ABSTRACT
Digital video platforms and social media have opened new possibilities for queer contestation of mainstream media and enriched the potential of queer activism and visibility. Digital performances emerge and disappear, trends come and go, and the communities created rise and fall. Digital queer communities, particularly queer fan communities, are a pastiche, a collage, a transnational queer worlding. Digital media has opened new modes of kinship, different ways of being together “that sustain people as they survive hostile living conditions”, especially for queer fandoms. The acts of creation are important and have been occurring since the internet became accessible to the broader public. The counterpublics established the possibility for minoritarian performances to be consumed, created, publicized, and shared throughout the queer diaspora, building affinitive kinship and community networks.
