Cripping the Comic Con 2017 Morning Plenary Panel
Date: April 22, 2017
LIVE STREAMED PLENARY: OUR OWN ICONS! AN INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT
Daniel White (Department of Ability)
Emily White (Department of Ability, CripCon17 Youth Ambassador)
Abby Kessler (Cosplayer, CripCon17 Youth Ambassador)
Gilles Stromberg (Illustrator, Co-Creator of the Access Avengers)
Joseph Munisteri (Cosplayer, Writer)
Nancy Amaro (Cosplayer, Designer)
Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri (Co-Creator of the CripCon)
Moderated by Diane R. Wiener (Coordinator and Co-Creator of the CripCon).
[Image Description: A panel of the people listed above, seated at a long rectangular table. Diane, moderating, is at an adjacent podium bearing the Syracuse University seal. Diane is wearing a black suit and a red cape; she also has a furry glove-paw on her left hand. To Diane's left are: Emily, in her Department of Ability character Emily's outfit, including a gold shirt and blue mask; Dan White, Emily's father, wearing a Dr. Who shirt and a velvet jacket; Abby Kessler, wearing a brown hooded cape; Rachael, wearing a purple zip up jacket; Joe and Nancy are in cosplay as Fear and Depression, from Locke & Key, an American comic book series written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez, and published by IDW Publishing; Gilles is wearing a white button-down shirt and a CripCon communication badge with the color green showing, meaning that Gilles is open to communicating with others. For more information about our CripCon Communication Badges, based upon the excellent leadership and work of the Autistic advocacy movement, please contact sudcc@syr.edu.]