Posted in Gender, Race, tagged comic, facebook, Gender, gender expression, japan, Masuzoe, onsen, Princess Princess, public baths, race, Rie Alkemade, sento, sex strike, skin whitening, strangelykatie, TERF, trans*, transgender, transphobic, women in yakuza, yakuza on 2014/02/19|
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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 discussion of giri-choco!

Chanel’s Le Blanc (ルブラン) skin-whitening cream. Image via Chanel Japan.
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