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Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Gayle F and Caren P

In 2013, Caren P and Gayle F were interviewed by Morgan Dawn as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:14:55. 
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* art commissions
* Star Trek, Miami Vice, Wiseguy, Starsky & Hutch
* the zines Interphase, Obsc'zine, The Price and The Prize
* vidding
* zines, online fanworks
* Vulcan Genitalia
* fan art
* becoming a fan
==Excerpts==
===About Becoming a Fan===
===Canon and Fanon===
===Getting Started, Creating Fanworks===
===Commissions, and Technique===
===Spock's Unique Appendage===
===Vidding===
===Online Fiction, Zines===
===Female Characters, Slash===
===Fan Casting===
===Multifannish, and The Forbidden===
===Looking Back and Second Thoughts===
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category: Vidder Interviews
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Jan Levine

In 2012, Jan Levine was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 46:32. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* hurt/comfort
* the zines The Other Side of the Coin, The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard, The Cost of the Cheeseboard, Code 7 
* Allamagoosa Press
* Virgule-L
* Lysator
* Blake's 7
* The Professionals
* Alexfandra's Pros Fanfic Angst Viewed As a Five-Star Thai Menu
* making a distinction among “sf fandom,” “Star Trek fandom,” and “media fandom”
* the proliferation of slash, and gen, mailing lists
* slash as underground
* Interstate Writing Group Workshop AKA the Scribblies
* Yuletide 
* vids
* Fannish Gift Economy
* Jane of Australia, The Hunting, Doyle as an elf stories
* warnings
* deathfic
* Bill Hupe, Peg Kennedy, and Operation 'Zine Rescue
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Category:Blake's 7 Fan Interviews
Category:The Professionals Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Jane Mailander

In 2017, Jane Mailander was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 2:25:43.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. 
==Some Topics Discussed==
* becoming a Star Trek: TOS fan, becoming a slash fan
* Pat Stall's artwork
* the Roddenberry Footnote and what it meant for someone growing up in the Catholic church and the church's anti-homosexual stand
* fandom is “socialization for the antisocial"
* various cons: ConSonance, LosCon, various Worldcons, Con Diego, Koon-ut-Cali-Con, Alternate Press Expo
* the Livejournal community called Watson's Woes and one of its fic prompts: Watson’s Woes Prompt Fest
* other Livejournal communities: holmes_minor (500-word stories), Sherlock 60 (60 word stories), Homeless Miner (original Holmes)
* being a fan of The Sentinel, Star Trek: TOS, Star Wars, all versions of Sherlock Holmes
* discussion about some of Mailander's Professionals fic: The Land-Bridge Saga, Permanent Change, Tea and Bitching 
* the trope we’re not gay; we just love each other
* Virgule-L and Senad mailing lists
* being at Minotaur's panels at cons, being at room parties with him
* migrating from Livejournal to Dreamwidth due to its change in ownership
* the difficulties and joys of communicating with fans before the internet
* Tumblr moves too fast
* why so many women in fandom identify as queer/not straight
* being in the con skit Pair 'o Strokers
* "[Comic-Con was] like the geek Super Bowl because it used to be just comics and comics writers and then George Lucas popped in to show this new film he was doing in 1977, and he’s the one who ruined it all! That’s what turned it into the actors and directors debut con rather than a Comic-Con." 
* comments about some ship wars: The Ray Wars, The Force Awakens controversy regarding Finn, Rey, Poe
==Excerpts==
 
 
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Sherlock Holmes
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Joan Marie Verba

In 2017, Joan Marie Verba was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 3.20.08.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Ruth Berman, whom she met in 1969, was her first fannish contact
* collating T-Negative at Berman's house
* the Detroit Triple Fan Fair in 1972 was Verba's first Star Trek con
* being involved with the Star Trek Welcommittee, answering mail
* Shirley Maiewski felt the internet was a "very evil place" where "horrible things happened to people online," which was part of the decision to let the STW lapse after information became available online; Maiewski didn't want to make that jump; another reason was the STW's info had become too slow and redundant with the advent of online fandom
* much description of Boldly Writing, see that page
* some discussion of mimeo and offset zine productions and preferences
* APAs mentioned: MinneAPA, SippleAPA, CAPRA
* buying patterns from Lincoln Enterprises to make costumes
* running the fan club for Siddig El Fadil, later Alexander Siddig
* running BlooMN'Con, see that page
* Verba rated the Treks according to quality: "I would rank Deep Space Nine first, Next Generation second, Star Trek: The Original Series third, and the animations, Voyager fourth, and Enterprise fifth."
* correspondence and connections to Henry Jenkins during the writing of Textual Poachers
* tensions between Trek fans/fandom and literary science fiction fans/fandom
* the scandal of Trek fanfiction being nominated for a Hugo
* about "media tie-in" writing
* Verba's Thunderbird's media tie-in writing
* the rise of labels and warnings
* the beginning of published explicit fanfiction and art
* the The SekWester*Con Porn Debate
* the Kelvin Timeline and the new Trek movies
* Marion Zimmer Bradley's crimes and how they affected fandom, and Verba, in uncomfortable and disappointing ways
* donating her fan collection to the University of Iowa Special Collections
==Excerpts==
==References==
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Joy Harrison

In 2017, Joy Harrison was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 2:24:14.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Battlestar Galactica (1978), Robin of Sherwood, Doctor Who
* some her zines, such as Purple and Orange?, The Sonic Screwdriver, The Osiris Files, and Apollo's Odyssey
* being a fan of fandom, and more of an observer than participant
* encountering fans who'd "lost total track with reality"
* experiences with editing
* the divisions between media material and non-derivative material 
* the Society for Creative Anachronism, its politics
* cosplay and costuming
* her essay Some Thoughts on Media Science Fiction and Fantasy
* dislike of fanaticism of any sort
* not being impressed by fan writing online as it is sloppy and unedited
* changes in fandom, not for the better
* being a fanosaur
* meeting George Lucas at a con in 1977
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Battlestar Galactica Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Judy Chien

In 2012, Judy Chien was interviewed at MediaWest as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
Length: 43:50:00. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* beginning of Wiseguy fandom
* details about her individual vids
* ending up at her first MediaWest by accident
* ending up at the end of a vid show that was all about one pairing
* skipping the stop watch
* the influence of Mary Van Deusen
* feral vidding
==Excerpts==
[the beginning of Wiseguy fandom]: 
[her early vids felt and looked very modern]: 
[when did I start vidding?]: 
[ended up at MediaWest by way of default transportation]: 
[vids as early pimping]: 
[on variety]: 
[being stuck at the end of an hour long Paris/Torres show]: 
[she skipped the stop watch]: 
[flattery dulls the pain]: 
[song choice and impact]: 
[Mary Van Deusen]: 
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Vidder Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Kandy Fong and Marnie

In 2012, Kandy Fong and Marnie S. were interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
The interview length is 1:28:26.
This interview was conducted in February 2012 and transcribed in November 2013. 
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* the beautiful thing that is a long, long cord on a phone, one that reaches all the way into the kitchen
* nursing a baby at two in the morning and thinking of the plots to slash stories
* the origin of the orphan zine table
* the fiasco that was Ultimate Fantasy: George Takei buys cold cuts and salad, William Shatner hops a plane at the last minute carrying only a tiny bit of luggage, tales of personal disaster
* The Captain's Woman as a zine gateway to one fan's discovery of fandom
* reading Cosmic Fuck in loose-bound form, complete with the author's notes in the margins
* the origins of IDICon
* description of a big house in Houston that housed many of the W.H.I.P.S.
* Marnie's x-rated pinatas and napkin ring holders
* the origins of the Dancing Penises and some detailed crafting descriptions (confetti! foam couch cushions! silicone! tinsel!)
* the origins of Kandy's slideshows, including What Do You Do With a Drunken Vulcan?
* Kandy's invention of the con tape
* riding in Mark Lenard's limo on the way to a con and going through the Burger King drive-thru
* having Walter Koenig ask Kandy why his character, Pavel Chekov, got so little slash action
==Excerpts==
===Regarding the dancing penises===
===Regarding the initial mad rush for the dealers' room for zines===
===Regarding x-rated pinatas===
===Regarding Kandy's slideshows===
 
 
===An introduction to fanworks===
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Katharine Scarritt

In 2015, Katharine Scarritt was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
The interview's length: 49.25. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her introduction to fandom: a Star Trek con in Houston after 1980
* attempts from herself and others to define slash
* slash and homophobia
* the trope We're Not Gay We Just Love Each Other
* the freeing nature of being able to write from a man's point of view
* the perhaps implausibility of mens' view of "lesbian porn" and women's view of emotional porn; the pitfalls of gender and writing gender as one wishes it could be
* her early use of the terms snark and crackfic
* W.H.I.P.S and almost being kicked out of that con for selling the zine Out of Bounds, see Banned from Tulsa
* the first IDIC Con and some fans' thoughts about God's smite and the fact the air-conditioning units on top of the hotel being taken out by lightning
* the fact that "het" is a newer term, not one ever used by fans "back then"
* Lezlie Shell and her creation of the Wave Theory of Slash 
* much on early vidding, a focus on the Highlander vid Scarborough Fair
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:2015 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Kathleen Reynolds

In 2017, Kathleen Reynolds was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:06:21.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Dark Shadows
* ShadowCon
* Dark Shadows Festival
* creating Dark Shadows fanvids with Mary Overstreet beginning in 1983, these were five vids under the name The Tower Room Music Videos—these vids were: Who Can It Be Now? ("Men at Work"), You Can Do Magic ("America"), Memory (from the musical "Cats"), and Thriller (Michael Jackson)
* an unscrupulous fan who sold their fanvids without permission and for profit
* watching vids with different audiences
* the fear of fanvids and copyright issues, the complications of being too entwined with TPTB in regards to creativity and permissions
* the sheer doggedness and creativity of early vidders
* the cohesiveness of Dark Shadows fandom, likely due to fans reading the same zines: ShadowGram, The World of Dark Shadows, and Inside the Old House
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Dark Shadows
Category:Vidder Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with KimE

In 2012, Kim (KimE) was interviewed via Skype by Clare McBride as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 00:43:22. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* The Tomorrow People (the original series, the new series, and the audio series are the way they’re referred to by the fans)
* her experiences at cons, both as a fan and as a volunteer who shows the stars around
==Excerpts==
[let me tell you about my favorite fandom]: 
[regarding the remake]: 
[the convention]: 
[more about the convention]: 
[being a Joss Whedon fan]: 
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:The Tomorrow People
Category:Firefly Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with KrisserCI5

In 2012, KrisserCI5 was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
Interview length: 48:46. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* The Professionals
* Lily Fulford
* Slashbash, Blake Bash
* the circuit library
* conventions
* slash
* Magnificent Seven
* vidding
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Category:The Professionals Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Lee & Barry Gold

In 2017, Lee & Barry Gold were interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 02:56:53.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* founding the UCLA club The Third Foundation 
* Bruce Pilz
* going to Westercon in 1967 and hearing filking by Johnstone
* Star Trek changed the gender balance of science fiction fandom when they first came in there was perhaps one woman for every four or five men.
* speculation on the origin of the term filk
==Excerpts==
NOTE: these are roughly translated; it would be wise to listen to the interview itself, and feel free to make corrections to the words below.
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Filk Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Leslie Fish

In 2017, Leslie Fish was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:32:58 + ___.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed== 
* Fish had read Diane Marchant and Gerry Downes’ stories before writing Shelter, Fish said: "I had gotten to know Diane and Gerry through the mail. I didn’t meet them till, I think, over a year later."
* Fish's introduction to organized fandom was with Star Trek Lives!
* Fish's first con experience was at Star Trek Chicago
* the filks: Folk Songs For Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet, and the second was called Solar Sailors
* the stories: This Deadly Innocence, Or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome, The Weight, Shelter, Poses, Descensus Averno
* editing Pushin' the Odds
* A Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture
==Excerpts==
===Star Trek Chicago and Filk===
==="Banned from Argo"===
==="Shelter"===
==="Descensus Averno" and "This Deadly Innocence"===
===Slash and Media===
===Anarchism and Anachronism===
==="The Weight"===
===The Porn Debates===
==="Pushin' the Odds" -- To Be Read Through Red-Colored Glasses===
===Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture===
==References==
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Filk Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Linda Deneroff

In 2017, Linda Deneroff was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 53:55.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* writing the trivia questions for the Star Trek Lives! conventions, as well as the trivia questions that appear in the pro book by Joan Winston: The Making of the Trek Conventions: Or, How to Throw a Party for 12,000 of Your Most Intimate Friends
* tensions between fans of Star Trek and fans of "literary" science fiction
* working at Worldcons
* being a recipient of the threatening Open Letters to Star Wars Zine Publishers (1981) sent to fans 
* much about the zine series: Guardian
* being involved with Universal Translator and its near Hugo Award win
* being in the audience, along with Mark Hamill, to see the opening night of Empire Strikes Back
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Star Wars Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Linda McGee

In 2017, Linda McGee was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 45.44 (part one) and 46.03 (part two).
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* MaGee learned about fandom from reading Star Trek: The New Voyages, then seeing an ad on television for the Atlanta Fantasy Fair; at the con, MaGee found zines
* comments about Idiot Triplets Press, see that page 
* threats of doxing by religious anti-slashers in Starsky & Hutch fandom 
* some memories of MediaWest*Con
* some history about the zines The Lucky and the Strong and Turned to Fire
* the chilling effect on fandom and the internet due to the cease and desist actions taken against the Miami Vice zine, Vice Line
* a great appreciation for Flamingo's support of fandom, and of being a good friend
 
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Lorraine Brevig

In 2017, Lorraine Brevig was interviewed as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 48:51.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* her fannish origins
* her first art in fanzines was Inside a Song (Lord of the Rings)
* Brevig's favorite art medium
* description of running an art show at a convention
* finding slash on the internet
* explicit art vs romantic art
* the graying of MediaWest*Con
* fanart and profit
* mpreg, Alpha-Beta-Omega ficton
* a rift in The Sentinel fandom
* acquiring a tougher skin
 
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Fan Artist Interviews
Category:Blake's 7 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with M. Fae Glasgow

In 2015, M. Fae Glasgow was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Total time: 56:11. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Pros, Blake's 7, Sherlock, Star Trek: TOS
* beta reading vs editing
* porn vs erotica
* kink and BDSM
* creating old print zines
* the ways fandom has changed
* alien genitalia
* privacy
* Violating the Fourth Wall
* darkfic
* definitions of media fans
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:2014 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:The Professionals Fan Interviews