- Fanfic Symposium - Archive of essays on a variety of issues in fandom and writing fan fiction.
- Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile - An essay by Mark Dery.
- Soapboxgirls: Slash Universe - Alix Rose writes about the origins of slash fan fiction and why she enjoys it.
- The Sex Lives Of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors - Based on survey results, compares reality of authors' sexual behavior to the behavior portrayed in their stories.
- The Slash Edge: Why Queer as Folk isn't Slashy - Debra Fran Baker considers the nature of slash and its relationship to a television show featuring gay characters.
- Things You Learn From Slash - Long list of cliches and oddities that arise in slash fiction by Josephine Darcy.
Media publications
- Genders OnLine Journal - Minding One's P's and Q's: - Homoeroticism in Star Trek: The Next Generation. An analysis by Atara Stein of the homoerotic subtext between the omnipotent entitity Q and Captain Picard and its implications about gender identity. (Published 1998.00.00)
- Salon.com: Porn for the Rest of Us - An article by Merle Kessler about slash fiction and a tongue-in-cheek template for writing it. (Published 2001.12.10)
- SFGate: Spock Does Mulder - A human interest story on the popularity of slash online, and its largely female body of authors. (Published 1999.09.30)