Open AccessReimagining fan studies in the age of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter
Author(s) -
Aya Hayashi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2020.2029
Subject(s) - injustice , covid-19 , racism , white (mutation) , pandemic , face (sociological concept) , hurricane katrina , social injustice , political science , sociology , criminology , media studies , gender studies , history , geography , law , politics , social science , natural disaster , chemistry , pathology , virology , outbreak , biology , biochemistry , medicine , disease , meteorology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , gene
We in the United States are living in the midst of two pandemics: Covid-19, which is affecting communities of color at an absurdly disproportionate rate, and a renewed spate of murders of Black people at the hands of police. They reveal the depths of racial inequity and injustice in our country. This is a crisis—a turning point where many of us are wondering what we can do better and how we can be better. For us in fan studies, will we finally face the white supremacy embedded in our discipline and take steps to become an antiracist discipline?