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Episode 20: Inside Baseball
In Episode 20, "Inside Baseball," Elizabeth and Flourish talk to Cecilia Tan, who took her partner to a Yankees game in 1999 and ended up with the first baseball fan blog online—an...
Episode 19: Cataloging Fandom
In Episode 19, "Cataloging Fandom," Elizabeth and Flourish talk to Ludi Price, a librarian and PhD student in information science whose research focuses on how fans collect, tag, s...
Episode 18: Slash: The Movie
This episode of Fansplaining is a little different: due to a technical problem, we weren't able to use our guest's audio, so we posted a transcript of the whole conversation, and t...
Episode 17: The Powers That Be
In our first SPECIAL DOUBLE EPISODE, "The Powers That Be," Elizabeth grills Flourish on how the sausage gets made. Topics covered include how a TV show gets picked up for pilot, ho...
Episode 16: Larry is Real
In Episode 16, Flourish and Elizabeth welcome back statistician destinationtoast for her first segment as a regular contributor! They take a quantitative look at some linguistic is...
Episode 15: ~fanspeak
In Episode 15, ~fanspeak, Elizabeth and Flourish interview Gretchen McCulloch, a linguist who studies the way people speak online. Topics covered include Cabin Pressure, the use of...
Episode 14: Death & the Fangirl
After the deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, Elizabeth and Flourish take some time to reflect on the way fandom mourns their idols. Featuring Casey Fiesler (professor of Infor...
Episode 13: Destination: Stats!
In Episode 13 of Fansplaining, Elizabeth and Flourish interview Destinationtoast about her world-famous fandom statistical analyses. Topics covered include "2015: A (statistical) y...
Episode 12: The Year In Fandom 2015
In Episode 12 of Fansplaining, Elizabeth and Flourish count down their five top media fandom stories of 2015—and ask you to share your own. They also share personal fandom stories ...
Episode 11: Muggles v No-Maj
In Episode 11 of Fansplaining, "Muggles v No-Maj," Elizabeth (while in England) interviews Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz of SRSLY, the New Statesman's pop culture podcast;...
Episode 10: Fangirling Through Time
In Episode 10 of Fansplaining, Fangirling Through Time, Elizabeth & Flourish interview Evan Hayles Gledhill about the Tumblr of the Victorian era, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey an...
Episode 9: The Will It Waffle Radio Hour
In this episode, we interview Jackson Bird, communications director of the Harry Potter Alliance and waffle aficionado. Topics covered include the changing definition of "fan activ...
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