Ruthanne Okafor-Price

Cosplay historian and recovering academic who left a half-finished dissertation on fan labor to write about the culture she kept citing. Ruthanne traces lineage — who wore it first, which forums debated it, what WorldCon panel started the argument — with the doggedness of someone who still formats mental footnotes. Her features are long, footnoted, and somehow always end up at a 1970s Star Trek convention.