Posts in TWC Committee
The OTW is Recruiting for the Board Assistants Team, Fanlore, TWC, Support, Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution, and Volunteers & Recruiting
Are you detail-oriented and passionate about supporting meaningful work behind the scenes? Do you have an interest in preserving fannish history, wiki editing, or writing help documentation? Do you know your way around the platforms where fan studies conversations happen? Are you a senior PhD student (ABD) or an early career scholar? Would you like to help your fellow fans use AO3? Are you fluent in Spanish? Do you have experience with mediation, arbitration, or conflict resolution? Are you good at administrative tasks and working with people? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Board Assistants… Read more
OTW Signal, July 2026
Every month in OTW Signal, we take a look at stories that connect to the OTW’s mission and projects, including issues related to legal matters, technology, academia, fannish history and preservation issues of fandom, fan culture, and transformative works. In the News This June, the OTW joined several of our allies in signing a letter opposing the NO FAKES Act of 2026 in its current form. The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), which led the coalition, stressed that while they share concerns about harmful AI-generated replicas, the bill as currently proposed would harness the already-flawed Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice-and-takedown system to target… Read more
Transformative Works and Cultures Releases Issue No. 48
Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 48, a special issue on Disability and Fandom guest edited by Olivia Johnston Riley and Lauren Rouse. The essays in this special issue focus on disability both as a marginalised identity and as a critical scholarly approach to fandom and fan studies. It is a rich collection, featuring theory, case studies, and fannish meta on a broad array of issues and fandoms; there is also a review of Katherine Andersen Howell’s Disability and Fandom (U. Iowa, 2025). Other articles include: Contemplating the Neuroaffirmative Potential of Fandom Studies Digital Disability Aesthetics: Queer-Disabled Practices in Oral Notfic Fan fiction, disability,… Read more
Transformative Works and Cultures Releases Issue No. 47
Transformative Works and Cultures has released Issue No. 47, a special issue on Gaming Fandom guest edited by Hayley McCullough and Ashley P. Jones. Essays in this issue explore fan creativity in gaming fandoms and discuss a number of fan-made works and productions, including fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, mods, and fan-made games. Each issue includes articles representing theory, fannish meta, and book reviews, such as: Video game modifications as an extension of Jameson’s postmodernism: The case of Fallout: London The power of queer: Reimagining sexuality of female characters in “Genshin Impact” Slash fiction to mainstream: An analysis of strategies used for queering characters in League of… Read more
Transformative Works and Cultures Releases Issue No. 46
Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 46! In the opening editorial of this issue, the editors explain that the journal is focused on diversifying fan studies by diversifying “the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work” to work against “the existence of a sort of canon of fan studies scholarship”. Over the last year, the editors goal has been to “make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) and troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations” and this general issue continues to engage with that work. Each issue includes articles representing theory, fannish meta, and book reviews, such as the following: Disordered eating, disordered… Read more