No Space For You (So Make Your Own): Disability, Neurodivergence, and Cosplay

No Space For You (So Make Your Own): Disability, Neurodivergence, and Cosplay — Sometimes we don’t know where to start, or we feel like we don’t have a right to cosplay a character because we don’t look like how people expect the character to be, or we worry that we can’t fully embody them. What are the difficulties of cosplaying while different? How much of cosplaying while disabled or neurodivergent requires adaptation for your needs instead of reimagination or replication of the character’s costume? And how does pretending to be someone else help you to find yourself? By Katch Murtagh, Cliona McEnery, Gerry Begley, Katt Dodd and Octocon