I've seen several pictures of PoCs cosplaying as white characters, and generally they are accepted and encouraged. Do you think the same level of acceptance would be applied to white people cosplaying as PoC characters? I haven't seen it happen yet, mayb

The general sentiment seems to be (and I’m sure there are exceptions), that most cosplayers seem to be with people cosplaying characters outside their race. But for legitimate, obvious reasons, they are not okay with blackface, brownface, or yellowface make-up.

I’m sure it gets a little trickier with characters that specifically represent a culture…I would think people just need to be sensitive enough to know that a white person showing up in Native American headdress is going to be given the serious side-eye.

We’ve seen several times recently that some people online make ignorant comments when a POC plays a white character. Hopefully enough people will make it clear that that is completely unacceptable.

But I am not an expert.  Lots of people here know both issues of race and cosplaying better than I do. Maybe some would like to chime in?