Hidden transcripts and public resistance

Authors

  • Kate Elizabeth McManus University of Minnesota

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1713

Keywords:

Fan activism, The Handmaid's Tale, Politics, Protest

Abstract

Fan fiction can be a way to explore emotional fallout after events in canon. It is not a stretch to use fan fiction to process real-life events. This small collection of observations is of some changes I have seen in the few fandoms I belong to in the wake of a few events in the early months of the Trump administration. The work fandom is doing has become a necessary part of how some people process these moments.

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Published

2020-03-15

Issue

Vol. 32 (2020): Fandom and Politics

Section

Symposium

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