Equinox Hartman-Glover

Equinox (She/They/It) is a lifelong fan of fans. To that end she works with a variety of pop media, critically analyzing the impact of art and the process of storytelling. They look at the communities formed by these stories, fandom, and how they come together to share resources in ways that mirrors mutual aid. Finally it hopes to become an active member of multiple communities, connecting fan groups to mutual aid networks to empower alternative modes of organizing outside the status quo. “All play is pleasurably attuned, joyfully moved in itself –it is animated.” - Eugen Fink, Play as a Symbol of the World

B.S. in Anthropology at UCRiverside; with an Emphasis in Black and Black Diaspora Studies, and a Minor in Media and Culture Studies

Story Anthropology, Transdisciplinarity, Mutual Aid, fictive kinship, activist globalization, worldbuilding (fictive and municipal), fandom ethnography, psychoanalysis, queer futurity, abolition, phenomenology, ontology of play, and pedagogy of play

Pollitt Endowed Researcher: Researching with Dr.Jennifer Syvertsen, equinox worked with interviews of individuals in the local IE community impacted by overdose. Connecting research to mutual aid groups worked to create new solutions to abate systemic violence against this local community.

McNair Scholars Researcher: With the McNair Scholars program equinox looked at the power of alternative worlds. Beyond studying the physical world, they question the role of a 'psychic world' of thought and play in forming the physical world. By focusing on play as a universal connection between all people, Psychic World theory describes the way that stories, stereotypes, and systems made by people come from a world outside this one. The theory of a psychic world connects politics to fictive worldbuilding, and acts as a base theory to work off of moving forward.

Hartman, E. (2025). Friends, Fandom, Family: A Framework for a Future in Fan Studies. Practicing Anthropology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2025.2517151