what a wonderful essay on a topic that is still not sufficiently addressed in academic writing (i've seen articles as recent as 1 or 2 years ago, still giving the heterosexual women spiel). i love the quotes you were given, which reflect the amazingly high self-reflexiveness of fans, the ability to articulate experiences and contextualize them. personally, as a non-writer, i very much appreciated the way you connected fiction and analysis; creative and theoretical writings for the "bi-location."

in terms of the difficulties/resistance/disinterest in reading/writing f/f...i think there are a lot of things still to be discussed/uncovered.

your critique of lamb&veigh made me realize how i use them constantly in a kind of shorthanded form...i always agree with their description that slash is not about gay men...and forget that they then falsely (i'd agree) argue that it is not about queer women either...

anyway, this particular issue has been close to my heart, though i tend to come to it from the 'other' side...a straight woman who is fascinated by the queerness of writing porn with/for other women, getting off on one another's fantasies...i think there are many layers of queerness in slashdom...and the queer characters are definitely only the first level.

thank you for sharing!!!