#Slash fiction tv#
#Slash fiction free#

TIM JONES-YELVINGTON: As a queer person and Women’s and Gender Studies undergrad, I feel like I have been aware of slash for a long time as this earlyish example of viewers applying a queer reading to pop culture, going back to Star Trek fandom and Kirk/Spock slash in fan-distributed zines in the 1970s. And it twists things, denies them their heterosexual hegemony a bit maybe? Slash is cultural reuse, renewal it’s good for the environment.

#Slash fiction tv#

Like sometimes I think just about how much culture there is–everything books, movies, TV shows, etc.–too much nearly. Is how it incorporates and manipulates and messes with and has fun with all this cultural stuff around us.

#Slash fiction free#

MEGAN MILKS: I’m interested first in hearing: what’s your relationship to slash? Are you a reader of slash, a writer of slash, a writer writing outside of the slash community but adopting slash-like approaches? Why/what is appealing or interesting to you about this genre of writing?ĪLEX KALAMAROFF: Along with introductory explanatory readings, are there examples of slash (ideally easily accessible online) that you’d recommend that are of particular interest, Megan? Like what’s some of the best slash you’ve read? … I’ve got a copy of your book Kill Marguerite (aaah … I haven’t read it yet but I am going to start by looking at the “Sweet Valley Twins #119: Abducted!”, which I think Tim mentioned).Īlso, feel free to edit/delete all of this later on, since it’s more me learning than analyzing/discussing.īut to actually get into the proposed questions: What interests me about this

Consider it ongoing.įeaturing contributions from myself, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Alex Kalamaroff, Byron Campbell, and a special guest spot from Michael du Plessis. This conversation is fascinating, wide-ranging, and too, too rushed.

Over the space of a week, we managed to tackle slash as an appropriative art form and a site of queerness we thought a bit about ethics and zones of permissibility as they relate to slash, particularly Real Person Slash (RPS) and we considered slash as a model of influence for writing outside of slash as a genre. Increasingly slash refers to ‘shipping’ characters (imagining them in relationships) regardless of sexual orientation.įor this month’s Sunday conversation, a number of us converged to consider the teeming terrain of slash fiction. SLASH: a genre of fan fiction that (typically) imagines queer relationships between presumably straight characters. Image Credit: Desert Heat – Spock and Kirk by Gayle Feyrer