Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2020: Week 14

Your Vagina is a Bigot; My Vagina is a Saint is a 16,218-word meta essay by Franzeska that was posted to the AO3 under archive-lock in 2016.

It sparked an extensive debate and also received a great deal of criticism from fans over the way it appeared to dismiss valid concerns about fandom racism and sexism, its defence of slash fans' white character-centric shipping choices and characterisation of the act of writing characters of colour as "joyless", the insistence that concerns over a perceived lack of femslash were unfounded because femslash was heavily present in certain fandoms, its framing of fandom history, and much more.

Author's Summary: Bullying and the Co-opting of Social Justice Activism in Fandom: A discussion of bias in fannish meta, m/m vs. other pairings, shipping of POC, vidding characters of color, what it means to ship, and problems in Stormpilot fandom.