Snape fans, I need your help

[rm]

Are you a woman who cosplays Snape?

Are you someone of any gender who cosplays Snape in any sort of intentionally genderqueer way?

Are you a fan-artist who has done drawings of Snape scenes from JKR's book in which he is described with traditionally feminine adjectives or attributes (i.e., that thing where he's wearing a blouse when he first meets Lily as a little kid)?

Are you a fan-artist who has done drawings of Snape with some degree of feminine presentation and those drawings are general audiences (i.e., not cross-dressing erotica)?

I'm giving a paper (a draft version of it was presented at a Harry Potter con a few years back) at the Dragon*Con Comics and Popular Arts Conference on Beyond Queering the Villain: Severus Snape, Gender and Heroism and I have been asked to do a powerpoint presentation to accompany it.

If you are willing to let me use images of your art or cosplay, with full-credit, solely for the purposes of this powerpoint (not published, not a hand-out), please get in touch through comments or email me at racheline AT gmail DOT com.

Thank you!

Comments

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I believe blouse originally was a less gendered term, but in contemporary Britian, a man's shirt would certainly not be referred to as a blouse. And I'm just reading the scene, and the context for the line is Petunia challenging him "What's that you're wearing, your mum's blouse?" Outside of dialogue, JKR calls it a smock, which I believe is closer to the sense in which Dickens would have used blouse but obviously less loaded to modern ears.

rm, I am totally hooked and inspired by the idea of this presentation. Is this one of the ones you're hoping to get recorded?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's actually a more refined version of something I gave a draft of a few years ago, but basically if I mention it in the same breath of any other scholarly work I'm remotely interested in doing, people are like "GIVE THAT ONE" so, you know... getting it together now.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I vicariously can't wait. And you're totally making me want to cosplay, which is a completely new sensation for me.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for this, it sounds awesome.