Posts tagged ‘cosplay’

Cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. I just returned from the PCA/ACA conference in Boston this year, where I presented a paper on geek women presenting themselves as “sexy,” focusing on cosplay. My presentation had ...

Cross-posted at Doctor Her. Post-Gallifrey, I was interviewed at i09 about the phenomenon of femme Doctor cosplay. If you’re not familiar with it, femme cosplay is when female cosplayers alter the costumes of male characters ...

A steampunk TARDIS seemed so much better to me than a steampunk Doctor (although I’m still considering a steampunk femme 10th Doctor for another con). That may be because the most important thing in steampunk is not the bustles or the brown, but the tech.

Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research. In her project, Zhang aimed to design a targeted gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle with the potential to eradicate cancer stem cells ...

This post addresses the trend I discussed in my post on geek girls and the problem of self-objectification. This post is cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. My friend Lola showed me this video from ...

A friend linked http://takebackhalloween.org/, which I think might appeal to folk here. They include costume ideas for Lise Meitner and Ada Lovelace among many other notable women. So it’s gotten me wondering… what are you, ...

Why do female geek objectify themselves or present themselves as sexy versions of the things geek men love? That’s what a recent Comic-Con panel, “Oh, You Sexy Geek!” asked, but maybe it isn’t the right question at all.