\[ **up: [[Storytelling]] | [[Queer]]** ] > [!tip] Potentially NSFW content ahead --- # Queer fiction ## Fanfiction ### Slash > ‘**Slash** is a fandom term used to refer to a type of fanwork in which two or more characters of the same gender are placed in a sexual or romantic situation or relationship with each other.’[^1] > [[Jung (2004) sees in slash fiction ‘a communal grass roots critique not only of popular culture but also of heterosexual hegemonic notions of gender and sexuality’.]][^2] > [[Bury (2005) ‘focuses her analysis on the queer pleasures and political potential of slash, yet the question of the appropriate gender-coding of slash characters is repeatedly brought up by her study participants.’]][^3] - *External resource:* [Minotaur’s Sex Tips for Slash Writers](https://www.squidge.org/~minotaur/classic/eroc.html) [^1]: ‘Slash’, Fanlore, last edited 29 April 2025, 17:38, https://fanlore.org/wiki/Slash. [^2]: Milena Popova, ‘[[Popova, ‘Dogfuck Rapeworld’, 2018|“Dogfuck Rapeworld”: Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent]]’, *Porn Studies*, vol. 5, no. 2 (3 April 2018), p. 11. [https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2017.1394215](https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2017.1394215). [^3]: Popova, ‘Dogfuck Rapeworld’, p. 11.