I don’t have the right to consume the misfortune of people in Japan
*This post was originally written as a response to a friend of mine’s Facebook post. Minor modifications have been made.* Japan tsunami and earthquake: 30 children sit silent in classroom after parents...
View ArticleFake (?) MLK Quote and Its Inappropriateness in the Context of Osama bin...
OLD POST! OLD POST! ORIGINALLY POSTED ONLINE MAY 3, 2011. The following quote has been and still is circulating rapidly on the Internet, even spreading beyond the English-language online communities....
View ArticleThe Privilege To Say ‘I Don’t’
As I was going through the daily routine of browsing Facebook & Twitter, I found a NYT article, Gay Couples, Choosing to Say ‘I Don’t’, the title of which caught my eye, as I oppose the institution...
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Pass ENDA?
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...
View ArticleDon’t leave ‘em alone, but don’t bother, either.
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...
View ArticleBilly Elliot and Me
From September 8 to 12, I was in London. The flight connecting from Kuala Lumpur to Heathrow, London was delayed for a good 14 hours and me and another presenter, Sonja, were sent to a hotel by heavy...
View ArticleI Want To Drown
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...
View ArticleMy Interview on Feminism, Queer Activism, and Representation in Japanese Pop...
Amelia Cook, Editor-in-chief at Anime Feminist, contacted me after I posted this video on YouTube. Amelia said she wanted to interview me for the AniFem website, and I agreed, part of the reason being...
View ArticleQueer voices in Japan are f**king diverse
In this vlog from 2 years and half ago, I talk about allyship, gay marriage/partnership, representation, and Western queer media——all relevant topics to this date. LGBT Japan, Western Media, and Gender...
View ArticleInterview: Filmmaker Graham Kolbeins (“Queer Japan”)
Queer Filmmaker Graham Kolbeins talks about interviewing queer people, funding for queer documentary filmmakers, creative freedom vs focus, the Western gaze, the male gaze, the issue of representation...
View ArticleDebunking myths about LGBTQ politics & cultures in Japan
“Hate crime is nonexistent in Japan,” “Japan only recently started having pride marches,” “homosexuality is accepted in Japan because of the traditional male-male shudo sexual/romantic culture,”...
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