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Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent
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| Academic Commentary | |
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| Title: | Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent |
| Commentator: | Milena Popova |
| Date(s): | 2021 |
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| Fandom: | panfandom |
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Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent is a 2021 book by Milena Popova.
Popova offers a close reading of three fanfiction stories in the Omegaverse genre, examines the “arranged marriage” trope, and discusses the fanfiction community's response when a sports star who was a leading character in RPF (real person fiction) was accused of rape. Proposing that fanfiction offers a powerful discursive resistance on issues of rape and consent that challenges dominant discourses about gender, romance, sexuality, and consent, Popova shows that fanfiction functions as a form of cultural activism.[1]
The term "dubcon" refers to fanworks involving sex of "dubious consent". This indicates that consent is unknown, not established with certainty, or gained through questionable circumstances.