Lesbian Halloween Costumes and Femslash Friendly Cosplay Couples 

We’ve been putting together a list of suggestions for individual and couple lesbian cosplays; the couple ones tend to be popular femslash couples of characters that, while they may have some support for being queer, would not be automatically recognised as such (e.g. Poison Ivy and Harley works as a couple, but Harley on her own? Not so much).

We’ve been trying to pick some awesome lesbian characters who are recognisable, lesbian/bisexual/queer and actually make for good costumes. Most of the lists we’ve looked at… well, I don’t recognise half the characters and of the rest, well, made for very boring costumes.

We’re considering actually writing up ‘how to’ costume pages for some of the characters as well (if we have time!).

Does anyone have suggestions for more costumes? (You can add them straight to the list but you need a Squidoo account; otherwise just reblog and give us suggestions in the comments).

novelsaboutqueerpeople:

The science fiction genre has always made me nervous. Maybe it’s the thought that sci-fi events might someday be possible, or maybe it’s an aftereffect of seeing parts of Doctor Who and Star Trek when I was still young enough to be terrified by them. In any case, it was only thanks to a Lambda Literary award reference that I picked up Ammonite, a book set first on a space station and then on the distant planet the station orbits—a planet home to a potent native virus. I was looking for more queer novels to write about, so, cautiously, I started reading—and then became so absorbed in the world Nicola Griffith created that I almost missed my bus home from the library.

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I need to reread this book, I don’t really remember it properly anymore - it’s been about seven or eight years since I read it. Oh, it officially marked the beginning of my Quest for Lesbian Fiction. Nicola Griffith is a fantastic author, by the way. Read her books. ALL OF THEM (here’s a link to all our Nicola Griffith reviews - some of them are old and short, because she really was the first author I wanted to review, way back in the mists of time when the site first started. I literally only wrote a couple of paragraphs for Ammonite. That’s practically inconceivable (and yes that word does mean what I think it means) now.).

Incidentally it won a Tiptree award, a Lambda Literary Award, a Premio Italia award and was a finalist for the British Science Fiction and Arthur C. Clark awards (that’s right. Non-GLBTQ awards).