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wolven7Everyone, here it is: The highest, most fiercely attended panel at this year’s Comics & Popular Arts Academic Conference at Dragon-Con: “Race, Gender, And Sexuality in Cosplay and Fandom”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sd7j3tivz4b44na/03%20Race%2C%20Gender%2C%20and%20Sexuality%20in%20Cosplay%20And%20Fandom.m4a
Panelists Daniel Amrhein, John Flowers (organizer), and Kari Storla (moderated by Matt Brown and with a brief appearance by me) engaged an audience of 130+ people for over THREE HOURS, talking about the state of gender and ethnic representation, the overcoming of harmful tropes, and what expressions of these components of identity mean, not just in cosplay, but in all aspects of fandom.
When people ask about the kinds of discussion we have, at CPAAC, about what they mean and what they’re for, we think of this kind of thing, year after year: fans and audience members engaging with scholars who’ve spent their lives investigating these things.
This was probably the most-engaged panel this year, and the one everyone I talked to said they wished they could have been at, so hear all of it here, and tell your friends.
Panelists Daniel Amrhein, John Flowers (organizer), and Kari Storla (moderated by Matt Brown and with a brief appearance by me) engaged an audience of 130+ people for over THREE HOURS, talking about the state of gender and ethnic representation, the overcoming of harmful tropes, and what expressions of these components of identity mean, not just in cosplay, but in all aspects of fandom.
When people ask about the kinds of discussion we have, at CPAAC, about what they mean and what they’re for, we think of this kind of thing, year after year: fans and audience members engaging with scholars who’ve spent their lives investigating these things.
This was probably the most-engaged panel this year, and the one everyone I talked to said they wished they could have been at, so hear all of it here, and tell your friends.
