'The way that some white K-pop journalists write about fandom + its culture perpetuate the narrative Black fans are fighting against currently…It feels like Black fans are collateral damage just to sell the idea of unity, fandom, and K-pop.' –106AndSeoul
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. “It's been dismissed and even stigmatized for a long time, but the things that people do in fandom are really amazing — whether it's writing novel-length stories that are better than a lot of published work, or building hugely successful platforms from scratch, or coordinating to help the world.
Epps-Robertson acknowledges the difficulty of having complex conversations on Twitter, where harassment is rampant and listening is uncommon, but she has seen some cases where they are happening. “As someone who studies rhetoric, in particular rhetoric connected to social justice, I’m most fascinated by the effort I’ve seen amongst ARMY who are working to have really complicated conversations online," Epps-Robertson says. "When there was a concerted and coordinated attempt to help trend #BlackLivesMatter, I saw efforts being made to help educate people on the movement and the larger history of race in America.
Perhaps non-participants will never wholly understand the distinct, paradoxical joys and disappointments at play in fandom, and conversations happening inside the fandom will always be more nuanced than those happening outside it. But fans themselves can take this momentum, however uncomfortable, and use it to enact actual change within their own circles. (
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