Bart Bernhardt

Observer
Science CosPlay
one thing that came out through several conversations throughout the event is very much that we're in someone else's community or communities that have their own rules, and values and concerns, and geek culture in particular has a long history of trauma, and social isolation, and anxiety and otherwise being marginalized, and these are a bunch of people who, especially the cosplayer, are in a position of being exposed and vulnerable. And so there's definitely a lot of landmines for institutions participating in a Comic-Con when it comes to that kind of cultural environment.