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9 months ago

A photo of Sarah looking at her notes as she delivers her seminar paper. She’s wearing glasses, red lipstick, and a pink sweater. A bookshelf is located to her right.

A Zoom screenshot of Sarah sharing her presentation slides. It reads “Afro/Japanese Placemaking: An Inquiry into Black Cosplayers Geographies at Anime Conventions.” It also features images of several cosplayers, including Sarah from JJK, Spy x Family, and Inuyasha.

I also presented at the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Pop Cultures Symposium organized by @aurelievpetit.bsky.social and @meganrose.bsky.social! I spoke about placemaking, race, and gender in the context of #cosplay. Met lots of scholars doing incredible work 🙏🏽

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9 months ago

Thank you so much, Lucy! Your question was fabulous. I really appreciate you coming along 💫

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10 months ago

Absolutely thrilled to be delivering a keynote for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives in Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025. Please register if you haven’t already! Can’t wait to think with everyone on digital mediations of Afro-Japanese encounters and #otakuhotgirlstudies. ✨

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10 months ago

Flier with abstract that you can find at the preregistration link.

Hybrid Lecture
@meganrose.bsky.social
"Hyperfeminine Harajuku: Exploring Queer KAWAII Practices in a Tokyo Subcultural District"
Kanagawa U, Minatomirai Campus, M8015
Wed 21 May 3:30–5pm

In-person preregistration forms.gle/7FF8yLSmDkRF...

Zoom (no prereg)
Meeting ID: 985 5806 9693 Passcode: KUMMC

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10 months ago

$Abstract: In this talk I explore the creative practices of Harajuku’s subcultures. Harajuku is a town in Tokyo that is a safe space for women, men and gender diverse people as early as the 1970s. Over recent decades, numerous KAWAII fashion subcultures have emerged in this district, each with their own specific conventions, aesthetics, purposes and intents including lolita fashion, decora fashion, yume kawaii, fairy kei, menhera. KAWAII is a significant cultural site for marginalized people to find collective safety and creatively work through their experiences and find a place of belonging. In the increasingly fractured social landscape of Tokyo, an eclectic group of artists, photographers, musicians, and designers come together in a constellation of spectacular bodies to play with KAWAII fashion. Their efforts are supported by underground queer feminist movements of Tokyo that protest, disrupt, and agitate through art, talk, and zine collectives in a blaze of shimmering hot pink. The talk considers the differing ways KAWAII is queered by these groups as an expression of dis/affection, in/dependence and a/sexuality. Queering KAWAII refers to a process of estrangement and de- familiarisation of cuteness as a form of hyperfemininity. As part of global queer femme cultures, hyperfemininity contaminates gender binaries, and exaggerates and pushes the parameters of patriarchal femininity as a form of disruption, experimentation, and reflection. Centred on the affective stories, fashion objects and garments and texts that KAWAII fashion practitioners create, this talk explores the social motivations, politics and ideologies of this subcultural movement. The talk traverses themes of marginality, vulnerability, and women and gender diverse people’s defiance in facing structural sexism, sexual violence, queerphobia, and ableism. To Attend Online (Zoom): Access the Zoom Meeting via the following Meeting ID and Passcode. Preregistration is NOT required to attend via Zoom. Me…$

Excited to be giving a public lecture at Kanagawa University, 21st of May about my research for my book on Harajuku (currently in the works)💫💫

“Hyperfeminine Harajuku:
Exploring Queer KAWAII Practices in a Tokyo Subcultural District”

It’s both online and in person- details on the flyer 🌈💕

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10 months ago

Feeling super grateful and thankful to all those coming together out of support for the women and LGBT people who form an integral part of Japanese popular culture. This solidarity means everything, thank you! Over 200 registrants so far. Check out this free online event below ⬇️💕

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10 months ago

Another year, another great conference on Queer and Feminist povs in Japanese popular culture!

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10 months ago

I’m very excited to be giving a keynote to promote #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social at this online symposium organized by @meganrose.bsky.social &
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️‍🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️‍⚧️

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10 months ago

ALL of these panels and panelists look AMAZING for this May! I'm especially interested in "Early-2000s Yaoi Aesthetics as Tools for Cultural Disruption" and "Australia’s Regulation on Explicit and Erotic Material"

PLEASE check this event out, it may even inspire you to contribute in the future! ⭐🤩

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10 months ago

Check out this amazing (free) online symposium "Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025" May 19 to 22!

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10 months ago

This was SUCH a lovely event last year, so I highly recommend checking it out. The program for this year's iteration is looking 🔥🔥🔥

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10 months ago

And YES, you are reading well: keynotes from Dr. Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Dr. Kimberly Hassel and Dr. Michelle Ho!!! Ok, star-studded event!!

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10 months ago

🌎🌍🌏 We tried our best to accommodate multiple time zones!! Come come come 🫶👐 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

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10 months ago

I’m SO excited for all of our panels and participants!! 😍 Here are abstracts from the schedule below (purple is Japan times and blue is EST) 👇 papers on otome games, Black women and anime, queer subtext in Gundam, Yuri manga, etc. Papers on Persona 5, Dororo, Ghost Fighter!!! ✊

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10 months ago

Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025 A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

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10 months ago

Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!

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10 months ago

Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection This seminar, coinciding with the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives, took place on 8 April 2025. It features Megan Catherine Rose and Deborah Lupton, on behalf of the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health and the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre. This research was conducted by the Vitalities Lab, UNSW, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (CE200100005), and funded partially or fully by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're the official channel for the wonderful community members of UNSW Sydney, a brilliantly located university between the coast and the city. UNSW Sydney is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities. We're a welcoming community, promoting lasting knowledge and creating an academic environment where outstanding students and scholars from around the world can be inspired to excel in their programs of study and research.

You can now watch the launch of the report 'Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection by Dr Megan Rose @meganrose.bsky.social and Prof Deborah Lupton @dalupton.bsky.social (UNSW ADM+S) on YouTube.

👉Watch now: bit.ly/3Yd2X4i

#neurodiversity #AutismSupport #autismresearch

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11 months ago

トランスジェンダーへのバックラッシュに揺れるアメリカの情勢を学ぶ勉強会 2025年現在、トランプ大統領の再選により、アメリカではトランスジェンダーに対する大規模なバックラッシュが生じています。医療、教育、パスポートの性別記載、軍隊での雇用、さらにはSN...

【拡散希望】　
「トランスジェンダーへのバックラッシュに揺れるアメリカの情勢を学ぶ勉強会」

Tネットさんの新規イベント。
2024年5月11日（日）10:00～
オンライン。参加費無料（カンパチケット有）。日本語通訳つきます。

いまアメリカで最も忙しいトランスジェンダーのジャーナリストであるエリン・リードさんと、モンタナ州議会議員のゾーイー・ゼファーさんが登壇！
トランプ政権でLGBTの権利が後退している…？でも何が起きてるのかよく分からない…。そんな方は多いはずです。ぜひご参加ください。
tnet202505.peatix.com

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11 months ago

Publication - Contemporary LGBTQ+ Politics in Japan: Policy Issues, Discourses and Developments, and the role of Foreign Actors - Leiden Asia Centre Japan has publicly committed to creating "a society where all people can exercise their abilities and find their lives worth living," and to combating "prejudice and discrimination based on sexual ori...

Pleased to announce that my report for the @leidenasiacentre.nl, on Japanese LGBTQ+ politics, has been published!

In this publication, I cover some of the latest developments concerning key policy issues, such as Japan's lack of marriage equality, and analyse factors influencing policymaking.

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11 months ago

Our report Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection is now available for download from here:

apo.org.au/node/330234

This report is for the neurodiverse community and features beautiful illustrations by Sarah Firth.

Thank you again everyone for your support!

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11 months ago

A new autistic-led project, Autistic Supports for Comfort, Care, and Connection, reveals the everyday and creative ways autistic adults use objects, services, and creatures to support their wellbeing. A new autistic-led project, Autistic Supports for Comfort, Care, and Connection, reveals the everyday and creative ways autistic adults use objects, services, and creatures to support their wellbeing.

Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of @dalupton.bsky.social and my report on Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection. It was really energizing and exciting to have such a great turn out and receive such great feedback!
www.admscentre.org.au/new-study-ex...

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11 months ago

Report Launch: Autism supports for comfort, care and connection: sharing voices & experiences of autistic people, exploring how they use a rich mix of non-human supports to meet sensory & emotional needs to build meaningful relationships. Register here admscentre.org/event-autism...

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11 months ago

「いないことにされてきた」者同士の感情が交差する。漫画「半分姉弟」が紡ぐ、「ハーフ」と呼ばれる人たちの物語 「当事者性が薄いことほど、無責任で無神経な発言やコメントをしてしまった経験って実は多くの人にあるのではないでしょうか」（藤見よいこさん）。漫画「半分姉弟」は、それぞれに異なるルーツを持つハーフたちが主人公の群像劇だ。

いつも日本のエスニックマイノリティに寄り添ってくれている記者の國﨑さんにインタビューをしていただきました🙆‍♀️
前編では取材の中で知って感じたことや、作品制作の中で考えたことなどについて話してます！
ぜひ読んでください💪✨

「いないことにされてきた」者同士の感情が交差する。漫画「半分姉弟」が紡ぐ、「ハーフ」と呼ばれる人たちの物語

www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_... #

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11 months ago

Next month at Penn: A symposium on Premodern Trans Studies featuring
@transliterature.bsky.social, @ldevun.bsky.social, @badinfinity2.bsky.social, @hamlethologram.bsky.social, and Nat Rivkin ! Philly come thru!

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11 months ago

Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives.

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/autism-sup...

Interested in how autistic people find comfort, care and connection? Tune in to our free online seminar. All welcome. It will also be recorded to catch up later

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11 months ago

【My First Book is Being Published】
I’m happy to announce that at the end of this month, my first book, 非二元的な性を生きる：性的マイノリティのカテゴリー運用史Living Nonbinary: A History of the Categorization of Gender/Sexual Minorities, based on my doctoral dissertation, will be published by Akashi Shoten.
#transgender

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11 months ago

Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives.

Join @dalupton.bsky.social and I for the launch of our report on non-human supports for autistic people on the 8th April. It’s online and free! Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/autism-sup...

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11 months ago

In case I haven’t made it clear, my kimono dressing services will always be LGBT+ friendly. I’ve been more than happy to style trans clients in the past, and I want kimono to be welcome for everyone.

Kimono is fashion. Even here in Japan, I see men styling with women’s kimono. It’s about expression

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11 months ago

宣伝用漫画(英語)

Hi there, everyone!

My name is Yamauchi Nao.
I was born in Japan in 1993, and I identify as non-binary and genderfluid.
I currently make manga and live with
my partner and our dog.

Right now, I'm looking for publishers interested in publishing this book in languages other than Japanese.

A book about fashion
by a non-binary person living in Japan

I love wearing a lot of vintage
secondhand clothing, but I also
wear other styles like lolita!
I’ve also written some essays about
my outfits and about being non-binary.

Includes 5 essays, 2 comics,
4 columns and 62 illustrations

If any of this sounds interesting to you,
please spread the word about my book
or contact me directly if you are interested
in publishing it overseas!

Email me at yamauchinaomanga@gmail.com

I wrote this book to spread awareness
about non-binary people and fight against
stereotypes and discrimination.

I hope you’ll consider reading it
and helping me get the word out!

内容のサンプル(英語訳つき)

● November 9th 2013
My partner and I met some people at university and ended up having a wedding ceremony thanks to them. The only blood relative who came was my older sister. This is the special outfit I chose to wear at the wedding reception, although I actually wear it all the time… The KENZO pants are a little motheaten at the back, so I need to get them patched up. I love this outfit’s beautiful silhouette, and the complex embroidery on the jacket spices it up a lot.

UNIQLO HEATTECH underneath

An embroidered jacket from H&M’s 2013 collection

Secondhand KENZO pants from PASS THE BATON
in Omotesando that I’ve had for ages

Pumps that I bought from who knows where

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● April 22nd 2022
It’s been a while since I participated in the Tokyo Pride parade. In an interview before the parade this year, one of the organizers opposed the use of the phrase “give us our human rights.” I was so shocked and sad that I felt like I had to do something, so I quickly slapped together a sign and jumped on the train. This is what we were wearing. It was rough being called “ma’am” over and over again as I wandered the booths at Pride. I didn’t feel like I belonged there.

Nightgown I found at a vintage store called “curious” in Omotesando

Jane Marple blouse

Semi-custom skirt

Tights from Tabio

Repetto shoes

TSUMORI CHISATO shirtdress

Vintage coat I found at SLOW in Omotesando

Clothes from Dot and Stripes

ecco shoes

We need to talk about human rights

Give us our human rights

内容のサンプル
5essays, 2mangas, 4columns and 62 illustrations

🏳️‍⚧️📢 CALLING ALL PUBLISHERS! 📢🏳️‍⚧️
"Non-Binary Lookbook" has comics, art, and essays about fashion and gender by a non-binary person in Japan.
Want to see this book published outside of Japan? Then get in touch and boost this post!
✨Email me at yamauchinaomanga@gmail.com✨

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