This piece proposes that the fields of ethnic studies, fat studies, and sexuality studies (with a focus on racialized sexualities) can help us think about antifans and antifandom from a different lens. I utilize identity hermeneutics to analyze some of my own fan sites that center fat women of color, nonnormative sexualities, and Latina deviance. I offer the heuristic of agitation and agitated discourse to think through the hater (antifan) comments that Latinas encounter online about their fat racialized flesh.

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Published

2019-03-15

Issue

Vol. 29 (2019): Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color

Section

Symposium

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