Fansplaining is a podcast about fandom.

Fans have never been more visible in mainstream culture—but what does it really mean to be a fan, or to be part of a fandom? Since 2015, Fansplaining has been digging into the conversations shaping fan culture, from intersections with the entertainment industry to depictions in the media to conflict within fandom itself. Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel talk to writers, academics, fan creators, entertainment industry professionals, and more, and new episodes come out every two weeks.

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Photograph of Flourish and Elizabeth cheersing with beers
 

Flourish Klink started reading X-files fanfic 20 years ago and hasn’t come up for air since. They co-founded FictionAlley.org and helped run the HPEF Harry Potter conferences for years, and every once in a while, writing some fanfic. They also earned a master’s degree studying fan culture with Dr. Henry Jenkins at MIT. For ten years, they worked in the entertainment industry, explaining fans to the Powers That Be. Today, they’re a student at Union Theological Seminary, working towards ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church. They live in the East Village with their husband Nick. Find them at flourishklink.com and twitter.com/flourish.

Elizabeth Minkel spent close to two decades lurking in fandom—and the past few years speaking up about fandom as much as she could. She’s a writer, editor, and consultant, and her (mostly fandom-related) writing has been published by The Guardian, The New Yorker, the New Statesman, WIRED, The Verge, and more. (She’s also written a whole lot of fanfic…) She studied the intersections of the humanities and digital technologies—around fandom in particular—while earning a master’s degree at University College London. She also curates the Hugo-finalist(!) fandom newsletter “The Rec Center” with fellow fandom journalist Gavia Baker-Whitelaw. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Orlando. Find her at elizabethminkel.com and twitter.com/elizabethminkel.

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