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The Yellow Balloon Movement by Maria Temming

Within jam band fandoms often dominated by substance use, clean and sober fans are building their own communities

Fansplaining — a podcast and publication by, for, and about fandom — published a thoroughly reported piece, in both text and audio, about mutual aid and peer support for recovering addicts and alcoholics in jam band fandom. The Grateful Dead set the pattern for musicians who celebrate substance use while creating a nomadic community of listeners. Maria Temming dives deep into when and how clean and sober fans are building safe spaces within these communities:

( 365-word excerpt forom 4000-word article )

jesse_the_k

Disability and/in/through Fanfiction is the theme of the current issue Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Vol 8 No 2 (2019). It’s available free online PDF/HTML

http://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/26

Topics of possible interest to community members include

fic as a gateway to disabled lives
hurt/comfort bingo
non-disabled fans creating disability-theme fic
keywords and search discovery: when you’re looking for disability and all you find is impairment

Articles I appreciated with sample paragraphs

( writing varies from vernacular to academic )

jazzyjj

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