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I also presented at the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Pop Cultures Symposium organized by @aurelievpetit.bsky.social and @meganrose.bsky.social! I spoke about placemaking, race, and gender in the context of #cosplay. Met lots of scholars doing incredible work 🙏🏽
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to be delivering a keynote for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives in Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025. Please register if you haven’t already! Can’t wait to think with everyone on digital mediations of Afro-Japanese encounters and #otakuhotgirlstudies. ✨
Introducing another one of our amazing keynotes: @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social who will present on "Mediating Afro-Japanese Encounters from Yasuke to Megan Thee Stallion" ⚔️💿✨ Kimberly is an Assistant Professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University! Tickets 🎫 below!!
May 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Hybrid Lecture
@meganrose.bsky.social
"Hyperfeminine Harajuku: Exploring Queer KAWAII Practices in a Tokyo Subcultural District"
Kanagawa U, Minatomirai Campus, M8015
Wed 21 May 3:30–5pm

In-person preregistration forms.gle/7FF8yLSmDkRF...

Zoom (no prereg)
Meeting ID: 985 5806 9693 Passcode: KUMMC
May 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Excited to be giving a public lecture at Kanagawa University, 21st of May about my research for my book on Harajuku (currently in the works)💫💫

“Hyperfeminine Harajuku:
Exploring Queer KAWAII Practices in a Tokyo Subcultural District”

It’s both online and in person- details on the flyer 🌈💕
May 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Feeling super grateful and thankful to all those coming together out of support for the women and LGBT people who form an integral part of Japanese popular culture. This solidarity means everything, thank you! Over 200 registrants so far. Check out this free online event below ⬇️💕
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Another year, another great conference on Queer and Feminist povs in Japanese popular culture!
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I’m very excited to be giving a keynote to promote #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social at this online symposium organized by @meganrose.bsky.social &
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️‍🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️‍⚧️
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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ALL of these panels and panelists look AMAZING for this May! I'm especially interested in "Early-2000s Yaoi Aesthetics as Tools for Cultural Disruption" and "Australia’s Regulation on Explicit and Erotic Material"

PLEASE check this event out, it may even inspire you to contribute in the future! ⭐🤩
April 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Check out this amazing (free) online symposium "Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025" May 19 to 22!
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This was SUCH a lovely event last year, so I highly recommend checking it out. The program for this year's iteration is looking 🔥🔥🔥
Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!
April 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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And YES, you are reading well: keynotes from Dr. Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Dr. Kimberly Hassel and Dr. Michelle Ho!!! Ok, star-studded event!!
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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🌎🌍🌏 We tried our best to accommodate multiple time zones!! Come come come 🫶👐 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I’m SO excited for all of our panels and participants!! 😍 Here are abstracts from the schedule below (purple is Japan times and blue is EST) 👇 papers on otome games, Black women and anime, queer subtext in Gundam, Yuri manga, etc. Papers on Persona 5, Dororo, Ghost Fighter!!! ✊
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!
April 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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You can now watch the launch of the report 'Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection by Dr Megan Rose @meganrose.bsky.social and Prof Deborah Lupton @dalupton.bsky.social (UNSW ADM+S) on YouTube.

👉Watch now: bit.ly/3Yd2X4i

#neurodiversity #AutismSupport #autismresearch
Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection
This seminar, coinciding with the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives, took place on 8 April 2025. It features Megan Catherine Rose and Deborah Lupton, on behalf of the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health and the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre. This research was conducted by the Vitalities Lab, UNSW, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (CE200100005), and funded partially or fully by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're the official channel for the wonderful community members of UNSW Sydney, a brilliantly located university between the coast and the city. UNSW Sydney is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities. We're a welcoming community, promoting lasting knowledge and creating an academic environment where outstanding students and scholars from around the world can be inspired to excel in their programs of study and research.
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April 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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【拡散希望】 
「トランスジェンダーへのバックラッシュに揺れるアメリカの情勢を学ぶ勉強会」

Tネットさんの新規イベント。
2024年5月11日(日)10:00~
オンライン。参加費無料(カンパチケット有)。日本語通訳つきます。

いまアメリカで最も忙しいトランスジェンダーのジャーナリストであるエリン・リードさんと、モンタナ州議会議員のゾーイー・ゼファーさんが登壇!
トランプ政権でLGBTの権利が後退している…? でも何が起きてるのかよく分からない…。そんな方は多いはずです。ぜひご参加ください。
tnet202505.peatix.com
トランスジェンダーへのバックラッシュに揺れるアメリカの情勢を学ぶ勉強会
2025年現在、トランプ大統領の再選により、アメリカではトランスジェンダーに対する大規模なバックラッシュが生じています。医療、教育、パスポートの性別記載、軍隊での雇用、さらにはSN...
tnet202505.peatix.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Pleased to announce that my report for the @leidenasiacentre.nl, on Japanese LGBTQ+ politics, has been published!

In this publication, I cover some of the latest developments concerning key policy issues, such as Japan's lack of marriage equality, and analyse factors influencing policymaking.
Publication - Contemporary LGBTQ+ Politics in Japan: Policy Issues, Discourses and Developments, and the role of Foreign Actors - Leiden Asia Centre
Japan has publicly committed to creating "a society where all people can exercise their abilities and find their lives worth living," and to combating "prejudice and discrimination based on sexual ori...
leidenasiacentre.nl
April 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of @dalupton.bsky.social and my report on Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection. It was really energizing and exciting to have such a great turn out and receive such great feedback!
www.admscentre.org.au/new-study-ex...
A new autistic-led project, Autistic Supports for Comfort, Care, and Connection, reveals the everyday and creative ways autistic adults use objects, services, and creatures to support their wellbeing.
A new autistic-led project, Autistic Supports for Comfort, Care, and Connection, reveals the everyday and creative ways autistic adults use objects, services, and creatures to support their wellbeing.
www.admscentre.org.au
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Report Launch: Autism supports for comfort, care and connection: sharing voices & experiences of autistic people, exploring how they use a rich mix of non-human supports to meet sensory & emotional needs to build meaningful relationships. Register here admscentre.org/event-autism...
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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いつも日本のエスニックマイノリティに寄り添ってくれている記者の國﨑さんにインタビューをしていただきました🙆‍♀️
前編では取材の中で知って感じたことや、作品制作の中で考えたことなどについて話してます!
ぜひ読んでください💪✨

「いないことにされてきた」者同士の感情が交差する。漫画「半分姉弟」が紡ぐ、「ハーフ」と呼ばれる人たちの物語

www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_... #
「いないことにされてきた」者同士の感情が交差する。漫画「半分姉弟」が紡ぐ、「ハーフ」と呼ばれる人たちの物語
「当事者性が薄いことほど、無責任で無神経な発言やコメントをしてしまった経験って実は多くの人にあるのではないでしょうか」(藤見よいこさん)。漫画「半分姉弟」は、それぞれに異なるルーツを持つハーフたちが主人公の群像劇だ。
www.huffingtonpost.jp
March 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Next month at Penn: A symposium on Premodern Trans Studies featuring
@transliterature.bsky.social, @ldevun.bsky.social, @badinfinity2.bsky.social, @hamlethologram.bsky.social, and Nat Rivkin ! Philly come thru!
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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www.eventbrite.com.au/e/autism-sup...

Interested in how autistic people find comfort, care and connection? Tune in to our free online seminar. All welcome. It will also be recorded to catch up later
Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection
Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives.
www.eventbrite.com.au
March 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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【My First Book is Being Published】
I’m happy to announce that at the end of this month, my first book, 非二元的な性を生きる:性的マイノリティのカテゴリー運用史Living Nonbinary: A History of the Categorization of Gender/Sexual Minorities, based on my doctoral dissertation, will be published by Akashi Shoten.
#transgender
単著『非二元的な性を生きる:性的マイノリティのカテゴリー運用史』(明石書店)の見本誌が届きました!
とても素敵な仕上がりです。3月末から書店に並び始めますので、よろしくお願いします。
March 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Join @dalupton.bsky.social and I for the launch of our report on non-human supports for autistic people on the 8th April. It’s online and free! Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/autism-sup...
Autism Supports for Comfort, Care and Connection
Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking report detailing research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives.
www.eventbrite.com.au
March 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM