Black History Month 2023: Jenevieve Devereaux Cosplay

On this first day of this year’s Black History Month, we present a cosplay retrospective gallery of the wonderful Massachusetts-based cosplayer jenevievedevereauxcosplay. The first photos I took of Jen were at Another Anime Convention in the Fall of 2016. But she had been cosplaying for eight years already at that point.

In the gallery linked below, I have examples of some of the fandom types that Jen cosplays from, but if you go to her Instagram account linked above you can see an even wider variety. Among those are video games (Final Fantasy, Pokémon), anime (My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer), other animated works (Zootopia, Legend of Korra), comic books (Starfire, Wonder Woman) and more.

Jen also has a very strong commitment to social and racial justice. Her Linktree page — accessible from her Instagram — has the usual links to other social media platforms, but those are dwarfed by the number of links to ways people can help with specific justice issues. She has even appeared on local Boston news talking about the issue of racism in cosplay.

The most recent photos I’ve taken of Jen are the ones from the Todoroki Valentine’s Day set, taken less than a month before covid-19 shut down the convention scene pretty much completely for two years.

We use Smugmug to present cosplay photo galleries and post all photos there, with a link to each gallery in its own gallery article. This allows us to give you higher resolution images to download — still for free. To view the entire gallery, just click on the image below.

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