FROM: A History of Male Involvement in the Fan Fiction Community Or: Challenging Assumptions: Fandom isn’t a bastion of femaleness
by Laura Hale
In fan the fan fiction community, there has been at various points in our history an assumption that the community is a largely female one: female driven, female led, a community with feminist perspective or bent, female majority, a history where women are at the forefront. A look deeper into the history of fan fiction challenges this assumption of the fan fiction community being one of female privilege.
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... The comic book fandom had Darth Yoshi, aka Christopher W. Blaine. Darth Yoshi was active in promoting a number of more obscure comic book fandoms, promoting awards and otherwise giving increased visibility to ignored parts of the fandom. His fan fiction helped kick start a number of comic book fandoms on FanFiction.Net. David Ivanick helped to drive much meta discussion in the comic book fandom because of the article he had published in May of 2001’s Savant #42. In the Elfquest fandom, there was Whip. He was a member of and maintainer of the FAQ for the biggest Elfquest fan fiction mailing list on the Internet in 2000.
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