Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 005

<splist
 parent=Strange_Bedfellows_(APA)
 showparent=yes
 sort=asc
 sortby=title
 liststyle=bar
 showpath=no
 kidsonly=no
 debug=0
/>
Strange Bedfellows 5 was published in May 1994 and contains about 171 pages. 
There were 36 members sharing 24 subscriptions. 
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Menage a Un"==
* getting tenure and what this means
* Acafen-L
* experiences with fans and fandom at academic conferences
* race and fandom
* "Paper Tiger" -- "an independent collective of videomakers who circulate their programs via local access stations around the world and sell them to educators to use in the classroom. Many of their tapes deal with the politics of popular culture from various left-of-center perspectives."
* visibility of slash, visibility of gay people, changing attitudes of Disney
* Barbie Liberation Organization -- "They are selling a video to be released this summer that shows behind-the-scenes how they remade the Barbies with the GI Joe voices and how their actions were represented in the media."
* commentary on Penthouse Forum letters and the topics of gay and bi-sexual content
* the term sci-fi
* is referring to grown men as "boys" just as offensive/inappropriate as calling women "girls"?
* disliking the actors, but liking the characters
* comments on the term Science Fiction#Sci-Fi
===Excerpts from "Menage a Un"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Notes from Tomorrow"==
* opera
===Excerpts from "Notes from Tomorrow"===
Very short and not very fannish.
==Some Topics Discussed in "Slash is Everywhere"==
* Diana Bennett vs Catherine Chandler
* comments on much-talked about Wiseguy zine, The Terranova Situation
* comments about how gen Blake's 7 fanfic is acceptable reading to this slash fan
* Beatles fanfic
===Excerpts from "Slash is Everywhere"===
 
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemas"==
* what makes a show "slashable"
* comments on femmeslash
* the thought of an "electronic fanzine," fears about copyright and visibility
* comments about music vids and copyright, a mention of vids that splice mainstream porn into their content
* the similarities between media fans and sports fans
* ages of fans, generational differences, young people today!
* role-playing and exploring gender
* comments about House of Zeor, homophobia, and sexual violence
* comments about Jacqueline Lichtenberg's term intimate adventure
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemas"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Desert Blooms"==
* music with slash content and overtones
* U2 slash
===Excerpts from "Desert Blooms"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Vice Files"==
* comments about A Weekend in the Country
* comments about Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9
* Babylon 5's ban on fanworks as per JMS's decree
* Suzan Lovett and Wiseguy art
* Blake's 7 and alternate universes
* Mary Sues
* will "net" fans get more information faster than fans who do not have access to a computer
===Excerpts from "Vice Files"===
 
 
== Some Topics Discussed in "But, T-shirt Slogans ARE Intellectual Discourse"==
* comments about acafans
* some plays by Leslie Shell
* comments about Party Spirit and "All Talk", a story in Concupiscence #3 
* comments about Virgule-L about letting a man join the list, the possible cooling effect this may have had on discussion
* f/f stories and the future
* Bodie/Cowley stories, and power
* comments about Blond Shall Not Touch Blond, Nor Curly Touch Curly
* descriptions of an acting class at in Santa Barbara being taught by Jonathan Banks 
* comments about songtapes
===Excerpts from "But, T-shirt Slogans ARE Intellectual Discourse"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues"==
* a long con report for Escapade, focus is two panels: one on Eroica and one on Music RPF and slash
* a response to the statement that women have power as they are in control of domestic households, and nuns have power over their minor charges, that "it's still a command of a limited, usually household, social space"
* liking, and not liking characters, and how that plays out in writing fanfiction
* commentary on Michael Dery's broad use of "slash" in Science Friction, and how this more mainstream, academic use may meddle with fan's purer use of the term; fans are rattled and grumpy by Dery's publications, as well as high-profile... Dery's essay, Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile, is still two years in the future 
* comments about the 1992 book Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a book by Jayne Ann Krentz
* comments about two essays The Development of the Kirk/Spock Relationship: Its Foundation in Fan-Fiction (1978) by April Valentine and Shanon Schildknecht and Romantic Myth, Transcendence, and Star Trek Zines (1986) by Patricia Frazer Lamb and Diana L. Veith 
* comments about power balances and men and women
* comments about hurt/comfort
* an Eroica story fragment
* the proliferation of teddy bears in slash stories, and why
* do gay people make better spies
* "Fanac at its best is hard-working play, or it wouldn't be rewarding."
* academia, acafans, and snobbishness
* comments on gender and pronouns in The Crying Game
* remarks on copyright
* comments on slash, for-profit "slash" (m/m romance market)
=== Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
 
== Some Topics Discussed in "Darkling Zine Fanotome"==
* very short with little fandom content, handwritten
* contains clippings in French about a new series called "Les Trois As"
== Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker"==
* slash possibilities in Shakespeare
* George Cowley would never allow openly gay people to remain in his employ
* George Cowley is gay; this fan reprints a short essay on this topic that she included in Be Gentle With Us #4 in 1991, see Is Cowley gay?
* comments on Mary Sues
* is Harriet Vane (Lady Peter Wimsey) a Mary Sue
* zines and profit
=== Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
 
== Some Topics Discussed in "Weirdness on a Swan's Song"==
* erotic fanfic starring Wesley Crusher
* being embarrassed about slash in front of a gay man
* tenderness and fluffy slash
=== Excerpts from "Weirdness on a Swan's Song"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "Yamibutoh"==
* comments on the Japanese movie "Nemurenai Machi; Shinjuku Zame"
* women's roles and hard work in the past
* comments on romantic sadism and movies by Valentino
=== Excerpts from "Yamibutoh"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors"==
* working on secret and confidential work for Exxon on new projects in Russia, comments on engineering and geology databases
* comments on religion, kindness, and hypocrisy
* comments about some song vids
=== Excerpts from "Mardi Gras Favors"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "Lunatic Fringe"==
* this fan wants some input about publishing a zine of her stories in Manacles Press, of stories that don't really fit the press' criteria: too weird, to female-oriented, not realistic... there is some descriptions of the stories that are candidates
* comments on a review by M. Fae Glasgow of The Terranova Situation
* this fan owns a tape full of Trek songvids, one of which is a Spock-Kirk-McCoy vid to Kenny Rogers' Through the Years, "is definitely about the three of them, and is absolutely beautiful." 
* a Pros story: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, by Dawn Woods is included with this comment: "I thought I'd ask the SBF for comments on this. "Throw this away" will be politely ignored; nothing hurts the Circuit after DAMEON Could DAMEON be Taemon's Cuckoos? , I reckon. But if someone sends me great feedback I'll very likely use it...."
=== Excerpts from "Lunatic Fringe"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed"==
* comments about several books and essays: Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (first published by UMI Research Press in 1988 and reprinted by Icon Editions in 1991). This is from "Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness," by Lise Vogel (p. 48), "The Erotic Male Nude," by Sarah Kent, in a book of essays by various people entitled Women's Images of Men (London & New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1985)
* comments about "Playgirl," "Playboy," the male gaze, the female gaze, power, threats
* why are slashed shows almost always SF or action-adventure ones, not sitcoms, etc.
* cross-dressing, Japan, the book "Vested Interests," the Takarazuka company
* men and women's pornography and body odors and cleanliness
* comments about the Japanese actor, Shoken
* Blake's 7 Avatars, Blake's 7 AUs
=== Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "For the World is Hollow and I Fell Off the Edge"==
* some ideas for a Forever Knight story that features an alternate version of Nick's origins
* comments about two Forever Knight zines: Dreaming of the Knight and Forever Net
* comments about the differences in the shared canon of Forever Knight fans online as opposed to other fans
* comments on her own Pros novel, Never Let Me Down
* comparing relationships in The Sandbaggers and Blake's 7
* the terrible quality of "internet fiction"
* comments about Jadzia Dax, slash, and gender
=== Excerpts from "For the World is Hollow and I Fell Off the Edge"===
 
== Some Topics Discussed in "By This Time, My Lungs Were Aching for Air"==
* rewatching [[Man from U.N.C.L.E., opinions on episodes and slashiness
* Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries
=== Excerpts from "By This Time, My Lungs Were Aching for Air"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced (T H)"==
* comments on the Olympic Skating events and competition
* comments about watching the series The Champions
* the different actors who portrayed Robin in Robin of Sherwood
* some fans' preference for [[fade-to-black sex scenes in fiction, having to defend one's interest in reading explicit sex
* access to computers as rare and privileged, paper is for everyone
* women in slash stories about men
* Jane Carnall's story, As Games are Played
* physical vs emotional hurt/comfort
* essay: "Ireland: A Very Brief History" by David B., partner to this tribber
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced (T H)"===
== Some Topics Discussed in "De Nada"==
* VERY extensive comments about "politically correct" language and labels for things and people
* only a very brief mention of fandom
== Some Topics Discussed in "Women of Houston in Pornography"==
* the essay, Homosexuality has as much to do with Slash as Civil War history did with Gone With the Wind.
* reprinted articles: "Suit Depicts Fight on M.I.T. Faculty" by Fox Butterfield, "Special to the New York Times" and "Protecting Campuses from 'Vexatious' Speech" by Nat Hentoff, "The Washington Post"
=== Excerpts from "Women of Houston in Pornography"=== 
== Some Topics Discussed in "W.H.I.P.S. Redux"==
* men's presence in female slash spaces
* zine piracy, fandom as a community and not an organization 
* sexuality, language, and choice 
* comments about the 1992 book Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a book by Jayne Ann Krentz
* why slash?
=== Excerpts from "W.H.I.P.S. Redux"===
 
== Some Topics Discussed in "Musings from the Last Possible Minute"==
* why slash?
=== Excerpts from "Musings from the Last Possible Minute"===
== References==
Category:Slash Zines