The Texas Renaissance Festival is in the spotlight this summer thanks to an HBO docuseries (our own Jeff Balke covered it here) and a new season of Crime Wave dubbed 'Renaissance, TX.' The latter is a grim look inside the fantasyland whose critics say it has become a place where...
dubbed"Renaissance, TX." The latter is a grim look inside the fantasyland whose critics say it has become a place where sexual assault and violence are enabled.
Ren Fest has for years billed itself as a safe place for immersive fantasy. I started going in high school as part of a theater class annual field trip. It was supposed to be a setting for high-octane Let’s Pretend and cosplay. . The podcast makes it pretty clear that the public festival part of the yearly event is mostly there to fund what happens after dark. Despite catering to families, the vibe of Ren Fest gets a little more Frat Boy every year, the creeps get bolder, and it seems like a kink scene for people who find the rules in other kink scenes too restraining. As the podcast says, “are people, here to live their fantasies, or ?” There is a real sense that Ren Fest is trying less and less to be a theme park.
Which us why"Renaissance, TX" is so heartbreaking to listen to. Ren Fest is the only place a lot of people feel accepted, and TRF is particularly easy-going when it comes to what counts as “renaissance.” You can tell that people love being there. I remember feeling at ease there specifically because it was somewhere that upended the rules of normal society that often made me miserable.
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