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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: We Need to Talk About Fandom
Description: [School of Movies 2019]
A long-planned show, following up on "Fan Response" in 2013 which can be found on the School of Everything Else Archive. Things were becoming problematic back then and now, six years later, matters are worse.
This is a show all about examining where we each stand in our fandoms and dispelling the binary, black and white "You are either with us or against us" mentality which has cultivated a climate of extreme feeling that we are bombarded with every day. It's not about exclusion, it's about reclaiming nuance and being comfortable having mixed f...