Thousands of people came together over the weekend for BLERDCON 2022, a fun and safe space designed to celebrate people’s diversity in color, culture, gender and sexual identities. And the convention just keeps getting bigger and better every year.

The BLERDCON 2022 convention was the largest yet for Washington DC. And beyond the fun, games and cosplay were plenty of interesting and serious panel discussions like the one about speculative fiction that our reporter attended.