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- Nov 2021
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github.com github.com
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I hope you all will forgive my intrusion as a non-maintainer. Here's a perspective as a user:
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- Aug 2020
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www.indiebound.org www.indiebound.org
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Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World | IndieBound.org. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2020, from https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316418485
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- Jul 2020
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www.jstor.org www.jstor.org
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Only three interview subjects talked to me about their own erotic investment in the fandom, but I suspect that many others were more interested in having fun at FWA than in talk- ing to me about their sex lives. Although my official escort soon left me to proceed on my own, a few people approached me between interviews to make sure I was not up to anything objectionable. The most interesting of these was a graduate student in performance studies whom I met only in full fursuit and who checked my credentials with his major professor, an old friend of mine. I hope that this young scholar and amazing fur-suit dancer - he won the contest - will write about the fandom
There's a pervading distrust of reporters/outsiders at furry conventions. For a group that had their convention gassed (Midwest FurFest 2014), and regularly puts up with death threats of the internet and in real life, I wouldn't consider their scaredy-cat (forgive the pun) behavior all that surprising
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- Jul 2016
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Local file Local file
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My entry into these specific communities came through a naturally occurring chain of events. In each case, I knew an old-time resident in the community, and my relationship with that individual opened the community to me. I had grown up in a rural Piedmont area in a neighboring state, so the customs of both communities were very familiar to me
Wow- she was studying a region that she knew- and a topic that was near and dear to her heart. She truly had insider status, but was at once an outside-researcher. I'm curious to see how she balances this throughout the tenure of this project.
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