Liana Kerzner Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Cosplay Dossier

How Cosplay Can Help Self Esteem

If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the Ivy Doomkitty interview on this week’s Agents of Cosplay as well as reading this column. ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Cosplaying With A Disability Shouldn’t Require Extra Bravery

While diversity is an important element of cosplay, I try to make a distinction between featuring diverse cosplayers and featuring cosplayers because they’re ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorSeptember 29, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Why Do We Love to Hate Women Like Yaya Han?

Yaya Han is a beautiful woman. Stunningly, inhumanly beautiful. This, of course, means that she attracts a lot of attention from men who ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorSeptember 22, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

What Can Cosplayers Teach Marketing and PR Pros?

One of the amazing things about cosplay is how cosplayers can serve as ambassadors for brands. Who doesn’t love to see something fictional ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorSeptember 15, 2015

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Three Surprising Risks of Cosplaying For Charity

I mentioned to a few people that I was doing a spotlight this week on Cosplay For A Cure – a group of ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorSeptember 8, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Bioware, Please Make A Plus-Sized Female Dragon Age Character!

I love Bioware games. I love Bioware cosplay. I haven’t done a Bioware cosplay for one simple reason: my boobs are too big. ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorSeptember 1, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

The Problem of the “Professional Cosplayer” Label

Many, myself included, have used the term “professional cosplayer” to describe various people who have leveraged cosplay into a career. But the more ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorAugust 25, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

My Top Five Cosplay Pet Peeves

Every cosplayer has little things regarding costumes that annoy them. Especially when I’m judging costume competitions, there are certain things that, to me, ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorAugust 18, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

What Satoru Iwata’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Inclusive Cosplay

Cosplay Dossier is the companion to weekly video show Agents of Cosplay – go check it out! The tagline of Nintendo’s 2015 Corporate ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorAugust 11, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Hate Disney Princesses? Let It Go.

The various Disney brands have a singular ability to inspire strong emotional reactions in people. For me, Disney is a positive thing: Disney ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorAugust 4, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Taking Anime Cosplay On Its Own Terms

Anime is, admittedly, a lot to get your head around. Thanks to bizarre hentai porn and the particular cross-section of humanity that makes ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorJuly 28, 2015

Cosplay Dossier

Sometimes a Cosplay’s Power Is What It Doesn’t Do

How To Train Your Dragon wasn’t something I originally had on the schedule for Agents of Cosplay – never mind scheduled as one ...

By Liana Kerzner Legacy AuthorJuly 21, 2015

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