A Fan manifesto

bookshop wrote something that all of us in fandom, or who are concerned with censorship, intentional community building, and queer/feminist politics need to read. My response to it is below. (Lactavist mamas, listen up, six apart is at it again--now censoring fanfiction under the same "morality" clauses they used to censor breastfeeding icons last year)


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Yes, we need to claim our voice as fans, and as a culture. We are the minority voice of modern literature, as well as one of the strongest international internet communities that exist. And we are overwhelmingly female. It is time that we come together, and stand up for our worldview, which is a sex-positive, queer, anti-racist, celebration of the marginalized! We don't just "tolerate", or even "accept" the ugly, the fat, the dark (both literally and metaphorically), and the bent, we embody it, we embrace it, and we give it our voice. We are important. We are, I believe, the future of art, and of community. We are pioneers, and we dare not let ourselves, or our future descendants down. -Kristin

A Fan manifesto

bookshop wrote something that all of us in fandom, or who are concerned with censorship, intentional community building, and queer/feminist politics need to read. My response to it is below. (Lactavist mamas, listen up, six apart is at it again--now censoring fanfiction under the same "morality" clauses they used to censor breastfeeding icons last year)


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Yes, we need to claim our voice as fans, and as a culture. We are the minority voice of modern literature, as well as one of the strongest international internet communities that exist. And we are overwhelmingly female. It is time that we come together, and stand up for our worldview, which is a sex-positive, queer, anti-racist, celebration of the marginalized! We don't just "tolerate", or even "accept" the ugly, the fat, the dark (both literally and metaphorically), and the bent, we embody it, we embrace it, and we give it our voice. We are important. We are, I believe, the future of art, and of community. We are pioneers, and we dare not let ourselves, or our future descendants down. -Kristin

OK, conspiracy?

Am I the only one who is in both fandom and breastfeeding communities, who is able to realize that these mass fandom deletions are coming A YEAR TO THE DAY after the breastfeeding icon deletions? I was just over looking at my greatestjournal that I made during that fiasco, and saw the dates. What, does SixApart do a annual cleanup or something?

Edit: I just checked the boob_nazis archieves, and I was wrong, it started on May 20th, 2006. But seriously, that is pretty close to a year exactly. I wonder what the deal is?

OK, conspiracy?

Am I the only one who is in both fandom and breastfeeding communities, who is able to realize that these mass fandom deletions are coming A YEAR TO THE DAY after the breastfeeding icon deletions? I was just over looking at my greatestjournal that I made during that fiasco, and saw the dates. What, does SixApart do a annual cleanup or something?

Edit: I just checked the boob_nazis archieves, and I was wrong, it started on May 20th, 2006. But seriously, that is pretty close to a year exactly. I wonder what the deal is?