Stitch's Media Mix
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| Name: | Stitch's Media Mix |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Stitch |
| Dates: | March 2015- |
| Type: | Meta essays, media discourse, fanfiction and original fiction |
| Fandom: | Pan-fandom |
| URL: | https://stitchmediamix.com/ |
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Stitch's Media Mix is a website run by Stitch, a black fan and writer. She publishes fanfiction, original fiction, book reviews, and meta essays about fandom to the site, both in text and podcast/audio form.
In her meta essays, Stitch primarily writes about issues connected with race and fandom, the characterisation and perception of characters of colour, representation and erasure, toxic fandom, and fandom tropes and trends.
An introduction to Stitch's Media Mix from the blog:
Stitch’s Media Mix is a digital culture and arts publication focusing on real, down to earth critical analysis of international pop culture and the Western arm of the fandoms they spawn. Like it says on the label, we look at a mix of different media formats and artists, covering everything… eventually.
If you’re looking for insightful, sharp, and hard-to-ignore coverage of your favorite media… or media fandoms –
Start reading today!
The website is supported by Patreon donations, alongside other donation channels including Ko-Fi, Squarecash and PayPal.
Stitch's Media Mix was previously also on Tumblr as stitchmediamix, but appears to have been taken down. The blog is archived on the Wayback Machine.
Post Series
- Urban Fantasy 101: A post series exploring how urban fantasy and the tropes it relies on can be inaccessible and harmful to people who are not cisgender, queer people and people of colour
- The Great Big Anita Blake Reread
- Letters to the Author
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary Sue
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: (Not-So) Sexy Slavefic
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Only 33 Words in a Trailer
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Beige Blank Slates
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Migratory Slash Fandom's Focus
- Fandom's Race Problem (currently on hiatus)
- Stitch Talks Tropes (a Patreon-exclusive podcast series)
Other Notable Posts
- Dear Comic Fans: We Get it. You’re racist and racebending scares you.
- Slash Shipping, Pseudo-Progressivism, and Reinforcing Patriarchal Standards in Fandom
- Fantastic Beasts & Invisible Diversity in the Harry Potter Series
- Black Ladies Deserve Love Too: Lupita Nyong’o, Concern Trolling, and White Feminism
- Fear of Fucking Up: Not Actually A Good Excuse For Erasing Characters of Color
- “What if a white guy played Black Panther?”: The Fake Concern of Fake Geek Guys
- What It’s Like Being Fandom Critical While Black
- In Fandom, All Villains Aren’t Treated Equally
- Queer Coded Villains Aren’t That Awesome
- Stitch Talks Toxic Fandom