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Links: “Half”/ハーフ: Mixed-Race in Japan
I got a great comment from Maya on “Video: ‘White Japanese People – 白人系日本人’” about how mixed-race people living in Japan are also often treated as “foreigners,” and I wanted to share some recent links...
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"Wibbly-Wobbly Sexy-Wexy": Queer Comic Anthologies
Reblogged from Comparative Geeks: Guest post by Leah of The Lobster Dance, a blog about Japan, gender, media, and culture (with a heavy dose of manga and geekery). People assume that time is a strict...
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Geek Girl Con Recaps #1: Creating Safe Spaces in the Period of “Peak Geek”
I attended Geek Girl Con in Seattle over the weekend, and it was beautiful. I’d like to recap some of the panels and provide some commentary and helpful links. Image by postcardsfromspace First of all,...
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Halloween Gender Reader, October 2013
Halloween! Let’s celebrate my favorite holiday with a (mostly positive) gender reader! Source: Wikipedia. Media Analysis Writing about horror films and gender. Andi Zeilser. “The Feminist Power of...
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Geek Girl Recaps #2: A Geekdom Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
The spiritual companion of the Geek Girl Con panel “Changing Culture in Mainstream and Alternative Spaces” was a discussion of the problem of bullying in the cosplay community and possible solutions....
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Explorations into being Hafu: Megumi Nishikura at TEDxKyoto 2013
Reblogged from JAPANsociology: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqYBhLh1IM&w=500&h=312] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqYBhLh1IM by Robert Moorehead In September, filmmaker Megumi...
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Japan Gender Reader, November 2013
In this gender reader, doing some catching up from October (when I did a spooky gender reader instead): harassment of non-Japanese women in Japan; bottoming out a whopping #105 in the Gender Gap Index;...
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Japan Gender Reader, Dec. 2013
In this gender reader: more on Abenomics, Disney dimorphism, video games before gendered marketing, and more. HULK SMASH YOUR DELICATE LADY HAND. Image from Frozen via Family Inequality. Mind the Gap...
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Reblog: All Nippon Airways uses crude racial humor in TV commercial
Via Japan Probe: Image via Japan Probe. ACTUAL SCREENSHOT from the commercial. Two Japanese men in ANA uniforms are discussing the new possibilities of international travel that ANA is offering. One of...
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All Hail the Glow Cloud
Reblogged from Have You Nerd: All Hail the Glow Cloud: How Welcome to Night Vale Won My Heart By: Leah Zoller I tend to describe the podcast Welcome to Night Vale as a surrealist fantasy version of...
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Reactions to the ANA Commercial, White-Face, and Racism in Japan
Some things to consider for those writing about the ANA commercial: I get that if you’re looking at the commercial from the perspective of a person who lives in a country with a white majority that the...
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The Tip of the Nose-berg
Reblogged from Lucky ☆ Hill: This is a very long post. To summarize for the TL;DR crowd, what I'm getting at is that the stereotype of "Gaijin-san" doesn't exist in a vacuum, that there is a host of...
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Hurry! Hafu Film Now at Nanagei Cinema in Osaka
Leah:More information on screenings of Hafu/ハーフ documentary in Osaka courtesy of Japan Sociology: Originally posted on JAPANsociology: Folks in the Kansai region who missed seeing the Hafu film during...
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Japan Gender Reader: Feb. 2014
In this gender reader: the gendered politics of skin-whitening creams; public bathing; bad reporting on the “sex strike”; Facebook genders; and more–and I even think we can get through this without a...
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Reblog: Overlooking the Oppressed Minority in “Oppressed Majority”
Leah:“Although this video may be challenging gender inequality, it does so at the expense of upholding racist ideologies about France’s Other.” Originally posted on : The short film, “ Oppressed...
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Bainbridge Island Japanese Memorial
All images mine unless otherwise noted. “This wall marks the path where, on March 30, 1942, two hundred and twenty-seven friends, neighbors, classmates, and coworkers left their homes, jobs, farms,...
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Reblog: On Immigrants ‘Semi-Adapting’: Self-Defense, Not Resentment
Leah:A look the concepts of “semi-adapting” and racial place in society and in immigrant communities for a Nikkei Peruvian who migrated to Japan. Originally posted on JAPANsociology: by Robert...
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Feminist Halloween, Day 3: Take Back Halloween
I always do a little blurb on Take Back Halloween, since the site has been around as long as this blog has! The site aims to show readers how to make positive feminist costumes for Halloween. Bessie...
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Feminist Halloween, Day 10: Sleepy Hollow (Fox, 2013-)
Sleepy Hollow just kicked off its second season, and I wanted to highlight the show here. I’ve always been fond of “The Tale of the Headless Horseman” in all of its incarnations and had a lot of...
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Feminist Halloween, Day 19: Problematic Costume Reader
Every blog I follow seems to be covering problematic costumes this week, and you’ve still got one day to read up before the big day! Racist, sexist, fatphobic, transphobic, and appropriative costumes...
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