Cosplay and Communities of Creativity
While cosplay is something that may not be necessarily embedded in the everyday actions of wider society, and it can definitely be a form of resistance and subversion, it is not always like this. The wider cultural group, of course, can also be vastly different in different areas of the world, and yet cosplayers see themselves in cosplayers from a variety of locations, as described to us by Blake who found community in cosplayers even when in a different country - a different wider culture.
Khloe Kardashian and the Female Body: anatomy of a monster
For ages, the female body has been seen as a monster. Not just the female body generally, but specifically the fleshy female bits. The rounded female – the curves which are not carefully crafted – is something seen as reprehensible. Most of the responses to Khloe was not negative toward her body, but negative toward editing. Her response spins the narrative to focus on her own greatest fear: being fat. Because fatness is seen as monstrous for society – bubbly flesh seen as not sexy and as definitely not wanted.