Citations:issuefic

Noun: "(fandom slang) fan fiction which explores or comments upon social and/or political issues"

 * 2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, page 92:
 * Even a gay identification, though, did not lead to the endorsement of gay politics. As noted earlier in the chapter, the respondents expressed a dislike of "issue fic."
 * 2009, Kristina Busse & Alexis Lothian, "Bending Gender: Feminist And (Trans)Gender Discourses In The Changing Bodies Of Slash Fan Fiction", in Internet Fictions (eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, & Sirpa Leppänen):
 * Many fans prefer not to see political concerns foregrounded in fanwork: "issue fic" can be a derogatory description.
 * 2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 52:
 * With derogatory labels like issuefic often attached to stories that carry an obvious morally prescriptive message, it can be a challenge for writers to integrate complex social issues into their fics without seeming preachy or didactic.
 * 2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126:
 * This story also appeared to me to be an “issue fic” by virtue of its handling of a character who was still in the process of transitioning (or recently had) and who specifically acknowledged fearing transphobia within the text, in addition to tags about “misunderstandings” and “self confidence issues.”
 * 2018, Lucy Neville, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica, page 274:
 * As one woman in my study explains, 'I don't read [issue fic] because a lot focuses on 'queer culture' and despite being a queer woman myself, I find it alienating because...it feels like I'm being spoken for, and plus I don't read erotica to learn lessons' (American, 25-34, single, bisexual).