Latinx Fandoms examines how Latinx fans create meaning, build community, and imagine new worlds through their engagement with popular culture.

From comics, science fiction, and gaming to music, sports, wrestling, television, and fan fiction, the cutting edge work by dozens of scholars demonstrate how Latinx fandoms become powerful sites of identity formation, cultural expression, and belonging for communities often overlooked in both media industries and academic scholarship.

Latinx Fandoms explores a remarkable range of fan practices and cultural phenomena. Contributors examine topics as diverse as Pokémon, Barbie, Star Wars, Hello Kitty, Taylor Swift, BTS, Bad Bunny, lucha libre, fútbol, Nintendo, cosplay, fan fiction, bodybuilding, and Latinx goth subcultures.