Here’s my schedule for Anime Detour! I’ll be in artist alley taking preorders for “magnifiqueNOIR” and I’ll have all kinds of new prints and other fun crafts with my partner :) HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!
We’re off to Shuto Con this weekend and are more than ready for their magical girl theme! We’ll be doing panels and we’ll have a table in artist alley full of our books, crafts, magical girl prints, and we’ll also be taking preorders on “magnifiqueNOIR” throughout the weekend! Come check us out!
Hey everyone! Getting ready for our first con of the year! We’ll be doing panels and we’ll have a table in the vendor room, where we’ll be taking preorders on “magnifiqueNOIR”, have prints available, and other fun crafts :)
Hope to see you there!
ALERT! There’s a black, queer, magical girl squad saving the world with cupcakes, sparkles, high kicks, and sass <3 <3 <3
Sooooo happy with the progress of these new LGBTQ prints! MuseTap Studios does such adorable chibi art, and I got to play around with doing backgrounds ^___^ Please feel free to share this with EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
Campaign link is HERE!!!
My thoughts on Hidden Figures. If you haven’t seen it, please, go and do so. The article is kinda spoilerish, but nothing huge is revealed.
I’m super excited and honored to announce that tomorrow at 5:30 Princess Mentality Cosplay and I will be teaming up to do a #28DaysOfBlackCosplay panel at A-Kon! She’s a guest at the con and has invited me to be a part of her panel!
I hope to see you there :)
I should be a touch bit more specific. I’m overjoyed when I see black cosplay in a positive light. Sadly, I’m used to seeing it in an “I need to defend myself” kind of way. I say that because a lot of the black cosplayers I follow are ones I’ve found through reading an article written about racism in the community, seeing them brilliantly defend themselves from negative comments, or watching supposedly funny memes being shared that reduces their cosplay to tacky black stereotypes because—ha ha, a group of black people must be up to ghetto shenanigans, right? Don’t get me wrong: it’s good to see black cosplayers discuss the issues they deal with. The articles. The posts. The documentaries. The encouragement to go out there and be your wonderful, magical self despite the hate. All of that is amazing, and absolutely necessary. But just like being the lone black voice gets exhausting, it also gets exhausting to see black cosplay highlighted in defense.
That’s not what we came here for.
Just like every other cosplayer out there, we’re here for the fun of it all. We want to run around conventions dressed as the characters we love. We want to pose for pictures, hang out with friends, go to panels, meet guests—we want the full convention-going experience that everyone else gets. And while it’s important to have these diversity talks, it’s a bummer to discover an amazing cosplayer only because someone decided to call them the n-word.
That’s the beauty of #29DaysOfBlackCosplay.
For the entire month of February, black cosplayers are being promoted just ’cause. There’s no mockery. There’s no lack of visibility. It’s just black cosplay. The end.
My piece for #29DaysOfBlackCosplay is here :)
More black princesses, more black fairies, more black mermaids, more black girls doing all the things, for fucks sake
More all girls doing all things for all fucks sake.
More black princesses, more black fairies, more black mermaids, more black girls doing all the things, for fucks sake
I mean seriously let’s look at like Disney for instance:
There is one black princess out of a line up that started in the 1930s.
To my knowledge, there is one black fairy out of the Disney fairy line up that started in 2005.
And I can’t think of a single black mermaid (there is a Latina one in the short lived Little Mermaid cartoon series).
So yes. More black princesses, more black fairies, more black mermaids, more black girls doing all the things, for fucks sake. Because we can have more than one in a group.
Hey loves!!!!
My cosplay darlings Princess Mentality Cosplay, Maki Roll’s Chop Shop,Butterfly Samurai, and I submitted a proposal to do a panel at NYCC, but found out we were rejected this week. It was so disappointing so we went on twitter to express that disappointment. We were pretty shocked by all the support we received and how many people said that they would love to go to a panel like this. The amazing ladies at The Mary Sue reached out, and the rest is history. Promoting diversity in this community is so incredibly important and I know all the ladies that were supposed to be on that panel are dedicated to it. Dragon Con is in a few weeks and these phenomenal women will be there, nothing is set in stone but we’re definitely going to try to film something for our youtube channels. That’s one of the amazing things about the internet, you can create the content you want and create amazing communities. <3 <3 <3
http://www.themarysue.com/nycc-black-cosplay-panel/
Please to be filming something for Dragon Con thanks~
