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Elizabeth Minkel

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Co-host & editor of @Fansplaining; co-curator of The Rec Center (buttondown.email/the-rec-center). elizabethminkel on Bluesky & Tumblr.
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(Re)Introducing Fansplaining

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By Elizabeth Minkel
| Fansplaining Verified
Fans have never been more visible in the mainstream. Hollywood’s endless franchises and reboots; the romance and romantasy booms; fanfiction being sold for seven-figure book deals; fans using social media for good and for ill. Fandom is made up of a vast array of overlapping subcultures—and today, it underpins mass culture. To understand the world, you have to understand fandom. So why does it feel like the media conversations around fans and fandom are going in circles?
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Too Big To Fail (On Television)

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By Elizabeth Minkel
| Fansplaining Verified
Towards the end of the second season of HBO’s Silicon Valley, Gavin Belson, the CEO of fictional tech giant Hooli, addresses his company’s board while standing beside a screen that offers a single-word question: “FAILURE?” “What is failure?” Belson asks the board (“gentlemen…and lady”).
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Fansplaining’s Next Chapter

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By Elizabeth Minkel
| Fansplaining Verified
Announcements — 5 min read She’s outlining her next fic. Fansplaining’s Next Chapter Fansplaining was born at a major inflection point for fan culture. It was 2015, and all sorts of people were talking about fans: they were the great hope of franchise-obsessed Hollywood studios, or an irresistible object of curiosity for traditional media outlets, or a subculture that everyone in the world suddenly had an opinion about.
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