@article{Bussoletti_2021, title={Pursuing a Gender Non-conforming “Hellscape:” Investigating Nonbinary User and Fan Practices on Tumblr}, url={https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/17726}, abstractNote={<p>The article contributes to budding research on nonbinary individuals by analyzing nonbinary people’s practices as social media users and fans on Tumblr. Drawing from literature on nonbinary identities, gender performativity, platform vernaculars, and Tumblr it analyzes semi-structured interviews to Tumblr members of a particular group, the Houseki no Kuni (HnK) fandom. The findings highlight how nonbinary fans of HnK utilize Tumblr’s vernacular and affordances to manage a safe(r) space where to express what they perceive as their true selves (RQ1), while using fandom discussions to validate and narrate their identity as nonbinary individuals (RQ2) towards the creation of more accepting futures.</p>}, number={18}, journal={Mediascapes journal}, author={Bussoletti, Arianna}, year={2021}, month={dic.}, pages={43–53} }