Open AccessLatina fans agitate respectability: Rethinking antifans and antifandom
Author(s) -
Yessica Garcia Hernandez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2019.1623
Subject(s) - human sexuality , deviance (statistics) , gender studies , sociology , ethnic group , hermeneutics , anthropology , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , machine learning
This piece proposes that the fields of ethnic studies, fat studies, and sexuality studies (with a focus on racialized sexualities) can help us think about antifans and antifandom from a different lens. I utilize identity hermeneutics to analyze some of my own fan sites that center fat women of color, nonnormative sexualities, and Latina deviance. I offer the heuristic of agitation and agitated discourse to think through the hater (antifan) comments that Latinas encounter online about their fat racialized flesh.