Hope That Holds.

Well, yeah, clearly it's only one aspect, but I asked for queer women as participants because a) it was a queer studies class and 2) I know a lot of us have been kind of chafing under years' worth of articles about slash that specifically focus on slashers' heterosexuality and the dynamic of sexual attraction that writers have for their male characters. So I wanted to do -- at least in the slash section of the paper -- something a little bit different by saying, okay, that's one way that a writer's heterosexuality can affect how she uses the text and what she does in fandom, but women who aren't heterosexual are just as affected in what we do by our sexuality. So the goal of the paper was to begin thinking about how we're affected. No offense, but to vary my participant base to include your experience as a heterosexual fan would have been to defeat the whole purpose of writing it to start with *g*

Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.