Queer Women's Fandoms Across Screens, Borders, and Desires

Introduction - Queer Women’s Fandoms: Transcultural Imaginaries and Global Perspectives

Jamie J. Zhao and Eve Ng

1. “In this life or the next”: “Cancel Your Gays” and the Warrior Nun “Save Our Show” Campaign

Kimberly Dennin

2. “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “Girl Crush,” and Transcultural Networks Through Queer Fan Labor

Jasmine Proctor

3. A Commentary on “Queering” Darna: How the Darlentina Fandom Reimagined the Darna 2022 TV Series

Cherish Aileen A. Brillon and Patricia Mae Dacanay

4. Flipping the Script: Feminist Meaning-Making, Queer Love, and the “Green Tea Bitch” in Chinese Baihe Fandom

Mengmeng Liu

5. “TGCF but lesbian?”: The Dangai Anime TGCF and Its Transnational Fandom

Ting Guo and Aiqing Wang

6. Queer Women Prefer Older Sisters: The Onee-san Voice, the Woman Game Streamer Southern Senior Female Schoolfellow, and the Aurora Australis Fandom

Jamie J. Zhao

7.“If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?” Networked Transphobia in Lesbian Popular Culture Spaces

Eve Ng

Biography

Jamie J. Zhao is a global queer media scholar and an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, China

Eve NG is a professor in the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Ohio University, Athens, USA.

“An excellent collection whose warrior nuns, sapphic K-pop fans, and queered older sisters expand fan and audience studies’ scope in exciting and important ways. Refreshingly transnational, its meticulous, richly-detailed case studies and superb introduction by Zhao and Ng model big tent, big stakes work.”

Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin – Madison, co-editor of Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World.

“Ng and Zhao are at the vanguard of a new wave of scholarship on “sapphic” fan formations. Queer Women’s Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires deftly navigates the double binds that have delayed a truly intersectional approach to these complex communities. The essays in this volume (and its valuable introduction) refuse to atomize gender, sexuality, region/nation, theory and politics, resulting in nuanced analyses that will delight readers interested in media representation and participatory audiences within a transcultural frame.”

 Julie Levin Russo, The Evergreen State College, author of numerous articles on queer women's fandoms

"It is a timely and compelling anthology that centers queer women’s fandoms through rich, globally diverse case studies, rectifying their longstanding marginalization and opening exciting new avenues for research in fan and queer studies."

 Ling Yang, Associate Professor at Xiamen University, PR China, ranked as the World's Top 2% most-cited scientist (in literary studies) 2023 by Stanford University.

"Queer Women’s Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires offers a singularly nuanced understanding of how female homoeroticism, desire, and solidarity operate across geo-cultural boundaries. Its focus on troubling heretofore celebratory scholarship of queer women’s fandom and engage with such contradictory phenomena as the co-optation of queer fan labor, reproduction of transphobic discourse in queer women’s spaces, and the entanglement of fan communities with digital capitalism and state censorship make this book essential reading for scholars of not only media fandom, but gender, sexuality, and globalization writ large."

 Lori Morimoto, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Temple University Japan - Kyoto Campus