Wonder Woman of the Week: The women of the Fandom 250

Our Wonder Woman of the Week this week celebrates the influential women on the Fandom 250 list and all of the women in fandom who put them there.

This week FanSided released its annual Fandom 250 list, which talks about fandoms across all different types of media. The list ranks some of the greatest fans out there, and it’s always fun to see if your fandoms made the list.

For this week’s Wonder Woman of the Week, we are celebrating the many women who made it on the list. There are so many women whom fans are here for. From podcast hosts to celebrities to fictional characters, women have some of the most dedicated fan bases out there. It’s easy to see why. So many women are doing creative, interesting, important, powerful, and resonant work, and we just can’t get enough.

The Fandom 250 list includes people such as Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from the My Favorite Murder podcast as well as more well-known celebrities such as Emma Watson, Shonda Rhimes, and Nicki Minaj. There’s also a couple of fictional ladies such as Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman, because fictional people always inspire and show the importance of representation.

Other amazing women on the Fandom 250 list include athletes like Serena Williams, who made the seventh spot this year, a very appropriate choice since she has been speaking up and out this year about what it’s like being a black woman in tennis. Of course, Beyoncé and Rihanna were near the top of the list as well. These two women are so influential it wouldn’t make sense if they didn’t have some of the biggest, strongest fan bases around.

While we love to talk about celebrities and other notable women each week in this column, we definitely need to celebrate another group of women this week: women in fandom. Women are amazing fans. From sports fans to movie fans to shippers to celebrity fans and more, women make up a huge portion of fandom all across the board. It’s great that it’s easier for women to participate in fandom than it used to be, and, even though they often face pushback for being nerds or sports fans or really just using their voice at all, women are always still rocking it.

Women are passionate fans, and they are creative, too. They drive fandom forward by creating fan works, talking about their faves, writing thoughtful articles, connecting with other fans, raising money, and much more. If you’re a big fan of anything on this list, we just want to say you rock and remind you to give yourself a pat on the back.

As fans of many things ourselves, the writers at Culturess love seeing women, queer people, and non-binary folks be active and fandom and make fandom a more diverse place than it used to be. So, here’s to you and to more fandom greatness in 2019!