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

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

chaeche was/is at a vidding con this weekend and probably didn't see your post, but I think her cosplaying of Mpreg Snape and Latex!Snape would be wonderfully illustrative of a female cosplaying Snape with deliberate feminine aspects. I believe there are images that have been made available on snapecast.com

[sinick.livejournal.com]

Actually, if "deliberate feminine aspects" is what the OP is interested in, that's going to be quite hard to find.

Sure, a lot of women (myself included) cosplay Snape, and in a lot of cases have done so for years.

But does the gender of the cosplayer per se make the portrayal genderqueer, when the portrayal is almost invariably done in such a way as to minimize the femininity of the cosplayer (since said femininity moves the portrayal further OOC)? droxy is of course the most outstanding example of the lengths female Snape cosplayers go to, though many others do things like lower their voices, bind their breasts, wear lifts in their shoes etc etc.

The only Snape cosplay I've personally seen in five years of HP cons that doesn't downplay the cosplayer's femininity chaeche's Latex!Snape. (I never saw her Mpreg!Snape, but it certainly sounds like a second exception to the rule.)