Timeline of Femslash Meta

This page lists meta and other written discussion about femslash, arranged in chronological order.

Also see Timeline of Slash Meta for meta with a male/male focus.

90s

1997

• Why I Am A Subtextite by rabbit133, posted to Whoosh! (November, 1997)

1998

• Spinning Off From The Source: Alternative Fan Fiction Changes With The Seasons by Christine Boese, posted to Whoosh! (October, 1998)
• The Sex Lives of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors, posted to Whoosh! (October, 1998)
• Romancing the Fan: Romance and Xena Fan Fiction by J.C. Winter, posted to Whoosh! (October, 1998)

1999

• The Subtext Anxiety by Shomeret (November 21, 1999)
• WHAT IS THIS...ÜBER?, article at Whoosh! (July 3, 1999)

00s

2000

• The Other Side: Writing Alternative Xena Fan Fiction from a Male Point of View by Rooks, posted to Whoosh! (July, 2000)
• Don't Mind the Ladies: Lesbian Fanfic as an Old-Fashioned Romance by Bongo Bear, posted to Whoosh! (September, 2000)

2001

• Xena & Gabrielle In Your First Period Psychology Class: Trends In Uber Fan Fiction by Rachel Gordon, posted to Whoosh! (February, 2001)
• The Use of Cliche in Alternative Fan Fiction With a Focus on Xena by Katia Davis, posted to Whoosh! (May, 2001)

2002

• How To Write A Typical Über by invidere, posted to Whoosh! (August, 2002)
• The Death of Tara, the Fall of Willow and The Dead/Evil Lesbian Cliché FAQ by willowlicious and kyraroc (September 8, 2002)
• (Re)Making Space for Women by Nova, published in Sleer as Folk (2002)

2003

• Some Thoughts on Femslash by Kadorienne (January 25, 2003)
• Where's all the good femslash? Does anybody know?, ^{Archived version} (December 1, 2003)
• Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media Fandom by Judith L. Tabron (December 2003)

2004

• Femslash, Patriarchy, and the Evils of Glossing (2004-2006)
• In which Lasair and Anna Maria debate Extremely Important Things by lasultrix and anna_maria (March, 2004)
• The Femslash Debate by runetraverse (March, 2004)

2005

• M/M vs. F/F by tehlils (January 11, 2005)
• Femslash - Feminism, Women, and Potterverse by volsi (September 26, 2005)

2006

• Fan Fiction Comes Out of the Closet (January 4, 2006)
• Femslash and wicked (January 28, 2006)
• Why do femslash? by animimares (March 19, 2006)
• Community, Identity, and Femslash by viciouswishes (August 1, 2006)
• Follow Up on the Femslash; archive link by viciouswishes (August 5, 2006)
• Is it just "where the women are"? by tellitslant (August 9, 2006)
• Femslash - Readers, Writers and LJ by trancer21 (August 7, 2006)
• Meta (do you know what you’re missing) by fox1013 (September 29, 2006)

2007

• There's Nothing Only About Being With Girls (or, Is Slashing Sarah Jane an Anti-Feminist Activity?) (January 21, 2007)
• Thoughts (femslash meta) by alixtii (February 3, 2007)
• Why is there so little geeky academic discussion of femslash? by carmarthen (February 20, 2007)
• Why Femslash Is Different, Part 1,001 by alixtii (April 5th, 2007)
• Is it a law that you have to be lesbian to write Femslash? by runetraverse (September 13, 2007)
• Femslash (meta essay) by monalovely (November 27, 2007)

2008

• Why? -- A Not-Remotely-Complete Investigation of the "Why Slash/Why Het/Why Femslash" Debate (14 February, 2008)
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (meta essay) by BradyGirl (February 18, 2008)

2009

• Genderswaps in Fanfic - Looking For A Femslash Perspective by havocthecat (January 22, 2009)
• The State of Femslash: January 2009 by twtd (January 25, 2009)
• Femslash Fandom: Thoughts/Questions on Insularity by cleo2584 (January 25, 2009)
• Why should girlslash be more like boyslash? No, seriously, why? by havocthecat (January 26, 2009)
• Why do we femslash? by alias sqbr (January 27, 2009)
• Meta: Sort of. Lots of pointless rambling, bits of snark. by lyssie (January 27, 2009)
• Femslash: cross it up by branchandroot (January 28, 2009)
• Fan Art Empowers Queer Women (February 18, 2009)
• Butch Visibility and Femslash by trancer21 (5 March, 2009)
• Femslash Fanfic & Feedback (May 11, 2009)
• I'm just experimenting - f/f fanfiction through the eyes of a fence-sitter by thelana (July 12, 2009)
• Professional Lesbians... and Fanfic. (December 30, 2009)

10s

2010

• The flip side. ("Pickering, why can't a woman be more like a man?") by bookshop (January 13, 2010)
• Where are the femslash epics? by staranise (January 31, 2010)
• Fannish spaces, girls, and the culture of silence. by bookshop (May 10, 2010)
• Do futanari and genderswap have a place in femslash? by tinnefoil (May 15, 2010)
• Confessions of a frustrated femslasher by ar (May 31, 2010)
• Picking the Collective Femslash Brain: Femslash as a Fandom by dagas_isa (September 23, 2010)
• I can't decide if this is meta or a rant... by lyssie (November 19, 2010)

2011

• 8 Hypotheses for why f/f stories are more conservative than other types of fanfic by dagas_isa (April 27, 2011)
• Defining femslash: what does the term mean to you? by aron_kristina (April 29, 2011)
• Asexuality and Femslash by snowynight (May, 2011)
• Where 're the femslash little black dress by snowynight (May 8, 2011)
• Looking at the Supernatural femslash on AO3: numbers, tags, etc. (August 55, 2011)
• "How to write femslash part 1: Lesbian Sex 101". Archived from the original on 2015-04-23. (September 20, 2011)

2012

• Lovers in a Dangerous Time (femslash meta) (April 29, 2012)
• Femslash and hurt/comfort by snowynight (May 4, 2012)
• Mini-meta on writing femslash set in difficult eras or locations (May 13, 2012)
• Why smart lesbians read (and write) fan fiction (July 17, 2012) (version archived Oct 29 2020, retrieved Oct 31 2021 - original link dead)

2013

• {meta} Oh Femslash, how I love thee... by ariestess (February 1, 2013)
• Notes on a Fandom: Fan/Fic/Tion (February 13, 2013)
• Femslash Fandoms and Queer-baiting: Another Perspective by reversatility (July 9, 2013)
• It’s complicated: possible reasons for the lack of femslash by centrumlumina (August 29, 2013)
• What do I want from femslash? I'm in it for the characterization., ^{Archived version} by havocthecat (August 9, 2013)
• To what extent does femslash perpetuate the white gaze? (November 17, 2013)
• What makes a big femslash fandom? Alternately, what makes you interested in a fandom's femslash? by havocthecat (Dec 13)

2014

• Femslash and Fandom (January 18, 2014)
• Putting the "F" Back in Fanfiction: K-pop Femslash (March 28, 2014)
• Why DO you write(/read) fanfic with female characters? or: Why DO you write(/read) femmeslash? (May 3, 2014)
• No Pairing Left Behind: The function of lesbian fanfiction in conversation with mainstream media by BooklandReeve (July 22, 2014)
• Anti-racist principles and practices in femslash fandom (July 26, 2014)
• Femslash Can Save the World If We Let It (July 29, 2014)
• Rule 63 and femslash within fandom by intransitive (October 23, 2014)
• Add lesbians by unitofcaring (Nov 5, 2014)
• Japan: Fertile Ground for the Cultivation of Yuri by Rica Takashima (2014)

2015

• "Because it seems like you guys hate on slash a lot..." Archived from the original on 2015-11-05. (January 20, 2015)
• Femslash: Demystifying Fandom’s Gender Disparity by lierdumoa (August 17, 2015)
• Femslash gothic by disregardcanon (Oct)
• Why the Femslash Gap? (October 18, 2015)
• Femslash culture and trolling: how to keep the space safe (November 17, 2015)
• An open letter to the femslash fandom by forgetthesun (December 31, 2015)

2016

• Your Vagina is a Bigot, My Vagina is a Saint by Franzeska (April 25, 2016)
• "The History of Femslash, the Tiny Fandom That's Taking Over the Universe". Archived from the original on 2016-04-15. (August 4, 2016)
• Is TV show migration hurting queer fandom? (November 28, 2016)
• I’m quitting Femslash Fandom (December 11, 2016)
• Ladies First podcast by The Fandomentals first airs: Episodes often include discussions about femslash fandoms, tropes, and communities (November 6, 2016)

2017

• I Am Femslash: A series of 11 essays posted to Femslash Revolution by different fans. (February 3-25, 2017)
• Violence in M/M Vs. F/F (February 3, 2017)
• Yuri isn't Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans (November 27, 2017)

2018

• Femslash, Canon, and Fannish Strength (February 14, 2018)
• Yuri made me human (May 2018)
• Unpopular f/f opinion (July 2018)
• DC Bombshells: Professional Femslash (November 2018)
• Interrogating one's preferences: the femslash gap (December 9, 2018)
• Top 30 Femslash ships in 2018 on AO3 (January 6, 2019)

20s

2020

• Trends in Femslash Fancontent?, archive.fo (June 2, 2020)
• 'Fix-it fiction' gives queer women the happy endings they deserve (June 30, 2020)
• This is what Femslash is to me (October 12, 2020)

2021

• Fansplaining: Writing Women, a podcast episode interviewing meta writer breathedout (February 17, 2021)

2024

• Yaoi Zine Vol. 3: Yuri Zine is published; it contains a lot of femslash and yuri meta (January 2024)