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A guest lecture at Aoyama Gakuin University On Thursday, December 14, I went to the Shibuya campus of Aoyama Gakuin University to give a guest lecture in a gender & law class (taught in English). It was a big class, consisting of approx. 140 students, mostly beginners-level ESL speakers. That made giving the lecture quite
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I was interviewed by a student in the UK and here are excerpts from my answers. On recent changes in Japan regarding LGBTQ politics First and foremost, the acronym LGBT has gotten currency in mainstream media. Many people now know what it means or at least have heard of it and have a vague idea of
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Amelia said she wanted to interview me for the AniFem website, and I agreed, part of the reason being it’s a new website and yet they promise to pay all writers starting 2017. That should not be a big deal, but it kinda is when so many writers around the world are underpaid or not paid at all. That, and I just liked the idea of creating a sort of like an online hub where you can find lots of queer and feminist information, resources, critiques etc. about otaku cultures.
I found this animated GIF by glaad for the ENDA campaign. I added a few more slides to show the larger picture of the way that labor laws operate in the U.S. To read more about this issue, click here to read Yasmin Nair’s “ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya.”
I have always been sick of the born-this-way rhetoric that mainstream gay activism has so proudly spread all over the U.S. I don’t have anything against those who were born gay or born whatever, but feeling that one was born gay and saying so are two different things. I understand that the born-this-way rhetoric has
Sometimes I suppress my urgeto cut the rainbow band on my wristjust so carefully, along those lineswhere colors meet, where we meet Sometimes I caress my nailshoping someday they’ll shine like pearls’cause they’re the only body part I lovewhere colors meet, where we meet But we never meetwe never see each otherinsteadwe look awayaway,from all
This piece of writing was submitted to the Office for LGBTQ Student Affairs at the University of Chicago as part of their OUTober: Coming Out Stories Project. The original text can be found in the project website under “Masaki.” Published Text Name: Masaki Affiliation (Staff, Faculty, Alumni, Student): Student Division/Office/School/Program: MAPSS Coming Out Story: I
When I first got that name, “gay,” I felt jubilant. I accepted the name and told people that I was gay. Since I was also bisexual from time to time, I sometimes called myself a “part-time bisexual.” At that time, I lived in the country where I was recognized as racial minority, which already made
At Below the Belt, Someone (I’m sorry but I can’t find their name) posted an entry on class divisions and the invisible working-class in queer community. Granted, economic disparity within queer community, or at least gay community, isn’t really represented in the media or quite existent in our urban-washed cultural consciousness, and that’s a problem,
Continue Reading “Don’t leave ’em alone, but don’t bother, either.”
People say, “happiness is all that matters,” “it’s fine as long as you’re happy,” “I just want you to be happy,” “you gotta make yourself happy,” and all that shit. Don’t get me wrong, I know what they mean. They’re nice people, probably the nicest kind of human beings. But it just annoys me when
Continue Reading “Unhappy Queer In Denial – I Am Not Who I Am And That’s Fine, Thank You Very Much”