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May 17, 2021

Aman is a Lifelong Anime fan and one-half of the Youtube Channel Whataweeb. He Volunteers at Anime For Humanity as the PR and relationships manager, bringing the mission and goals of Anime For Humanity to as many people as he can. When Aman found Anime For Humanity, he fell in love with their mission because, anime, his lifelong hobby, and passion had helped him a lot growing up and dealing with the challenges that come with life. He aims to be able to make Anime stand out and make a difference in people's lives, the same way anime helped him moving forward with Anime For Humanity's mission....

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May 17, 2021

Dr. Eric Wesselmann, PhD, is a social psychologist who studies the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion in daily life. He has taught several classes connecting psychology to topics such as popular films, fandom, horror entertainment, and the X-Men media franchise. He has contributed chapters to ten volumes of the Popular Culture Psychology series (e.g., Spider-Man Psychology, Stranger Things Psychology,Wonder Woman Psychology). Eric regularly discusses the overlap between psychology and popular culture topics at conventions both local and national. He has contributed to several podcasts for WGLT Psych Geeks, writes essays on psychology and cult films called FilmCULTure, and has a YouTube channel called Digital Golgotha Productions. You can Follow Dr. Eric Wesselmann at: Twitter: @EricWesselmann...

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May 17, 2021

Karen or Kukkii-san is a cosplayer, author, and fan researcher based in Mainz, Germany. She published her doctoral thesis in Cultural Studies on Fan Costuming and Cosplay in 2013. She has since left academia to pursue a corporate career and is currently studying for a Master of Laws. Karen continues to work as a freelance author and editor, publishing on cosplay culture and wig craft. Links: Website and Blog https://www.wigs101.com Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/kukkiiCosplay/ https://www.instagram.com/kukkiicos/ https://twitter.com/scarletstarla Tutorial Books kukkiicos.etsy.com...

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May 14, 2021

Erica Friedman is the Founder of Yuricon and has run the world's oldest and most comprehensive blog on Yuri, Okazu, since 2002. She has edited manga for JManga, Seven Seas and Udon Entertainment, most recently Riyoko Ikeda’s epic historical classic, The Rose of Versailles. Erica is the author of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga, out now from Journey Press. Social Media Links: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/OkazuYuri Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Okazu Discord:https://discord.gg/4NPHGH7Vc4 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/yuristudio ...

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May 14, 2021

Jennifer Klesman holds a Masters's degree in Clinical Social Work from Boston University.  Before pursuing private practice, she spent 7 years working in high schools as a school social worker in both suburban and rural high schools. She now works as a clinical therapist seeing clients individually for therapy integrating aspects of narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavioral therapies (DBT) into her work.  Jennifer has been cosplaying herself for almost 20 years and has found cosplay and aspects of nerd culture to be therapeutic....

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May 14, 2021

Arden Powell is a speculative-fiction author and illustrator from the Canadian East Coast. They graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Honouring in English Literature, and published their first book five years later. As a hybrid author, they self-publish as well as publish with indie presses, and have short stories appearing in literary magazines including Baffling Magazine and Lightspeed. A nebulous entity, they live with a small terrier and an exorbitant number of houseplants and have conversations with both. They write across a range of fantasy, science fiction, and horror sub-genres, and everything they write is queer. They can also be found on Twitter @ArdenPowell. Pronouns: they/them...

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May 14, 2021

Ryan Holmberg is a freelance arts and comics historian and translator. He has taught at Duke University and the University of Tokyo, among other schools. As an editor and translator of manga, he has worked with Breakdown Press, Drawn & Quarterly, Retrofit Comics, New York Review Comics, and PictureBox on over two dozen different books. His edition of Tezuka Osamu’s The Mysterious Underground Men (PictureBox) won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia. A frequent contributor to The Comics Journal, he is also the author of The Translator Without Talent (Bubbles, 2020) and Garo Manga: The First Decade, 1964-1973 (Center for Book Arts, 2010). He is active on social media @mangaberg....

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May 14, 2021

2D animator from Boston who works as a freelancer in the Japanese animation industry. Has worked on shows such as Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Black Clover, Jujutsu Kaisen, and One Piece....

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May 14, 2021

AichiYume is a panelist, scholar, writer, cosplayer, generalized fan, and cake enthusiast. She has been proudly paneling at anime, comic book, and video game conventions of various sizes across the state of Texas for nearly a decade and has just as many years of experience in running anime and Japanese culture clubs from high school to the collegiate level. By day, she is a professional social media manager and writer and can be found wherever there are good conversations and cake. By night, she is a fierce crusader against poorly written characters, framing and consequences in writing, scholarly discussions about media, and overanalyzing comic books. In her spare time, she writes for Fangirl Nation, podcasts about literature on Unfortunately, Required...

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May 13, 2021

Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is senior lecturer and team lead at Creative Business at HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. She holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect, costuming and creativity in fan cultures. Her current research focuses on participatory culture on new media platforms,  specifically in relation to identity, narratives and play....

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