Alice M. Chapman-Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has written widely on queer female fandoms and their relationship to lesbian literary culture. She published her first book, Decolonising the Conrad Canon, in 2022.

• Introduction: ‘We wrote them fairytales, and we wrote ourselves fairytales’Part 1: Queering genre1. ‘“Season One … Episode One”’: Remembering femslash fandom in coalitiongirl’s Send Up a Signal (that everything’s fine) (2015c)2. ‘“always the cure”’:Reclaiming darkness in lostlilsnail’s Striking Down Roots (2018a) 3. ‘over and over and over again’:Rescripting romance in deemn’s Cops & Robbers (2014c) Part 2: Queering family4. ‘lungs and blood and foolish heart all yearning’: Embodied non-biological maternity in everdeen’s i’ve tried to resist being last on your list (2016)5. ‘“Welcome home, querida”’: Children’s books, belonging and being enough in amycarey’s Down the Rabbit Hole (2014)6. ‘A small body held against her chest’: Parenting pasts and futures in gingerandhoney’s When you think all is lost, look again (2015)Part 3: Queering magic7. ‘encuentre a la que deje atrás’ (‘find the one I left behind’):Finding home and re-enchanting community in DiazTuna’s In the Night (2019b) and In the Day (2020b)Epilogue: ‘passing stillness’References Index

Alice M. Chapman-Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has written widely on queer female fandoms and their relationship to lesbian literary culture. She published her first book, Decolonising the Conrad Canon, in 2022.

• Introduction: ‘We wrote them fairytales, and we wrote ourselves fairytales’Part 1: Queering genre1. ‘“Season One … Episode One”’: Remembering femslash fandom in coalitiongirl’s Send Up a Signal (that everything’s fine) (2015c)2. ‘“always the cure”’:Reclaiming darkness in lostlilsnail’s Striking Down Roots (2018a) 3. ‘over and over and over again’:Rescripting romance in deemn’s Cops & Robbers (2014c) Part 2: Queering family4. ‘lungs and blood and foolish heart all yearning’: Embodied non-biological maternity in everdeen’s i’ve tried to resist being last on your list (2016)5. ‘“Welcome home, querida”’: Children’s books, belonging and being enough in amycarey’s Down the Rabbit Hole (2014)6. ‘A small body held against her chest’: Parenting pasts and futures in gingerandhoney’s When you think all is lost, look again (2015)Part 3: Queering magic7. ‘encuentre a la que deje atrás’ (‘find the one I left behind’):Finding home and re-enchanting community in DiazTuna’s In the Night (2019b) and In the Day (2020b)Epilogue: ‘passing stillness’References Index

Alice M. Chapman-Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has written widely on queer female fandoms and their relationship to lesbian literary culture. She published her first book, Decolonising the Conrad Canon, in 2022.

• Introduction: ‘We wrote them fairytales, and we wrote ourselves fairytales’Part 1: Queering genre1. ‘“Season One … Episode One”’: Remembering femslash fandom in coalitiongirl’s Send Up a Signal (that everything’s fine) (2015c)2. ‘“always the cure”’:Reclaiming darkness in lostlilsnail’s Striking Down Roots (2018a) 3. ‘over and over and over again’:Rescripting romance in deemn’s Cops & Robbers (2014c) Part 2: Queering family4. ‘lungs and blood and foolish heart all yearning’: Embodied non-biological maternity in everdeen’s i’ve tried to resist being last on your list (2016)5. ‘“Welcome home, querida”’: Children’s books, belonging and being enough in amycarey’s Down the Rabbit Hole (2014)6. ‘A small body held against her chest’: Parenting pasts and futures in gingerandhoney’s When you think all is lost, look again (2015)Part 3: Queering magic7. ‘encuentre a la que deje atrás’ (‘find the one I left behind’):Finding home and re-enchanting community in DiazTuna’s In the Night (2019b) and In the Day (2020b)Epilogue: ‘passing stillness’References Index