Season 1 · Episode 109
Episode 109: Covering Fandom
Fansplaining · fansplaining
September 18, 20191h 19m
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Show Notes
Amidst a string of mediocre-to-bad articles about fandom in mainstream publications, Flourish demands answers from Elizabeth: How does one of these things get made? They discuss different kinds of publications, pitching, editing, differences between academic and journalistic writing, and fandom's tall poppy syndrome. They also respond to a listener who asks whether there's a statistical way to determine a fandom's percentage of "filthy kinksters."