Your mom is gay in japanese
“Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” ~Coretta Scott King
Recently I’ve had a chance to participate in a few workshops that paired older members of the LGBTQ+ community with folks from a younger generation. I was heartened to hear how eager the current crop of LGBTQ+ youth and allies were to learn about our history in instruct to avoid repeating it. It helped that the most recent session was run by Jacob “Jake” Kelley who hosted the event as their performative persona Trixie Valentine. Kelley made history fun with trivia games and discussion prompts and presided over the event with clarity, wisdom, humor and a vast knowledge of history and health information. Kelley is an expert in sex education, risk reduction, STIs, HIV, LGBTQIA+ akin topics, and gender- and sexuality-related education. They also train individuals and corporate clients, locally and nationwide, on queer-inclusive sex training and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. They also do content writing and consulting under the banner of their organization Mx. Kelley Queer Learning, and their secondary corporation Juicy with Jake. Oh, and they’re also currently pursuing their
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Since BL and fujoshi discourse is the hot topic du jour, let’s talk a bit about gay stereotypes in Japanese manga and anime.
I’m seeing a worrying number of people not only saying that all BL and fujoshi promote homophobic stereotypes, but that BL is the primary or sole instigator of homophobia in Japanese society (excuse me, I choked on drink there).
For those who don’t know, Boy’s Adore (BL) is a niche category of shoujo/josei manga that focuses on M/M relationships (commonly known in the west as “yaoi”, though that is a misnomer). It’s still frowned upon, both for creature gay content and for being mainly romance aimed at women. The pos “fujoshi” — used today to mean “female fan of BL” — even has seriously misogynistic origins.
So far, BL is published on specific magazines, and most anime adaptations are OVAs that aren’t aired on TV. Although it has a significant accompanying, it’s definitely not famous enough to change the opinions on gay men of the entire anime fanbase, much less of Japanese society as a whole.
Homophobia in Japan has a long history, but one of the most impactful chapters was the Meiji Restoration
811: The One Place I Can’t Go
Bim Adewunmi
I Coulda Grown Big in Japan.
Atsuko Okatsuka is a comedian, and she's incredibly fasten with her grandma, Ying-Hsi. They talk several times a day. They're together every weekend. And Atsuko makes these incredible videos of herself dancing, while her grandmother plays incidental hype woman.
Her grandma raised her, but for a while now, Atsuko has joked on stage that her grandmother stole her from her dad when she was little and brought her and her mother from Japan to live in the US.
Atsuko Okatsuka
From the outside, she looks like this sweet, unassuming old Asian woman, but she's a liar.
[LAUGHTER]
She a liar. When I was eight, she told me we were coming to the States for a two-month vacation, so I packed lightly. And then we never left. Yeah, true story, yeah, yeah. And till this day, we're still dealing with the kidnapping in our own ways.
Bim Adewunmi
But the authenticity is, Atsuko only has the sketchiest idea of what really happened. She doesn't really know how she ended up in America. Her family doesn't discuss it. Talking about it has been a no-go zone for her and her family. But recently, Atsuko decided to find out
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There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your source web server. Cloudflare monitor BL, “Okama”, and gay stereotypes in animanga
Since BL and fujoshi discourse is the hot topic du jour, let’s talk a bit about gay stereotypes in Japanese manga and anime.
I’m seeing a worrying number of people not only saying that all BL and fujoshi promote homophobic stereotypes, but that BL is the primary or sole instigator of homophobia in Japanese society (excuse me, I choked on drink there).
For those who don’t know, Boy’s Adore (BL) is a niche category of shoujo/josei manga that focuses on M/M relationships (commonly known in the west as “yaoi”, though that is a misnomer). It’s still frowned upon, both for creature gay content and for being mainly romance aimed at women. The pos “fujoshi” — used today to mean “female fan of BL” — even has seriously misogynistic origins.
So far, BL is published on specific magazines, and most anime adaptations are OVAs that aren’t aired on TV. Although it has a significant accompanying, it’s definitely not famous enough to change the opinions on gay men of the entire anime fanbase, much less of Japanese society as a whole.
Homophobia in Japan has a long history, but one of the most impactful chapters was the Meiji Restoration
811: The One Place I Can’t Go
Bim Adewunmi
I Coulda Grown Big in Japan.
Atsuko Okatsuka is a comedian, and she's incredibly fasten with her grandma, Ying-Hsi. They talk several times a day. They're together every weekend. And Atsuko makes these incredible videos of herself dancing, while her grandmother plays incidental hype woman.
Her grandma raised her, but for a while now, Atsuko has joked on stage that her grandmother stole her from her dad when she was little and brought her and her mother from Japan to live in the US.
Atsuko Okatsuka
From the outside, she looks like this sweet, unassuming old Asian woman, but she's a liar.
[LAUGHTER]
She a liar. When I was eight, she told me we were coming to the States for a two-month vacation, so I packed lightly. And then we never left. Yeah, true story, yeah, yeah. And till this day, we're still dealing with the kidnapping in our own ways.
Bim Adewunmi
But the authenticity is, Atsuko only has the sketchiest idea of what really happened. She doesn't really know how she ended up in America. Her family doesn't discuss it. Talking about it has been a no-go zone for her and her family. But recently, Atsuko decided to find out
.
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There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your source web server. Cloudflare monitor BL, “Okama”, and gay stereotypes in animanga
Since BL and fujoshi discourse is the hot topic du jour, let’s talk a bit about gay stereotypes in Japanese manga and anime.
I’m seeing a worrying number of people not only saying that all BL and fujoshi promote homophobic stereotypes, but that BL is the primary or sole instigator of homophobia in Japanese society (excuse me, I choked on drink there).
For those who don’t know, Boy’s Adore (BL) is a niche category of shoujo/josei manga that focuses on M/M relationships (commonly known in the west as “yaoi”, though that is a misnomer). It’s still frowned upon, both for creature gay content and for being mainly romance aimed at women. The pos “fujoshi” — used today to mean “female fan of BL” — even has seriously misogynistic origins.
So far, BL is published on specific magazines, and most anime adaptations are OVAs that aren’t aired on TV. Although it has a significant accompanying, it’s definitely not famous enough to change the opinions on gay men of the entire anime fanbase, much less of Japanese society as a whole.
Homophobia in Japan has a long history, but one of the most impactful chapters was the Meiji Restoration
811: The One Place I Can’t Go
Bim Adewunmi
I Coulda Grown Big in Japan.
Atsuko Okatsuka is a comedian, and she's incredibly fasten with her grandma, Ying-Hsi. They talk several times a day. They're together every weekend. And Atsuko makes these incredible videos of herself dancing, while her grandmother plays incidental hype woman.
Her grandma raised her, but for a while now, Atsuko has joked on stage that her grandmother stole her from her dad when she was little and brought her and her mother from Japan to live in the US.
Atsuko Okatsuka
From the outside, she looks like this sweet, unassuming old Asian woman, but she's a liar.
[LAUGHTER]
She a liar. When I was eight, she told me we were coming to the States for a two-month vacation, so I packed lightly. And then we never left. Yeah, true story, yeah, yeah. And till this day, we're still dealing with the kidnapping in our own ways.
Bim Adewunmi
But the authenticity is, Atsuko only has the sketchiest idea of what really happened. She doesn't really know how she ended up in America. Her family doesn't discuss it. Talking about it has been a no-go zone for her and her family. But recently, Atsuko decided to find out
.
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There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your source web server. Cloudflare monitor BL, “Okama”, and gay stereotypes in animanga
Since BL and fujoshi discourse is the hot topic du jour, let’s talk a bit about gay stereotypes in Japanese manga and anime.
I’m seeing a worrying number of people not only saying that all BL and fujoshi promote homophobic stereotypes, but that BL is the primary or sole instigator of homophobia in Japanese society (excuse me, I choked on drink there).
For those who don’t know, Boy’s Adore (BL) is a niche category of shoujo/josei manga that focuses on M/M relationships (commonly known in the west as “yaoi”, though that is a misnomer). It’s still frowned upon, both for creature gay content and for being mainly romance aimed at women. The pos “fujoshi” — used today to mean “female fan of BL” — even has seriously misogynistic origins.
So far, BL is published on specific magazines, and most anime adaptations are OVAs that aren’t aired on TV. Although it has a significant accompanying, it’s definitely not famous enough to change the opinions on gay men of the entire anime fanbase, much less of Japanese society as a whole.
Homophobia in Japan has a long history, but one of the most impactful chapters was the Meiji Restoration
811: The One Place I Can’t Go
Bim Adewunmi
I Coulda Grown Big in Japan.
Atsuko Okatsuka is a comedian, and she's incredibly fasten with her grandma, Ying-Hsi. They talk several times a day. They're together every weekend. And Atsuko makes these incredible videos of herself dancing, while her grandmother plays incidental hype woman.
Her grandma raised her, but for a while now, Atsuko has joked on stage that her grandmother stole her from her dad when she was little and brought her and her mother from Japan to live in the US.
Atsuko Okatsuka
From the outside, she looks like this sweet, unassuming old Asian woman, but she's a liar.
[LAUGHTER]
She a liar. When I was eight, she told me we were coming to the States for a two-month vacation, so I packed lightly. And then we never left. Yeah, true story, yeah, yeah. And till this day, we're still dealing with the kidnapping in our own ways.
Bim Adewunmi
But the authenticity is, Atsuko only has the sketchiest idea of what really happened. She doesn't really know how she ended up in America. Her family doesn't discuss it. Talking about it has been a no-go zone for her and her family. But recently, Atsuko decided to find out
.
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There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your source web server. Cloudflare monitor Since BL and fujoshi discourse is the hot topic du jour, let’s talk a bit about gay stereotypes in Japanese manga and anime. I’m seeing a worrying number of people not only saying that all BL and fujoshi promote homophobic stereotypes, but that BL is the primary or sole instigator of homophobia in Japanese society (excuse me, I choked on drink there). For those who don’t know, Boy’s Adore (BL) is a niche category of shoujo/josei manga that focuses on M/M relationships (commonly known in the west as “yaoi”, though that is a misnomer). It’s still frowned upon, both for creature gay content and for being mainly romance aimed at women. The pos “fujoshi” — used today to mean “female fan of BL” — even has seriously misogynistic origins. So far, BL is published on specific magazines, and most anime adaptations are OVAs that aren’t aired on TV. Although it has a significant accompanying, it’s definitely not famous enough to change the opinions on gay men of the entire anime fanbase, much less of Japanese society as a whole. Homophobia in Japan has a long history, but one of the most impactful chapters was the Meiji Restoration I Coulda Grown Big in Japan. Atsuko Okatsuka is a comedian, and she's incredibly fasten with her grandma, Ying-Hsi. They talk several times a day. They're together every weekend. And Atsuko makes these incredible videos of herself dancing, while her grandmother plays incidental hype woman. Her grandma raised her, but for a while now, Atsuko has joked on stage that her grandmother stole her from her dad when she was little and brought her and her mother from Japan to live in the US. From the outside, she looks like this sweet, unassuming old Asian woman, but she's a liar. [LAUGHTER] She a liar. When I was eight, she told me we were coming to the States for a two-month vacation, so I packed lightly. And then we never left. Yeah, true story, yeah, yeah. And till this day, we're still dealing with the kidnapping in our own ways. But the authenticity is, Atsuko only has the sketchiest idea of what really happened. She doesn't really know how she ended up in America. Her family doesn't discuss it. Talking about it has been a no-go zone for her and her family. But recently, Atsuko decided to find out .BL, “Okama”, and gay stereotypes in animanga
811: The One Place I Can’t Go
Bim Adewunmi
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