'These spaces should be ones where we’re protected and where we can explore our identities in fiction or in conversations with other queer people. We shouldn’t have to be left out of the fantasy.'
There’s a certain kind of fantasy about queer fandom spaces. A utopia, where queer content flows fast and free and queer fans come together to celebrate queerness in many forms. It’s the ultimate safe space for queer fans.
– became a way to decide who was “really” queer and then punish people for claiming queerness online. In fandom, people’s marginalized identities are often used as a trump card to win ship wars and shut down even the most valid criticisms. Ace discourse is often leveraged as a way to define and control who gets to be queer in these spaces and whose queerness counts when it comes to content creation and consumption.
It’s all about exclusion, a desire to “protect” queer communities from outsiders, gone awry. Ultimately, the people harmed by these conversationsqueer themselves, and queerness isn’t clear-cut. Across history and queer theory, what gets claimed as queer can be contested and even controversial because we’re all shoved under an umbrella that’s too large and too small for us at the same time.
fix-it fic is a cishet person claiming queerness to fetishize a queer villain… why not pull back a little a think “what if my queerness isn’tFandom is also a form of social community building that positions some people as “in group” and others as outsiders, and that outgrouping occurs very quickly. That setup puts all members of the queer community in a position to fight with one another over what they see as a dwindling amount of resources and attention.
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