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Fansplaining is a podcast about by, for, and about fandom: not A fandom, but fandom and fan culture in general. How are fans making an impact on pop culture? On industry? How has fandom chan...
Fansplaining is a podcast about by, for, and about fandom: not A fandom, but fandom and fan culture in general. How are fans making an impac...
Huge news!! Fansplaining is becoming a full-on weekly publication, with a wide range of writing (and audio! and art!) by, for, and about fan...
Our final article of 2025 is here! Kayti Burt—who first wrote for us last spring, in a fantastic piece on the precarity of being a fandom jo...
Our November piece is here! Newt Albiston's essay is one part guide to fandom text-based roleplaying, one part meditation on working through...
Our October piece is part essay/part excerpt: Meghan Fitzmartin, who's written for DC Comics, Supernatural, and many other fan-favorite prop...
September's piece is by longtime fandom journalist Aja Romano, on the explosion of Kpop Demon Hunters , and its intersections—or lackthereof...
Our August piece is by novelist (and Fansplaining SDCC 2025 panelist!) Tessa Gratton, about navigating the intersections of the fan and pro...
Fansplaining returned to San Diego Comic-Con this year (our tenth anniversary!) with a fantastic panel of fandom folks who work in pro enter...
Our latest piece is about making fanworks—and fandom friendships—last through the decades! "How Friendships Onscreen and Off Fueled Half a C...
This month's Fansplaining piece is a bit of a departure from our usual fandom reporting and critical analysis: for the first time, we're ver...
In our newest piece, Sacha Judd goes deep on RPF, tracing it back decades and tackling its thorny intersections with other kinds of fan prac...
Our latest piece is by Amanda-Rae Prescott, who was one of the expert guests in our "Race and Fandom" series back in 2020! ( https://www.fan...
Gav is back in Fansplaining in 2025! This time, she writes about Sam Wilson's recent Captain America debut—and how the MCU failed both the c...
Our first article of 2025 is here—and it's a big one! "The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom" by Lena Barkin: Blake's 7 fans and actors...
Around this time in December, we usually wrap up Fansplaining with " The Year in Fandom ": a look back at five trends from the prior year fo...
Our latest article is by Abby Kirby, who writes about her experiences teaching fanfiction to middle schoolers: " Fic does something that my...
We're excited to welcome back Allegra Rosenberg, who's written a new article for us on contemporary Beatles fandom: "The Beatles Live! New g...
Our newest article is "The Scream Fandom's Enduring Divide" by Michael Boyle: Nearly a year after star Melissa Barrera was fired for pro-Pal...
Our newest article is "The Acolyte's Squandered Potential" by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw: The show brought a whole new set of fans to a stagnating...
Our newest article is "The Traumatized Gatekeepers of Broadway" by Laura Wheatman Hill: Theatre fans measure their passion by nitpicking. Do...
Our first piece in this new era of Fansplaining is "The Yellow Balloon Movement" by Maria Temming: Within jam band fandoms often dominated b...
After nine years of collaborating on Fansplaining, Flourish and Elizabeth mark Flourish's final regular episode by casting back to the state...
Flourish's final "Ask Fansplaining Anything" episode follows the format of the previous 18 (!!), with a new batch of (thoughtful as ever!) l...
On Episode 221, "Self-Inserts," Elizabeth and Flourish welcome fan studies scholar Effie Sapuridis to talk about the wide world of self-inse...
On Episode 220, "The Fan-Journalist," Flourish and Elizabeth welcome one particular fan-journalist—Kayti Burt—to discuss her recent article...
Episode 219, "Tropefest Speedrun," kicks off with a big announcement: as you might have guessed with Flourish a few months away from a) givi...
Following previous installments on the thorny intersections of money and fanfiction, Episode 218, "The Money Question 3: Books???" tackles t...
On Episode 217, "Fanbinding," Elizabeth and Flourish talk to Tiffo (aka Fanboundbooks) about the art of turning fanfiction into physical boo...
On Episode 216, "Allegra Rosenberg," Elizabeth and Flourish talk to the fandom journalist and Terror Camp organizer about her journey from t...
In Episode 215, "The Broken Contract," Flourish and Elizabeth look at the sorry state of television in 2024, where the streaming revolution...
In the newest installment of the long-running "Ask Fansplaining Anything" series, Flourish and Elizabeth tackle a fresh batch of listener co...
As they do every December, Elizabeth and Flourish revisit the previous year's fandom retrospective, and then turn to the biggest fan culture...
In Episode 212, "Fandom Truthiness," Elizabeth and Flourish break down the recent pair of (GREAT) video essays on James Somerton, a YouTuber...
In Episode 211, "The Copyright Conundrum," Flourish and Elizabeth welcome prolific fic writer and copyright expert EarlGreyTea68 back to the...
On Episode 210, "The RPF Tipping Point," Elizabeth and Flourish welcome back Grace and the Fever author Zan Romanoff to talk about her new p...
In the newest (17th!) installment of the "Ask Fansplaining Anything" series, Flourish and Elizabeth read a mix of responses to recent episod...
In Episode 208, "What Fans Owe Each Other," Flourish and Elizabeth share a letter from longtime friend-of-the-pod Destination Toast about wh...
In Episode 207, "Paul Cornell," Flourish and Elizabeth talk to the eponymous writer (of a bazillion different things) (seriously, look at hi...
Woobies, poor little meow meows, anti-heroes, and problematic faves: in Episode 206, "Bad Fans Revisited," Flourish and Elizabeth use a list...
In Episode 205, "Fanfluencers," Flourish and Elizabeth use a listener voicemail on fan screenings for Red, White & Royal Blue to dive into a...
Flourish and Elizabeth celebrate their eighth (!) anniversary with eight (!) guest responses to their traditional query: What changes and tr...
In Episode 203, "Solidarity and SDCC," Elizabeth debriefs Flourish on a very unusual San Diego Comic-Con: one held during the parallel WGA a...
In Episode 202, "Dylan Marron," Elizabeth and Flourish talk to the creator and host of the new (and very fandomy!) podcast, The Redemption o...
Following closely on the heels of last December's "Artificial Fandom Intelligence" episode, Elizabeth and Flourish bring you the extremely d...
For their 200th!!!! episode, Elizabeth and Flourish are joined by artist, author, and longtime Fansplaining collaborator (and fan!) Maia Kob...
In Episode 199, "Reflecting Reality?" Flourish and Elizabeth tackle a trio of listener questions on the ways fanfiction does—and doesn't—mir...
In Episode 198, "Strikesplaining," Elizabeth and Flourish are joined by screenwriter, executive producer, and longtime friend of the podcast...
In Episode 197, Flourish and Elizabeth welcome back Stitch, the media critic and fandom journalist who was one of their original "Race and F...
In yet another (the sixteenth!) installment of "Ask Fansplaining Anything," Flourish and Elizabeth discuss a fresh batch of listener questio...
In Episode 195, "Fandom Life Cycles," Elizabeth and Flourish respond to a voicemail from listener Gin/myrmidryad about their appreciation of...