Posted in Art, Gender, tagged art, body image, Korea, pop culture, Sailor Moon, sexual harassment, 夫婦別姓 on 2015/03/26| 1 Comment »
In this gender reader: 10 years and no movement on the separate surnames bill in Japan, the feminist power of Sailor Moon nostalgia, feminization and slurs in Korean queer terminology, wrist-grabbing isn’t sexy, Teddy girls, and more!
Asahi Shimbun. Ms. Kayama and her lawyer.
Posted in Geek Culture, Gender, tagged China, 腐女, fanart, fanfiction, fanworks, feminism, geek, geek culture, geek women, GitHub, harassment, nerd, open source, queer comics, Sailor Moon, STEM, tech, Vox Day on 2014/04/28| 3 Comments »
Interrupting our regularly scheduled Japan programming for the roughly biannual geek-centric gender reader. In this reader: women DO read comics; arresting fanfic writers in China; open-source feminism, and more.
Emerald City Comicon via Comic Book Resources
Posted in Gender, tagged culture, gender equality, Haruka Tenoh, history, japan, k-pop, leggings, nyonin kekkai, queer, Sailor Moon, sex ed, slut-shaming, women's rights, 女人結界 on 2013/07/20| 1 Comment »
In this Japan gender reader: Sailor Moon, sex and gender statistics, gender-equality Jizo, and more!
Concept art by Takeuchi Naoko. From Sailor Moon Wikia
Warning: some links may be NSFW.
Posted in Anime, Gender, Manga, tagged 3-11, anime, Black composer, classical music, feminism, Gender, gender gap, glass elevator, manga, Margaret Bonds, recession, Sailor Moon, stalking, Tohoku Earthquake, violence, wage gap on 2013/04/02| 3 Comments »
In this gender reader: women overlooked in recovery hiring, gendered violence in Fukushima, Koyuki Higashi’s big damn wedding, Flootchism, empowerment in Sailor Moon, and more.
Image credit: Haruko Kudo. Via Higashi Koyuki’s blog.
Posted in Anime, Culture, Gender, Manga, Media, tagged femininity, geeks, heterogamous, heteronormativity, homogamous, male privilege, marriage rights, Sailor Moon, yuri on 2012/02/17| 6 Comments »
Today I’d like to share with you all some blog posts and articles about gender and culture that I’ve found quite interesting. Topics covered: the terminology of describing pairing, male privilege in geekdom, a new and awesome interpretation of Sailor Moon‘s girl power, target audiences for yuri/BL, and sexual imagination as cultural.
Happy Valentine's Day (via BeruBara Kids)
I hope to make this round-up regular feature on this site–maybe monthly or bimonthly. Readers, what do you think?
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