This post originally appeared on Negative Dunkalectics. Throughout the season, I've been wanting to write something about "liberated fandom" and "negative cosmopolitanism": specifically something ...

A staple of my childhood, like so many folks of the nerdy persuasion, was a tattered, well-worn VHS copy of The Empire Strikes Back. And thanks to my brother and me watching the tape of the second ...

At a decibel so loud it creates seismic tremors in the steel support beams of Reunion Arena, a crowd of 19,000, mostly female preteens and 20-somethings, let out animalistic cries of adoration. I’m ...

Content warning for discussions of death (by illness, accident, and suicide) and grieving. When I was a teenager and one of my fandom friends stopped posting, chances are that they decided they didn’t ...