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a comic on growing up and fan epistemology

May 27, 2022 Incite Institute at Columbia University

When Isabel Machado spoke to our class last November, my co-facilitators and I asked her about how being a fan of the drag artists she interviews figures into her work. She spoke of passing power to her narrators through her awe, studying by being, and her meta-interest in drag fandom, which will be the subject of her next project. Her notes on fandom, intimacy, embodiment, and study returned me to my early adolescence, during which I simultaneously discovered k-pop and the concept of archiving (though oral historians and archivists distinguish between archiving, collecting, and hoarding, and what I did is probably most appropriately described as the latter). This is a comic on the relationship between some of those things as I experienced them.

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