Fansplaining

In Episode 103, Flourish and Elizabeth interview Leah Hennessey and Emily Allan, creators of "Slash: The Play," which they recently performed at Joe's Pub in New York City. Topics ...

In Episode 102, Elizabeth and Flourish talk about characterization: how fans interpret it, get attached to it, and fight about it. How do fans collectively come to an understanding...

In Episode 101, "Stan Culture," Flourish and Elizabeth talk with Keidra Chaney, co-founder and publisher of The Learned Fangirl, about the terms "stan," "stanning," and "stan cultu...

In Episode 100, "The More You Know," Elizabeth and Flourish celebrate the ways they've learned and grown in the past four years of Fansplaining, reflecting on key areas where they'...

In Episode 99, "The Shipping Answers," Elizabeth and Flourish are joined by special guest and DATA PROFESSIONAL verity to analyze the 17,391 (!!!) responses to the Fansplaining Shi...

In Episode 98, "The After Effect," Elizabeth and Flourish talk about characterization and RPF, pegged to the release of the film After, adapted from Anna Todd's massively popular H...

In Episode 97, "The Shipping Question," Elizabeth and Flourish unveil their brand-spanking-new survey, on shipping and what we mean when we say we're doing it. They discuss the ins...

In Episode 96, "Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 4,"  Flourish and Elizabeth respond to a plethora of listener letters on a wide variety of topics, including genderbending, imagines...

In Episode 95, "Back to the Fans," Flourish and Elizabeth discuss director Jason Reitman's recent comments—that the upcoming Ghostbusters film would give the franchise "back to the...

In Episode 94, "Save Our Show (It's A Metaphor)," Elizabeth and Flourish talk fan petitions—to keep a show on the air, to get a ship together, to de-canonize a piece of content, an...

In Episode 93, "User-Generated Content," Elizabeth and Flourish tackle the thorny intersections between making stuff you love and getting paid. They start with the recent round of ...

In Episode 92, "Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 3," Elizabeth and Flourish read and play another batch of listener letters and voicemails. Topics covered include fandom's future pl...