Vikki Godwin
@vikkigodwin.bsky.social
Fan studies scholar. I write about costuming, customizing, collecting, and more. Editor of Journal of Fandom Studies. Fan Studies Area co-Chair for PCA.
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
Craftivism:
A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...
www.npr.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Craftivism:
A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
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TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years
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Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals
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Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals – Fanhackers
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January 19, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals
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Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study
By Hengrui Luo
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study
By Hengrui Luo
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study | Intellect
This study examines the cultural and economic dimensions of anime merchandise through a case study of character perfume. Emerging in the 1960s as a form of low-budget, limited animation, anime has evo...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study
By Hengrui Luo
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study
By Hengrui Luo
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value
By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value
By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value | Intellect
Framed within cultural studies, this article offers a longitudinal case study on how the symbolic and cultural value of Japanese male idols is constructed through fan practices and subsequently transf...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value
By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value
By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts
By Indira Neill Hoch
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts
By Indira Neill Hoch
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts | Intellect
This article uses multimodal discourse analysis to address responses to perceived sexualization on Tumblr through the explication of a specific post and its reblogs. Tumblr’s particular affordances in...
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts
By Indira Neill Hoch
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts
By Indira Neill Hoch
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity | Intellect
This study uses fandom as a conceptual foundation to ascertain how self-identities and personality traits are reflected across library and information sciences (LIS), a field with varied specializatio...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
By Justin Jones
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
By Justin Jones
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki | Intellect
The SCP is a body of user-submitted fiction often compared to other user-submitted horror such as Creepypasta. While these comparisons have been made in research and among the SCP community, the SCP s...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include:
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
By Justin Jones
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
By Justin Jones
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020)
By Sarah Breyfogle
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020)
By Sarah Breyfogle
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020) | Intellect
Review of: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020)
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 247 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-60938-728-0, p/bk, USD 75
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020)
By Sarah Breyfogle
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020)
By Sarah Breyfogle
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024)
By Maria K. Alberto
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024)
By Maria K. Alberto
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024) | Intellect
Review of: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024)
New York: New York University Press, 264 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-47982-496-0, p/bk, USD 30.00
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024)
By Maria K. Alberto
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024)
By Maria K. Alberto
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024)
By Rebecca Williams
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024)
By Rebecca Williams
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) | Intellect
Review of: Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024)
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 236 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-49685-472-8, p/bk, USD 30
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024)
By Rebecca Williams
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024)
By Rebecca Williams
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
By Deniz Yilmaz
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
By Deniz Yilmaz
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022) | Intellect
Review of: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
New York: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-37453...
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include:
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
By Deniz Yilmaz
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022)
By Deniz Yilmaz
doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
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New conspiracy theory just dropped:
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New conspiracy theory just dropped:
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
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SIG members, don't forget that our event with @alfredmartin.bsky.social is a week from today. Al will be talking about his new book, FANDOM FOR US, BY US. Please register here to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/fandomforus
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
SIG members, don't forget that our event with @alfredmartin.bsky.social is a week from today. Al will be talking about his new book, FANDOM FOR US, BY US. Please register here to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/fandomforus
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.
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Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.
August 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture | Intellect
Much has been written when it comes to world-building, the nature of fan cultural practices, affect and digital media platforms. Each contributes in their own way to the field of media and cultural st...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now with Book Reviews:
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture | Intellect
Much has been written when it comes to world-building, the nature of fan cultural practices, affect and digital media platforms. Each contributes in their own way to the field of media and cultural st...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now with Book Reviews:
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
August 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
August 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include:
Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...