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Looking at nothing is seeing yourself
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Looking at nothing is seeing yourself
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speculative podcasts and fans imagining queer radical futures
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Londres
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Alexandria
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Alexandria Londres
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Brittney
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Brittney Cooper
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chair
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Kyla
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Kyla Schuller
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Rajan
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Julie
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Julie Rajan
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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This project analyzes three speculative podcasts and their fans' transformative works to demonstrate the ways in which together they imagine radical and queer futures. Spec-fic can be seen as a way to take back a future that is traditionally imagined without certain voices and bodies. Because podcasts are a solely audio medium without visual representations at all, bodies in this arrangement are brought in via fanworks. I use close reading to look at The Penumbra Podcast, 2016-; The Magnus Archives, 2016-; and The Bright Sessions, 2015-2018. This thesis asserts that speculative podcasts and their fans’ works build off of each other to envision the future, while also being complicated by contemporary discourse and understandings of race. Utilizing queer theory and fan studies, I argue that queer podcast creators create space within their audio medium for fans to continue to grow upon their stories. Fans then do so by bringing in (raced) bodies and visuals via fanworks. In this understanding, fanworks and fans themselves have changed understandings of the original media to create a collaborative version of the future.
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Fan studies
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Women`s and Gender Studies
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Londres
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Alexandria
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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