For Black fans in particular, cosplaying became a way to embody the characters they knew and loved – characters that didn’t always look like them. ⤵️
cosplays, many areforced to explain the “why” behind their choices and defend their interest in cosplay as a whole.
As fan studies scholar joan miller points out in her article “Raceplay: Whiteness and Erasure in Cross-Racial Cosplay” in, “Both Cumberbatch's and Singh’s disidentifications force their respective audiences to ask questions and think critically. Their cosplays challenge dominant ideologies about what kind of bodies get marked as superheroes and what kinds of bodies are visible in pop culture media.
from white fans used to only seeing themselves as heroes, even when watching anime or seeing anime cosplayers., a Black cosplayer who got his start back in 2014 with a closet cosplay of Blade, cosplay drew him in because of how it appealed to his creative energy. It also helps him combat stereotypes around disability.
“It's really a joy to try to inhabit certain characters, especially ones where I'd have to bend the rules a little in my own way to pull off,” Avery explains. “Also having cerebral palsy and asthma, which I think is ironic considering what I do, it's certainly a great outlet for me to be something or someone else for a few days and a pretty big "screw you" to those who said I wouldn't be able to be this tactitle.
One of the best responses to “This character isn’t Black” as a way to devalue Black cosplayers? Cosplayer afrococoapuffs’ song “
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