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Promotional Pictures for Ôoku Drama and Movie (2012)
Finally! I’ve been waiting and waiting for some teaser photos from the new Ôoku TV series (Ôoku Tanjô, Oct. 2012) and film (Ôoku Eien, Dec. 2012), and here they are! TBS Drama. Ôoku: Tanjô...
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Documenting Halloween 2012: An Imported Holiday (1)
Halloween seems to be the new imported-holiday darling of the ’10s. As I wrote last year, businesses’ creating and selling Halloween-themed goods and services has exploded in the last 5 years, and yet,...
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Halloween Taste-Testing: Mister Donut and Doughnut Plant
So far, all my Halloween stuff has been food this year. I’m planning a non-food post exclusive to The Lobster Dance soon, and I’d like to add your photos to it! If you have any interesting...
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Halloween in Japan: Decorations
What have we learned about Halloween in Japan this year? Kanazawa Forus Although Halloween seems to be mainly marketed through food in the broader consumer world, Halloween decorations in retailers and...
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Ôoku: Tanjo, Episode 3
Ooku, Vol. 2, p. 205 Ooku, Ep. 3. Ain’t no party like an ooku drag party… Image via TBS Hello to my new readers from d-addicts, where my blog was linked on the Ôoku drama thread. I know I’m rather...
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Petitioning Cibu International / Ratner Companies: Stop using offensive and...
Image via Are Women Human, via EthnoConnect. Quote: Helen Kim, “Asianized Asians.” Last month, the excellent blog Are Women Human? called out the beauty company Cibu International over their...
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Cibu Petition Featured on B*tch Media
An update on the petition for Cibu to stop using Orientalist names for their products from (the one and only) Bitch Media: Image via Bitch Magazine. Wash that Racism Out of Your Hair! After Protest,...
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I Did Not Order My Beer with a Side of Sexism
Reblogged from I’ll Make It Myself: I Did Not Order My Beer with a Side of Sexism“ Source: coffeefirstalways While I’ve regrettably come to expect national-brand beers to perpetuate the stereotype of...
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“A Mere Male”: Mansplaining Women’s Art
This piece also appeared in Feministe on 1 April 2013. One of the most striking scenes in the 2012 miniseries version of Ford Maddox Ford’s Parade’s End is one in which suffragette Valentine Wannop...
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Soap-Bubble “Empowerment”: Dove’s Missed Chance
Dove’s “Real Beauty” Campaign‘s latest attempt to engage consumers has gone viral, and you’ve likely seen some of the criticisms about it. The video “Real Beauty Sketches” depicts a group of women...
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Making No Sense of Medieval Avatars: When Women Were Passive and Men Were...
“Sexual Equality” Causes Birth Dearth, Makes Unicorns Sad “To My Only Desire.” The Lady and the Unicorn. Image copyright Musée national du Moyen Âge. I’m sure no one is surprised that C.B. Liddell, the...
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Japan Gender Reader, June 2013
My friend Toranosuke over at the Japanese-art blog A Man With Tea has been looking for a good Japan-and-gender blog, something like a Japan-focused version of the excellent The Grand Narrative, which...
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The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle
Seattle is home to all sorts of interesting “niche” museums, and while I haven’t had a chance to see them all yet, I wanted to share with you my photos of the permanent exhibitions of the The Wing Luke...
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Geek Gender Reader: August 2013
Aaand we’re a day or two late. ぎりぎりセーフ。。。じゃない。 I collected a lot of articles on geeks and gender this summer and wanted to share them here on the blog. Japan Gender Reader will be back soon! Image via...
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Links: “Half”/ハーフ: Mixed-Race in Japan
I got a great comment from Maya on “Video: ‘White Japanese People – 白人系日本人’” about how mixed-race people living in Japan are also often treated as “foreigners,” and I wanted to share some recent links...
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"Wibbly-Wobbly Sexy-Wexy": Queer Comic Anthologies
Reblogged from Comparative Geeks: Guest post by Leah of The Lobster Dance, a blog about Japan, gender, media, and culture (with a heavy dose of manga and geekery). People assume that time is a strict...
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Halloween Gender Reader, October 2013
Halloween! Let’s celebrate my favorite holiday with a (mostly positive) gender reader! Source: Wikipedia. Media Analysis Writing about horror films and gender. Andi Zeilser. “The Feminist Power of...
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Geek Girl Recaps #2: A Geekdom Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
The spiritual companion of the Geek Girl Con panel “Changing Culture in Mainstream and Alternative Spaces” was a discussion of the problem of bullying in the cosplay community and possible solutions....
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Color by... Gender?
Reblogged from Inequality by (Interior) Design:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EDiwIMMbc&w=500&h=312] By Tristan Bridges and Peter Rydzewski* Colors are one way that the gender of...
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Cute Break: Wakutama-kun, the Onsen Egg
Pre-holiday rush and year-end sexism burnout got you down? Let’s bring in some warm fuzzy feelings with an adorable mascot. We’ve got to take a cute break before continuing on our fun-ruining rampage...
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