Imagining Sex Between White Men: Slash Fanfiction and the Racial Politics of Feminist Fantasy
Imagining Sex Between White Men: Slash Fanfiction and the Racial Politics of Feminist Fantasy
Slash fan fiction emerged in the 1970s as a genre of informally published romantic and erotic fiction about sexual relationships between male science fiction television characters, and has been claimed as a feminist practice since its early days. Part of a larger project on the politics of fantasy in m/m fan fiction, this talk takes up slash as a racial formation, asking how it is that white male bodies in sexual congress became a site of feminist fantasy. Slash demonstrates the extent to which white supremacy has contributed to conceptualizations of feminist and queer erotics, even as it also opens spaces that allow us to ask when, how, and whether a speculative erotics of white masculinity might have something to contribute to intersectional feminisms.
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