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  • - There are very few prominent black cosplayers.

  • I definitely feel like

  • a minority within a minority sometimes.

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  • Cosplay literally stands for costume play,

  • so it's individuals who dress up in costumes.

  • You get to embody the characters.

  • It's almost like making an action figure of yourself.

  • My name is Jourdan Barnett.

  • By day, I'm a web content manager,

  • but by night, I'm Deadshot.

  • For me, cosplay is a creative outlet.

  • I'm not an artist, I can't draw,

  • but I love to build, I love to craft,

  • do things with my hands.

  • Each costume is an art piece.

  • Cosplayers know me as Blerd Vision.

  • Blerd literally stands for black nerd.

  • Within the cosplay community in general,

  • I feel accepted,

  • but the majority of the characters I cosplay

  • were originally Caucasian characters.

  • I definitely feel the racial tension.

  • Even with my Flash cosplay,

  • people thought at first I was a Reverse-Flash.

  • I'm clearly not like that character you think I am,

  • so why assume I'm the villain?

  • It's really disconcerting when you love a character,

  • but because you don't actually look like the character,

  • people will kind of judge you for that.

  • For me and the people that I associate with,

  • it's more about what you love.

  • And if you love the character,

  • play that character.

  • Comic books in general

  • are starting to push characters in the direction

  • of being more diverse.

  • Whether it be gay, straight, black, white,

  • whatever it is,

  • they're changing the old guard of heroes

  • to a more modern version of them.

  • So it should be a reflection of, like,

  • what our society looks like today.

  • Hopefully in the future,

  • that actually changes people's mentalities

  • toward these characters and what you can be.

  • It's a powerful thing when you can look at a character

  • and go that's me.

  • It gives you the idea that you actually do anything,

  • if you actually can identify with someone

  • that can do anything.

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Rewriting the Superhero Story Through Cosplay

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2022 年 02 月 24 日
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