LeakyCon's value lies in its participants’ willingness to forgo boundaries and to explore what new connections happen as a result of creative mergers and blendings.
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Embracing Fan Creativity in Transmedia Storytelling (LeakyCon Portland)
Inspiring Fans at LeakyCon Portland
Part 5 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon explores the ways fans and their creative labors influence the work of stars and producers of source texts.
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From LGBT to GSM: Gender and Sexual Identity among LeakyCon’s Queer Youth (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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Fans and Stars and Starkids (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 3 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon focuses on the production of fandom by the "Starkids" theater troupe as well as those fans who call themselves simply "Starkids."
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On Wearing Two Badges: Indifference and Discomfort of a Scholar Fan (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 2 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon focuses on the struggles of being both an academic and a fan.
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LeakyCon Portland: Where the Fangirls Are
The following series of articles--written by myself, Louisa Stein, and Lindsay Giggey--represents our analysis of some (by no means all) of the cultural work of LeakyCon Portland 2013.
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