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This week, our C-List Superhero is Oh Taewon AKA Taegukgi (Marvel Comics), and our A-List Superhero is Vampirella (Dynamite). Our Uninformed Expert Panel this week is Emily Jaye, as always, and our special guest is author Foz Meadows (@fozmeadows). Listen in as they learn about our two heroes and weigh in on whether either, or both, is fuckable... like, at all.

Do you want to be a future guest on BWSW? Supporters of TWIFH on Patreon at the $10 and $15 tiers get to be Uninformed Expert Panelists, so head over to http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory and support the show!

::Magical girl transition!:: This week, V and Emily were asked to finally, after three and a half years of hosting a fandom podcast, tackle an anime episode. So, because we are not anime girlies, we asked THEE anime expert, Erica Friedman, to join us and explain all things yuri! From school stories in the 1920s and 1930s to Sailor Moon's magical girls, and from Japan to the United States, Erica teaches us about the importance of F/F anime and manga and even inspires us to, perhaps, watch an anime film. We also discussed historical viewing lenses, queerbaiting language, '70s Trek fandom of course, and much more in this supersized episode!

Sources

By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime & Manga by Erica Friedman

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Virtual TGIF/F - Our friends at TGI Femslash have just announced a brand-new, online fan con happening this summer. On August 29–30, Virtual TGIF/F will bring femslash fans from around the world together for discussion panels, online events, and more. Registration opens June 1st. Find out more at tgifemslash.com/virtualcon

Pop Syllabus - Pop Syllabus is a show where host Christiana Mbakwe Medina deconstructs the zeitgeist and answers the big cultural questions. How did we swing from body positivity to thin-being-in? Why do so many people trust wellness influencers over medical doctors? And how did tech oligarchs become the new celebrities? Think of Christiana as a cross between a messy news anchor and guerilla academic. Each week, she and an expert guest will unpack a buzzy topic, and help us understand the moment while going through it.

Aim High Brooch Designs - For 25% off any order on Aim High Brooch Designs on Etsy, including a custom brooch, bag charm, keychain, or magnet design, use the promo code TWIFH.

Welcome to another episode of the TWIFH special miniseries podcast, CONstruction: How to Throw A Fan Convention. Each month, V will catch up with John @jarrow, the logistics guy with all the spreadsheets and contracts for TGI Femslash, about, well, how to throw a successful fan convention. If you've ever thought, "It sure would be fun to spend the weekend with other people talking about my blorbo" but didn't know where to start, John has the knowledge and is willing to share it. This month, we're 8 months away from the next TGI Femslash in-person con, and we're also two months out from the very first TGIF/F Virtual Con -- make sure you get your passes!

If you have any questions for John about TGI Femslash or about the logistics behind planning a convention, you can send them to him via the TWIFH inbox on our Tumblr!

This episode will be available to all listeners for 7 days before access is locked to our $5+ Patreon donors.

This week, our C-List Superhero is Beatriz Bonilla da Costa AKA Fire (DC Comics), and our A-List Superhero is Clint Barton AKA the worse Hawkeye (Marvel). Our Uninformed Expert Panel this week is Emily Jaye, as always, and our special guest is Fansplaining founder and editor-in-chief Elizabeth Minkel. Listen in as they learn about our two heroes and weigh in on whether either, or both, is fuckable... like, at all.

Do you want to be a future guest on BWSW? Supporters of TWIFH on Patreon at the $10 and $15 tiers get to be Uninformed Expert Panelists, so head over to http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory and support the show!

Do ya feel lucky? Punk! This week, V and Emily are so, so, sososo delighted by a new-to-them fandom: Harry/Johnny, which is technically -- technically -- the Dirty Harry fandom, but is REALLY just an offshoot of Starsky & Hutch. Created wholecloth by two fannish friends based on a single look in the middle of a movie that is only the second out of five in a series that is Decidedly Not Slashy, Harry/Johnny was a hugely influential slash fandom of the 1980s and WE LOVE IT SO MUCH NOW. Come be totally delighted with us!

Sources

Fanlore: Harry/Johnny
Fanlore: Ruth Kurz
Fanlore: July (NSFW)
Fanlore: Ad Nauseum Press
Fanlore: Dirty Harry

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Virtual TGIF/F - Our friends at TGI Femslash have just announced a brand-new, online fan con happening this summer. On August 29–30, Virtual TGIF/F will bring femslash fans from around the world together for discussion panels, online events, and more. Registration opens June 1st. Find out more at tgifemslash.com/virtualcon

Rereading the Revolution - Whether it was a reaction to the politics of the time or the rapidly approaching end date of the Mayan calendar, the pop-cultural landscape of the early 2010s can be best remembered for one thing: dystopian literature. Join plucky young heroines Daphne and Kellie as they dive into all of your favorite young adult novels and series from this era as we reread the revolution. We lived through it once and are back to recap, review, and discuss all the best and worst that the world-shifting genre of YA fiction has to offer–the sci-fi, the fantasy, and the supernatural–at least until our society crumbles and we have to survive a brave new world.

The Pieces - Alright babes, Bimini is here with their very own podcast! Bimini is challenging the world around us and asking how the experiences we've lived have made us the people we are today. From pop stars to politicians, artists and activists, every week Bimini will be unearthing the moments that have shaped their guests' identities, whilst exploring how the world today is impacting the people we are becoming. New episodes drop Tuesdays.

Aim High Brooch Designs - For 25% off any order on Aim High Brooch Designs on Etsy, including a custom brooch, bag charm, keychain, or magnet design, use the promo code TWIFH.

Welcome to another episode of the TWIFH special miniseries podcast, CONstruction: How to Throw A Fan Convention. Each month, V will catch up with John @jarrow, the logistics guy with all the spreadsheets and contracts for TGI Femslash, about, well, how to throw a successful fan convention. If you've ever thought, "It sure would be fun to spend the weekend with other people talking about my blorbo" but didn't know where to start, John has the knowledge and is willing to share it. This month, we're 7 months away from the next TGI Femslash in-person con, less than a month away from the Faberreunion, just over one month out from the very first TGIF/F Virtual Con -- make sure you get your passes!

If you have any questions for John about TGI Femslash or about the logistics behind planning a convention, you can send them to him via the TWIFH inbox on our Tumblr!

Shake it off? This week, V and Emily delve way too deeply into a corner of the internet that makes them feel insane: #gaylor, which in some accountings kicked off this week in fandom history with Glee's #shirtgate. How? Why? Whomst? Where? It's all been way-too-meticulously recorded for the ages, so join us down the rabbithole. Also featuring Sebastian Stan??? (How could it be a TWIFH episode without mention of Bucky Barnes, tho. To be fair.)

Sources

Gleehab
@swiftgronmasterpost (Thank you to Bella for pointing this V's way!)

Promo

Aim High Brooch Designs - For 25% off any order on Aim High Brooch Designs on Etsy, including a custom brooch, bag charm, keychain, or magnet design, use the promo code TWIFH.

Virtual TGIF/F - Our friends at TGI Femslash have just announced a brand-new, online fan con happening this summer. On August 29–30, Virtual TGIF/F will bring femslash fans from around the world together for discussion panels, online events, and more. Registration opens June 1st. Find out more at tgifemslash.com/virtualcon

Pop Syllabus - Pop Syllabus is a show where host Christiana Mbakwe Medina deconstructs the zeitgeist and answers the big cultural questions. How did we swing from body positivity to thin-being-in? Why do so many people trust wellness influencers over medical doctors? And how did tech oligarchs become the new celebrities? Think of Christiana as a cross between a messy news anchor and guerilla academic. Each week, she and an expert guest will unpack a buzzy topic, and help us understand the moment while going through it.

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