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| Online Convention | |
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| Name: | FujoCon |
| Dates: | 2020-present |
| Frequency: | yearly |
| Type: | online con |
| Focus: | Boys' Love |
| Organization: | BL Garden |
| Founder: | |
| URL: | Con website BL Garden website |
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FujoCon is an annual online boys' love convention. The convention uses Discord, Zoom, Conline, and Twitch as platforms. The convention's "about" page describes itself and its mission:
FujoCon is an international, BL+ virtual convention dedicated to sharing our love of BL with the global community as we all stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Our mission is to share our love of BL with the global community and to connect fans with top BL creators, academics, and content. We provide adult fans and creators a safe and fun space to share art, cosplay, and panels with one another through a virtual environment. FujoCon brings the convention experience online–for free–so everyone, regardless of where you live, can experience a BL con from the safety of their own homes while we continue to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Our motto is “ship and let ship” and we expect our attendees to honor that. We do not condone nor tolerate any hateful behavior and will remove any attendees who display any sort of misconduct.What is FujoCon? [1]
FujoCon describes its scope as being "BL+", which it defines as encompassing:
- Boys' love / yaoi manga, anime, movies, and series
- Gei comi
- LGBT manga and anime
- Slash and BL fan works (fanart, fanfic, doujinshi, etc)
- MM Romance original works
- BL-adjacent anime & manga (such as sports, male-idols, etc)
- Fujoshi and shipping culture
- Cosplay, itabagging, and fandom fashion
- Women & queer voices in fandom[2]
2020
The first FujoCon was held July 10-12. 2020. The theme was "Set Sail".[3] In addition to panels, events included games, watch parties, a cosplay contest, and fan meets. Some panel topics included:
- The Bitches of Boys’ Love Comics: When BL Becomes "Porno"
- The Art of Show, Not Tell in Writing
- IneffableCon Presents: Ineffable Husbands
- Anime RIVALS: the Queer Subtext of a Sworn Nemesis
- Digital Boys' Love (BL) Manga Publishing with futekiya featuring Ayu Yamane
- Welcome to the Wonderful World of Thai Boys’ Love Media!
- Toward a History of BL
- From Fanfiction to Published Author
- Beyond World Building
- Language of Textiles
- M/M Romance Author Round Table
- Fanzines 101
- Ship & Let Ship
- Itabag Economics
- LGBTQ+ Representation in Anime and Manga
- The Church of Yaoi Presents: Yaoi That Hurt Me
- Hide and Seke! The History and Subversion of the Seme/Uke Dynamic
- Learning Japanese with Yaoi
- Romancing the Past: Japan's Rekijo and their Samurai Love
- Yuri!!! on Ice: Boundary Breaker, History Maker
- History of Bara and Gei comi
- Gay in PreModern Japan
- This panel was presented by Aeri, Aeri then passed around their reference booklist and many of their slides afterwards which were passed around widely by those who were interested in the subject and or attended the convention. For example, a twitter link, (archived).
- FukaBoku - The Queer Manga That Looks Cute but Cuts Deep
- Fan’s Fan: Making a Cheering Uchiwa[4]
2021
The second FujoCon was held June 11-13. 2021. The theme was "Make a Splash".[5] In addition to panels, events included games, watch parties, crafting, a cosplay challenge, and fan meets. Some panel topics included:
- 2.5 Stage—Anime, Video Games, and Live Action, Oh My!—When Animation Makes It To The Stage
- 3D BL: The Commodification of Real Person Slash
- BL Desam: Boys Love Fandom in the Subcontinent
- BL in Non-BL Industries
- But We're Both Men! BL Cliches, Why Are They There? Where Did They Come From?
- Digital Fanthropology: A Deep Dive Into Early ’00s Era Fan Communities
- Fujoshi Bait: The Integration of Boys Love Literacies in Mainstream Japanese Media and Beyond
- Gateway Queer: Genderqueer Identities and M/M Romance
- Gundam Wing: The Hot, the Weird, the WHAT?!
- What's New is Old: Save Your Smut
- Y Series Update: Unpacking the Latest in BL in Thailand
- Consent and Rape Fantasy in Boys Love Manga: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ From the 1970s to Today
- Genderless Men: Androgyny in Japanese Fashion and Media
- Gravitation: A Force to Be Reckoned With
- M/M Author Round Table
- MLM: Men Love Monsters???
- Parodies of Male Same-Sex Love in The Great Mirror of Male Love and Zetsuai 1989
- Proper Fujo Etiquette: How to Be the Very Best Fujoshi
- What It's Like to Sell BL Art Online & Artist Alley
- Yuri!!! on Ice in / and the Fandom Contact Zone
- Fujo is Not a 4-Letter Word: Destigmatizing the BL Genre
- Gay Karate Bugmen: A Rotten History of Toei's Super Hero Time
- Morality in Boys Love Dramas
- “Pinoy” BL: Introduction to Filipino Language BL in the Philippines
- Yaoi!!! on ICE: Watching Sports Anime as Fujoshi[6]
2022
The third FujoCon will be held June 35-26, 2022. The theme is "To the Stars".[7]