Mel Stanfill, NYU Press author of Fandom is Ugly, was interviewed on NPR’s "It’s Been a Minute" about modern fandom, how Chappell Roan framed it as a conversation about gender, and what people misunderstand about celebrity.
Drawing on a corpus of angry social media posts, Fandom is Ugly finds that ugly moments happen when deep emotional attachments collide with social structures and situations that have been misunderstood. By holistically examining the forms of ugly fandom in cases that touch upon race, gender, and sexuality, Fandom is Ugly produces a comprehensive theory of the negative sides of fan attachments.
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