Jun 12, 2024
Our first piece in this new era of Fansplaining is "The Yellow
Balloon Movement" by Maria Temming: Within jam band fandoms
often dominated by substance use, clean and sober fans are building
their own communities. You can read the full article here:
https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/the-yellow-balloon-movement
Hi, Fansplaning listeners, Elizabeth here. So everyone
probably knows by now that the podcast is on hiatus. And you may be
wondering why is this still showing up in my feed?Thanks for not
unsubscribing, because I would say with 95% certainty, the podcast
will be back in some form before too long.
But this is showing up in your feed because, as you may
recall, in the hiatus portion of the podcast itself, I'm going to
be ramping up our publication arm, which we've, you know, kind of
periodically added to over the years. Now, there's going to be at
least one new piece per month, and we had a listener when I
announced this suggest that we also do audio versions. And so
everyone who's writing one of these stories also knows they have to
record themselves, reading it and then we'll put it up alongside
the text.
And so I thought, well, you know, for folks who do like
listening, why not use this feed to share the audio with them? You
can also find it with the article itself on fansplaining.com, and
if you listen to this and enjoy it I would really appreciate if you
go back there and maybe share it with folks, whether they like
listening or reading.
So that's all to say,I thought I would just, for this one,
explain what I was doing, but rather than just dropping the audio
into your feet with no, with no warning. So I won't have a big
introduction for, for all of them, but for this one, because it was
showing up again after a few weeks, I wanted to explain why
something new was showing up in your feet.
So without further ado, the first article in this new era of
Fanplaining that I am thrilled to publish is actually a repeat
contributor. It's by Maria Temming who was the author of "The Pain
Fandom," the article we published on whump. She also came on the
podcast to talk about that article.
And importantly, she has been one of our two transcriptionists
for the past few years. Extraordinary transcriptionist, incredibly
meticulous, and she brings that meticulousness to her journalism.
The whump story was extremely deeply and thoughtfully reported, and
this story is no different. It's about yellow balloon groups. They
are clean and sober fans who basically have meetings, like AA-style
meetings, right within the concerts they're attending. So it's like
creating fandoms within fandoms, and huge, you know, diversity
range of ages and experiences of the folks that she talked to for
this.
And so it was a real pleasure to edit and to learn about this,
like this corner of fandom. And so I really hope you enjoy it. So
without further ado, here's Maria Temming.