Alexandra has handed me the keys of Feminist Friday this week, so I'm driving (with care) to the geeky side.

I'll be dressing outlandishly at a SciFi convention this summer. Cons are increasingly encouraging/enforcing decent behaviour towards attendees, and particularly cosplayers. Here's a report (with many lovely photos) from New York Comic Con.

“My favorite character in the history of creation has to be Ursula the Sea Witch," says Tom Catt, who was playing Poison Ivy. "She’s fabulous, she’s ferocious, she’s over-the-top, she’s theatrical … Every time I dress up as Ursula, I get a big sense of pride."

http://mashable.com/2014/10/15/new-york-comic-con-harassment/

One flavour of cosplay involves dressing as a girled-up version of Doctor Who (so many lovely photos). 

The companions are, definitionally, sidekicks. And femme Doctor cosplayers are very aware of this. 

"I do want to get my fellow fans thinking… I want them to say, 'A female Doctor???!? Whaaat?' and then think about why that sounds so ridiculous, even inside their heads." 

http://io9.com/5887847/gender-swapped-doctors-are-our-new-favorite-form-of-doctor-who

While Dr Who has (again) regenerated into a chap, Ms Marvel has been reinvented as a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager. One writer breaks down why Kamala Khan rocks her world:

Kamala uses a burkini as the basis of her costume. I have no point about the synthesis of Islam and immigrant life to make here, that shit is just straight up hilarious.

http://www.browngirlmagazine.com/2015/06/kamala-khan-as-ms-marvel-is-the-greatest-thing-to-happen-to-pakistani-muslim-americans/

Hope you get to follow your enthusiasms this weekend,

Saxey