Fansplaining

In Episode 91, "Casey Fiesler," Flourish and Elizabeth welcome the information science professor back onto the podcast to discuss her research, especially her study on the way tran...

In "The Year In Fandom 2018," Elizabeth and Flourish discuss the events of the year: What trends from 2017 continued, what was less important, and did anything new begin to emerge?...

In Episode 89, Elizabeth and Flourish welcome back Dr. Rukmini Pande, a fan studies scholar whose new book, Squee From the Margins, explores race in both the field as well as fando...

In Episode 88, Flourish and Elizabeth interview Kenyatta Cheese, a founder of Know Your Meme and currently of Everybody At Once, the company behind the social media presences of Do...

In Episode 87, Elizabeth and Flourish offer up an extra (and possibly unwanted) fourth installment of THE DISCOURSE TRILOGY, entitled, "What We Discourse About When We Discourse Ab...

In Episode 86, "The Money Question," Flourish and Elizabeth complete their inadvertent DISCOURSE TRILOGY with a conversation about the monetization of fanfiction. The first half fo...

In Episode 85, Flourish and Elizabeth talk about the ever-contentious topic of age in fandom. They start with childhood—are there aspects of childhood that are naturally fannish?—a...

In Episode 84, "Purity Culture," Elizabeth and Flourish brace themselves and dive into a topic they've been asked about many times before. They define and deconstruct the term, alo...

In Episode 83, "Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 2," Flourish and Elizabeth answer a pile of listener letters from the past few months. Topics covered include responses to the recen...

In Episode 82, Elizabeth and Flourish interview writer, producer, and former TV executive Javier Grillo-Marxuach about his long career both as a fan and as a member of the "powers ...

As they do every August, Flourish and Elizabeth welcome the past year's guests to talk about what's changed in fandom, on a global level, a personal level, or both. Topics include ...

In Episode 80, "Real Person Fiction," Elizabeth and Flourish are joined by Aja Romano, internet culture writer at Vox, to discuss RPF: writing fiction about celebrities and other r...