tishaturk | (Reply)

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I know it's kinda gauche to link to yourself, but Louisa and I've been having these discussions as long as I can remember. I think in vidding it is more blatant than in fic, but even there we create a sort of canon and an implicit qualitative hierarchy, which is deeply problematic for a number of reasons--focus on female pleasure being one of them, but also the aesthetic value systems of complexity we often uncritically resurrect.

I spoke a little bit about canon last year at SCMS, and i think it fits right in with both your post and your essay itself :)