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PHOTOS from Phoenx Rising? PLEASE?
May. 20th, 2007 05:12 pmI'm desperately hunting for pics from the convention. Has anyone posted anything yet? I'd love to see the pics.
AND... has anyone reported on that "No Mary Sues in Slash" presentation? I want to see if that wench got what she deserved (harassment from educated slashers). Any reports? And if you don't know what I'm talking about in regards to that presentation, here's the summary:
No Mary Sues in Slash: Gender Envy in Erotic Fanfiction
Lelac Almagor
Slash writers often express contempt for the heterosexual Mary Sue story, which they perceive as “too close to the ‘sentimental love religion’ of the romance novel.” But I argue that slash fiction is in fact a more radical and less hopeful response to the same fear and worry surrounding female sexuality that motivates the heterosexual romance. Slash authors and audiences construct sexual power and success as impossible in a female body, but readily attainable in a male body. The hard question is whether the work of slash can contribute materially to the alleviation of the discontent it expresses.
AND... has anyone reported on that "No Mary Sues in Slash" presentation? I want to see if that wench got what she deserved (harassment from educated slashers). Any reports? And if you don't know what I'm talking about in regards to that presentation, here's the summary:
No Mary Sues in Slash: Gender Envy in Erotic Fanfiction
Lelac Almagor
Slash writers often express contempt for the heterosexual Mary Sue story, which they perceive as “too close to the ‘sentimental love religion’ of the romance novel.” But I argue that slash fiction is in fact a more radical and less hopeful response to the same fear and worry surrounding female sexuality that motivates the heterosexual romance. Slash authors and audiences construct sexual power and success as impossible in a female body, but readily attainable in a male body. The hard question is whether the work of slash can contribute materially to the alleviation of the discontent it expresses.
