“…Fandom, by and large, tends to be a white space. And people of colour (PoC) are, by and large, good at negotiating white space. We have to be. We speak the lingo and know the canon, and we do such a good job blending in online that we often … disappear.

“I’ve done it. For a while it was a relief, because the anonymity of online interaction offered me a brief (albeit artificial) respite from the complications of my brown skin. But there’s a hollowness that comes when you start assuming that everybody around you is white, and then one day you’re astounded to find another Indian person in fandom and you realize that you’ve effectively erased not only the ethnicities of the people around you, but also your own.”