Otaku Links: Cosplay, consent, and the Camarilla

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  • Like everyone else in the fandom-blogosphere, I just found out about CONsent, a photo journalism project about treating cosplayers with respect. As research my Sexism in Anime Fandom panel, Patches and I collected anonymous horror stories from male and female cosplayers alike. It’s great to see people coming forward with their stories.
  • This week, somebody found Otaku Journalist by Googling “anime characters who are journalists.” I didn’t know the answer, so I decided to look it up myself. Voila! Here’s an exhaustive list of reporters in anime, courtesy of Anime Planet.
  • Why aren’t journalism students interested in journalism? I don’t quite agree with Steve Faguy’s title. I wasn’t very interested in the political reporting classes I had to take in J-school, for example, but I loved my class on community and niche group reporting. The third section of this post, “Experience > Grades,” is gold. There’s no barrier anymore. In fact, I just taught a class at American that included a few students who had bylines in some of the same new outlets as I do!
  • You can go to a lot of different sites to find out the lineup for the next anime season, but I just found AniChart and think it’s extremely well designed. And let’s be honest, when’s the last time you visited an anime site and said, “Wow, that’s some really clean, minimalist Web design!”

(Photo by Sushi Killer.)