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

[rm.livejournal.com]

As much as the paper isn't about fannish representation, the way fandom glommed onto Snape was sort of how I got thinking about this stuff in the first place, so I'd be curious as well.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Snape is such a fascinating character. JKR perceives her characters in such a weird way... I remember her calling Dumbeldore "the embodiment of good" or something similar and all I could think is "Is she smoking her excess Pound Sterlings or something".

Anyway... obviously we could both go on and on about all that.