In the past 20 years, I’ve written about pop culture, disability, accessibility, fandom, and social media. My work spans independent scholarship, book chapters, and articles for magazines, journals, and online publications. Below is a curated list of my writing, highlighting topics I’m passionate about, from music and media to inclusion and representation.
Scholarship, Clips and Zines
- Explore my research on Google Scholar
- An up-to-date archive of my work is available on Clippings.me
- Find my personal and collaborative zines at Wild Ramp Publishing.
Book Chapters
- Chronic Illness Truths: The Things We Don’t Say (2020)
- The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century – co-authored with Raizel Liebler (2016)
- BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (2006)
Selected Articles
Disability Inclusion and Accessibility
- “DisFest Comes to the Cultural Center” – Chicago Reader, October 2023
- “Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy” – Nonprofit Quarterly, April 2023
- Living, Working, and Fangirling with a Chronic Illness – Uncanny Magazine, 2016
Music, Pop Culture, and Fandom
- “Charlene Kaye’s Music Comedy Confronts Generational Trauma With A Wink and a Riff” — Newcity, December, 2025
- “Damon Locks and The Black Monument Ensemble Imagine City as Chorus” – Newcity, October, 2025
- “Rock’s Not Dead: A Preview of The Linda Lindas at Metro” – NewCity, April 2025
- “Color in the Midst of Gray: A Preview of Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn at Old Town School of Folk Music” – NewCity, October 2024
- “The Intimacy of Viral Bedroom Pop: A Preview of PinkPantheress at Metro” – NewCity, April 2024
- “Finding My Way Back To Solitary Fandom” – Uncanny Magazine, July 2022
- “Genghis Tron Reunite and Shift Gears on Dream Weapon” – Chicago Reader, March 2021
- “The ‘K-pop Fans Will Save Us’ Narrative Misses the Bigger Social Justice Picture” – Prism, June 2020
- “Confessions of an Adjacent Geek” – Uncanny Magazine, December 2019
- “The Empowered Stan” – Fansplaining, September 2019
KEIDRA CHANEY 