Many ppl have already said this but the possible loss of twitter is going to be an enormous blow to academics living/working in the global south, as well as those critical of institutional hierarchies and disciplinary issues. Within fan studies many vital convos started with ppl articulating their frustrations here... Actual change is slow and frustrating and many ppl (including myself) have faced backlash for being critical...but it was atleast a point of possible solidarity.

A reminder that the harrassment and undermining that particularly Black actors in popular media face comes from ALL parts of fandom, yes, even your corner.

From Nicole Beharie in Sleepy Hollow to John Boyega in SW and many more..it's a consistent pattern that's often overlooked I was interviewed some time ago about "how do fandoms combat white supremacy?" and I was honest in my answer that they usually don't... It sounds a bit dire I know but if you take into account the ways in which whiteness structures fandom there's really no other answer to give

I'd like ppl to sit with the fact that we're at a point in queer fandom where larger ~discourse around culture wars etc has created a space where sympathetic content abt #nazis is actively/proudly defended.

That may not be what you, personally, intended to happen but here we are I know I should shut up but it's awful to watch more fans being alienated from parts of fandom they've spent years contributing to/building up.

Jewish ppl are being called variants of fascists for pointing out the holocaust shouldn't be used as a prop.

Noticing trend of characterizing the convo around anti-Blackness and #AO3 as “US/Western-centric” convo, and in danger of reinforcing "US/western" norms of racialization.

I'd just like to point out that:
- Anti-Blackness is transnational
- Centering this will NOT harm nb-POC Apart from anything else, the resonance the current #BLM protests are having all over the world is showing us how depressingly globalized ideas of anti-Blackness are!

So why would this be a less valuable convo if we DID center this??