LGBTQ+ Representation in Japanese Media (Q&A)
An undergraduate student currently undertaking a class assignment asked me these questions and they kindly gave consent to my sharing their questions & my a...
Author: Masaki C. Matsumoto
A queer writer and YouTuber. UChicago MA dropout. My preferred pronouns are they/them. Read more
Hyper Japan LGBT+ Japan Online Panel
I will be on panel at Hyper Japan on July 26th at 4PM BST (July 27th at 1AM JST). Set a reminder on YouTube via the embeded video below. Join our guests for a d...
A Yelling Man in Japanese Train and the Problem with Speaking For Someone Else
I started using my 2nd Japanese Twitter account a.k.a. my bar business account to share short videos, like this one about homophobia and J-pop vocal covers. In ...
Q&A video: Is Homophobia Wrong?
I updated my YouTube channel with the short video I had previously uploaded to Twitter (my 2nd Japanese account). It’s a Q&A video where I answer this...
A Japanese YouTuber Trashes BLM and I’m Debunking His Bullshit
Trigger warning: racism and anti-Blackness. A friend of mine sent me this video via Twitter DM today. I thought for a moment the text in the thumbnail read R...
8 Japan LGBT/Q resources in English
This video is about 3 years old but for some reason I didn’t post it here on my blog. It’s on my English channel, which I’m rejuvenating (fina...
When Rainbow Flags Make It To National Television #Japan #LGBTQ #MISIA
When I started college, there already existed prides and rainbow flags. I didn't have to create queer spaces to join or queer symbols to identify with. They wer...
Social Justice English#001: marginalized, prejudice, problematic, unacceptable
One of the reasons I started this channel was because I had activist/scholar friends who struggled with English when communicating with fellow activists, resear...
Sexist Anime Is Japanese Culture?
How do we talk about sexism, heterosexism, and ciscentrism in anime/manga when it’s part of “their culture”? Can we criticize misogynous, homo...
Introduction to Logic: Is lawmaker Mio Sugita’s homophobic argument VALID or SOUND?
In this English lesson video, I explain to ESL learners the meaning of the word “sound” in the sense of an argument being logical and based on truth...