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10 Black Cosplayers I Love

Title is self explanatory. As a black cosplayer, I've experienced some backlash over my choice to sometimes cosplay characters who don't share my racial background or color. Luckily, seeing other…

DeLaDoll May 10, 2016

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RE: “GitS: Is This Really a Case of Whitewashing?”

Background Recently, one of my peers (fellow writer and cosplayer) decided to foolishly play devil's advocate in discussing the controversy surrounding Scarlett Johansson being cast as Motoko Kusanagi in Hollywood's…

DeLaDoll April 17, 2016

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Personal Experiences with Sexism in the Cosplay Community

It's like there's a sudden rash of sexist fuckboys in my little corner of the cosplay community. Over the past week or so, I've been met with some sexist bullshit…

DeLaDoll March 27, 2016

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(Another) Spider-Man and (Black) Mary Jane

I don't know if you've heard, but there's going to be yet another set of big box office Spider-Man flicks. We were caught in a web of entertainment with Toby…

DeLaDoll March 12, 2016

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Also Black =/= Followed Back

Do y'all feel like, as black people, you have to automatically and blindly support other black people based solely on your shared status as, you know, black people? In the…

DeLaDoll February 19, 2016