Iman

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Just the most thrilling day today. Meeting the cast was nice, watching the episode was even better. The nicest part though was meeting all the lovely people who have lived in my phone for years (pictures not included, sadly).

A picture taken from my seat in the theatre before the Wheel of Time Screening. The innkeeper is introducing things A picture of Me (a black hijabi in a black dress) with Ayoola who plays Aviendha and Olu (a black man in his twenties wearing a turtle neck)a picture of Olu, I and Cameron with Taylor (who plays Maksim)A picture of Olu and me with Kate Fleetwood

Seeing Rosamund Pike twice this year* is a little funny given my hates Moiraine allegations. *there’s every chance I don’t see her at all because I could die in my sleep tonight.

This is my only contribution to any poster chatter because I’m so proud of myself - and sad for Lan and I can say it here because all the book people I like are here. You have all left me with the show only stans on Twitter(!!!!)

Moiraine in front of Nynaeve who is in front of Lan who is in front of Alanna on the poster. I couldn’t crop Loial.

Right now, visits from my tiny circle of friends are exactly what I need (it's a difficult time for me). George RR Martin (he’s roadtripping with Michael Cassutt; was great to meet him!) stopped by last night and got to meet my space cats. 😊 Ah, cats and friends. They are joy.

George RR Martin meeting Periwinkle Chukwu and Neptune Onyedike

Now and again today, I remember The Midnight Boys casting Katt Williams and Kevin Hart as Merry and Pippin, and I have a little giggle. Michael B Jordan is Aragorn & Denzel is Gandalf. They're also going to recast Black Panther but with an all-white cast. 💀

I have had too much spare time lately & I feel a PhD thesis brewing on how fandoms are inherently racist. I looked up what work exists & brother, this is right up my street lmao. I can put all my hater energy into something. The problem is I like money too much to be a PhD student.

Taylor & Francis
Popular Communication >
The International Journal of Media and Culture
Volume 22, 2024 - Issue 2

Making fandom great again: silencing discussions of racism in reactionary and transformative fandoms
Lauren Rouse ~
Megan Condis & Mel Stanfill
Pages 67-79 | Received 05 Oct 2023, Accepted 22 Mar 2024, Published online: 29 Mar 2024UNIVERSITY
of CALIFORNIA
PRESS
FEMINIST MEDIA HISTORIES

RESEARCH ARTICLE | JANUARY 01 2024
"Get out of here you anti":
Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media
Fandom
FREE
Rukmini Pande
Feminist Media Histories (2024) 10 (1): 107-130.
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.107
The Unbearable Whiteness of Fandom and Fan Studies
March 2018
DOI:10.1002/9781119237211.ch19
In book: A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (pp.305-317)
Authors:
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Mel Stanfill

Abstract
Fan studies, as a field, currently does not have a robust engagement with race. Recent years have seen the emergence of some awareness of fan studies' gaps with regard to race and attempts to fill them. Here, it is argued that it is the whiteness of both fandom and fan studies that encourages this inattention to race. The whiteness of fandom leads to fans refusing to address race as well as actively foregrounding whiteness. Whiteness is also vital to examine as a key factor in the media industries' contemporary engagement with fans. Despite the whiteness of the fandoms that fan studies tends to examine, fans of color do of course exist in them, and the specificities of this dynamic also need to be examined carefully. There is also a substantial gap in our understanding of the specific experiences of fandoms of color.

The Prestige TV podcast is covering The Agency. They asked if it’s possible that Samia knows Paul isn’t who he says he is & my first thought was *I* would know a secretive white man in Addis is a spy… that or he has a wife…

The Agency is so funny. They stole Le Bureau’s whole flow. They just changed Syria for Sudan to make it more apt for our times. The scenes are otherwise 1:1.

1. Le bureau des légendes (so I know what to expect in The Agency). 2. The Leftovers 3. Fazilet Hanim ve Kızları - I’m back in my Turkish era. Funnily enough, I have 4 more days of bed rest so this is what I’m up to.

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I’ve been so exhausted by 2024, that I don’t think I’ve processed the fact that we’re a week (give or take) away from a new year with all its hopes & resolutions.