Fansplaining

In Episode 115, "Power Plays," Flourish and Elizabeth discuss three listener letters that deal with the use (or misuse) different kinds of power in and adjacent to fandom. How do w...

In Episode 114, "Live From GeekGirlCon," Elizabeth and Flourish take the show on the road and record their first-ever live episode—from the 9th annual GeekGirlCon in Seattle, Washi...

In Episode 113, Flourish and Elizabeth look at brand social media accounts' relationships with fandom, from direct appeals to adopting the persona of a fan. When a musical, a break...

In Episode 112, Flourish and Elizabeth talk to Rainbow Rowell, author of Fangirl, Carry On, Wayward Son, and many other novels, as well as the current run of Marvel's Runaways comi...

In Episode 111, "Canon, What Canon?" Flourish and Elizabeth discuss listener questions about the relationship between fans and the source material—including what happens when fans ...

In Episode 110, "Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 5," Elizabeth and Flourish answer a new collection of listener letters and voicemails. Topics covered include ageism, "valorizing" ...

Amidst a string of mediocre-to-bad articles about fandom in mainstream publications, Flourish demands answers from Elizabeth: How does one of these things get made? They discuss di...

In Episode 108, Flourish and Elizabeth interview Claire Kiechel, a playwright and a writer on The OA, a Netflix TV show that was recently cancelled—and the subject of a passionate ...

Continuing an annual tradition, Flourish and Elizabeth celebrate their fourth anniversary with guests from the past year, who talk about changes in fandom from the global to the pe...

In Episode 106, "The Neverending Franchise," Flourish and Elizabeth debrief after Fansplaining's panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, "Don't Dream It's Over: What Fans Do When Long-R...

In Episode 105, Flourish and Elizabeth talk to Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and the author of I Like to Watc...

In Episode 104, Flourish and Elizabeth revisit the fannish version of the fourth wall—the barrier between fans and creators. In the first half, they look at fan/creator interaction...