Kinoko is the author of I Have Two Partners: Living the Polyamorous Life, a ground-breaking book in Japanese about polyamory, as well as the organizer of Poly Lounge, a series of events for polyamorous and questioning people and allies.
I started a podcast series with my ESL student, Kinoko, where we share with you video recordings of our lessons.
Kinoko's ESL Lesson 004 - The pressure to fit in and finding energy in our own way
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I'm doing a little queer-themed pop-up café/bar in Ueno on Sunday October 19 from 3PM through 10PM. The venue is Deaf Bar SELF (3rd floor, 7-10-5 Ueno, Tokyo).
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The Danchi Queer - a podcast where queer essayist Masaki Seto from Japan talks about his life in Japan.
My first episode is about Sanseito and how Japan has always been xenophobic anyway.
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/ someone using double quotation marks for gender pronouns and another person getting offended because they interpreted it as an emphasis (like in Japanese) instead of a sarcastic quote-like expression (like in English). This one was pretty difficult to handle, too.
/ But I didn't know how to explain that without making it sound like I was gaslighting them to defend the anti-Semites. So I ended up saying, after explaining what I thought was the case, "but I don't know, maybe they said Jews." A similar thing happened a couple weeks ago with /
/ a conversation in Japanese among Japanese exchange students that they had overheard. As someone who'd grown up mostly in Japan, I knew people wouldn't say ジュウ to refer to Jewish people (they most likely say ユダヤ人) and my guess was they probably said 10 (じゅう) instead. /
It always feels awkward when someone believes they have been wronged but in fact they have only misunderstood the grammar or expression because it's their second language. When I was in college, a friend of mine took issue with what they perceived to be a reference to "Jews" in /
Why would I “come out” of the closet that I never went into?
Bisexual people are bisexual no matter who we date, fuck, or marry.
↑今したこれらのリプですが、差別的な言辞を引用するのにあたり、トリガーウォーニングを書くべきでした。失礼しました。
広義の「トランスジェンダー」に含めて語られることはあると思いますし、それに私は特に反対しません（し、「絶対にトランスジェンダーには含まれない」などとも思いません）が、少なくとも「トランス女性」と呼ばれる人々の中にオートガイネフィリアの「男性」が含まれることはないのではないかと。一方で、オートガイネフィリアの「女性」については、シス女性にもトランス女性にもいると思っています。
たまたま見かけたので応答します。引用元を見ていただければわかりますが、相手の方はオートガイネフィリアを「ただ女性の格好して女として見られると興奮するっていうマゾヒズムの持ち主」と言っており、文脈的に「ただ女性の格好して」という部分は「アイデンティティは女性ではないが」とか「女性として生活してはいないが」という意味だと私は解釈しました。ですので私はこれをオートガイネフィリアの「男性」の話だと解釈し、「オートガイネフィリアの男性がトランス女性に含まれるわけ」ない、と言ったのです。
Friend: Someone told me Discord is like Slack but for younger people.
Me: That's micro-aggression.
A quick overview of xenophobia in post-WWII Japan
There’s a possibility of Takaichi attempting to form a coalition government with Sanseito, which would be horrible. Ishiba wouldn’t. Compared to everyone else who’s been the leader of LDP like Abe, Ishiba probably is the most moderate, well-balanced. That’s why we hope to see him keep his job longer.
Is Sanseito's xenophobia anything new? - a quick overview of xenophobia in post-war Japan
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The vlogging footage is from when I took a long walk in residential Saitama on a hot summer day.
[New vlog] The election results (san'insen) and the rise of the far-right, fascist Sanseito are depressing, but should we be surprised?
Is Sanseito's xenophobia anything new? - a quick overview of xenophobia in post-war Japan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkB...
Thank you!
A mirror selfie of an adult man in perhaps a public restroom. A little dark overlay with yellow text on top that says, "Focus on creating what you love creating.／自分が作っていて楽しいと思うものを作ることに集中しよう"
A new video on how we should spend less time trying to be present everywhere and thus spreading ourselves too thin, and instead put in more time into crafting things that we love creating.
YouTube (with English subtitles)
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Interview!!
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Our upcoming event is about nonbinary identities!
With Prof. Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social, we will talk about what it means to be nonbinary in Japan and how terms like X-gender have evolved.
progreztribe20250615.peatix.com
See our About page for more info.
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Check out our FAQ page here.
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A screenshot of some text and a logo. The logo says "ProgrezTribe." Text in English says "Take your time forming a sentences. It's okay to stop mid-sentence. Ask for clarification if you need it. Don't worry about understanding 100%. Bad pronunciation? That's okay. In ProgrezTribe, you don't practice Japanese—you use it. Search for ProgrezTribe to find our newsletter for more information." The Japanese text is the translation.
#ProgrezTribe is a politically progressive Discord server where social issues are discussed in simple language, in either Japanese or English. If you're learning Japanese, join our conversations about queer/feminist politics etc. in simple Japanese! discord.gg/jq7Tt8bsSR
And her message to young women and queers.
Watch in full at youtube.com/watch?v=qneO...
This is where she responds to TERF talking points.
A warm-toned photo of my mom and me sitting next to each other at a table in a cafe. Hand-written text (digital) overlays on mom (feminist mother) and me (queer child).
Is my mom a TERF? - An interview with a Japanese feminist mother on sexism
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I went to interview my mother in Gunma, Japan to discuss her life as a woman in Japan. We talked about her past, feminism, intersectionality, transphobia, etc.
