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All the latest news about Black Lives Matter from the BBC

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Some videos are interesting. Discrimination to Black people is happening even in Japan.

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This article let me know that LGBTQ+ person may be buried because of the different behaviors from other people. In this article, Blair, trans women had been buried in school. Her mother did not accept her coming out at first. Before her first coming out, Blair deceived herself and annoyed a lot. At the moment one classmate told her beautiful, she was triggered and she was encouraged. This story tells that so many transgender people may be annoying about themselves, and discouraged because they may felt their sex and body don’t accord. We may have such person around us, even we don’t notice that. Especially if I have in my students, I must accept and respect them.

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by blair perry

I'm Blair Perry and I am from Boulder, Colorado.

When I was five, my sister dressed me up in a bunch of princess clothes and she put this hair on me that - it wasn't even real hair, but it was kind of princess-like. She kind of did it to embarrass, like, to embarrass me, but I - I was living. And I don't remember what color the princess dress was, but I felt cute. I would strut around the hallway, like back and forth because we had this long hallway in between rooms - in between our rooms, and I just had a great old time just being a cute little princess.

So years later, my family and I moved to a town outside of Houston. I was about 10 years old at the time. I was immediately kind of clocked as, like, a gay kid, even though I didn't know what that meant at the time. I was immediately, like, called names. People always kept asking me if I was into boys even though I didn't actually, like, have those kind of feelings yet. I was basically treated as, like, an outsider or like an "other" all the way throughout middle school and high school.

When I was 15, I shaved my legs for the first time. I wanted to see what it felt like. Also. I just really hated having hairy legs. My mom noticed and when I got home that day, she actually cornered me in my bedroom and asked me, like, very angrily, like, why did I do that? And I kind of was dodging around, dodging around why I was doing that. I kind of just told her I wanted to know what it felt like.

A month later, after that, having not learned my lesson from that, it was one of our dress-up days during homecoming. Because in the south, every week, every day of the week of homecoming, there's a different dress-up day with a different theme. This day, the theme was "character day" which is really subjective. I used that opportunity to just have one of my friends put me up in a ton of makeup.

I came into the building the, like, first, like, hour before school started and I told one of my friends who was hanging out there, "Hey, want to just completely, like, make me over? Just, like, just, like, do whatever you want with it. Just, like, give me all - give me all of the - give me all of the face." She just went to town on my face, just, like, all of the contour, all of the eye shadow, all of - I even had lashes on. I was just so enthralled when she, like, pulled the mirror in front of my face to show me her handy work. I looked - I looked stunning.

I spent the whole day throughout class, like, walking in between classes and forth just in full face throughout the whole day. Yes, I definitely got a lot more stares than I usually did and I probably did get a lot more name-calling than I did, but I had - at that point, I had learned to just kind of like accept it like background noise, which it was.

By my history class, which was at the end of the day, I had just accumulated just a number of different reactions to my totally changed appearance for that day. I had just sat down at my desk and, you know, right next to me is one of my acquaintances. We talk a lot during the class.

She asked me, "Wow. Like, who did your makeup?" And I told her it was one of my close friends that she was also friends with.

And she said, "Wow. Wow, you look really confident. That's, like, a new look for you. I love it."

I was like, "Yeah, thanks." I liked that she said that I was confident because I hadn't really been told that before.

Weeks later, I was at lunch with my boyfriend at the time. He had said something a little insulting to me as a way to try to make me a little smaller because he needed to make himself feel better because he had a lot going on. Because I eventually had found a bit of confidence in myself because of my previous incident, I had to tell him when he said something demeaning to me I had to say, like, "Listen, dude, I'm gorgeous. Lighten up."

He was really taken aback by that. He was like, "Oh. Sorry, I didn't know that he felt that I was demeaning you."

And I said, "Yeah, I kind of did feel that way. You should probably be treating me a little better because, you know, I deserve that."

And he was like, "Oh, all right. I'm sorry about that. I'll try to be better." And he was for a little bit but old habits do die hard and I had to cut him off.

I guess, so that new confidence that I found myself, like, so many years ago, for starters that led me to actually transition and that helped me realize that, like, hey, being that pretty is not just something I want to be temporary. In fact, I'd like it to actually be like a permanent thing for myself.

Eventually I did have the confidence to come out to my mother and tell her, like, everything. She was a little unsure at first. She was like, "Are you sure this is what you want?"

I was like, "Yes, this is completely where I wanna be heading. In fact, I'm already going there, whether you want me to or not." She accepted me for who I was and has been one of my fiercest allies ever since.

Even going further than that, my newfound confidence is helped me, you know, broaden, expand my horizons on where I've been able to go after my life in Texas. I've learned now to surround myself only with people who are going to be positive influences for myself so that I can maintain my personal confidence and not have to feel - not have to feel that I have to shrink myself down for people that are only just going to make things harder for me.

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"Listen, Dude. I'm Gorgeous." Transwoman Finds Confidence During Dress-Up Day In High School.

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by blair perry I'm Blair Perry and I am from Boulder, Colorado. When I was five, my sister dressed me up in a bunch of princess clothes and she put this hair on me that - it wasn't even real hair, but it was kind of princess-like.

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Today, I have learned some vocabulary of LGBTQ+. I have been really interested in some issues. I sometimes have heard the word ‘third gender’ before but I didn’t know of them well. In this lesson, I watched movies and knew a little of them. They seemed completely same as me and I thought it should be natural to respect their feelings.

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In this article, I saw some example of what I learned in today’s lesson
wakashu/若衆

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An original perspective picture of the Great Gateway and Nakano-cho in the Shin Yoshiwara, (1730s-1740s), by Okumura Masanobu. The work is part of "A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints," at the Japan Society. Credit... Royal Ontario Museum; Photo: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

A figure in a translucent kimono coyly holds a fan. Another arranges an iris in a vase. Are they men or women?

As a mind-bending exhibition that opened Friday at the Japan Society illustrates, they are what scholars call a third gender - adolescent males seen as the height of beauty in early modern Japan who were sexually available to both men and women. Known as wakashu, they are one of several examples in the show that reveal how elastic the ideas of gender were before Japan adopted Western sexual mores in the late 1800s.

The show, "A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints," arrives at a time of ferment about gender roles in the United States and abroad. Bathroom rights for transgender people have become a cultural flash point. The notion of "gender fluidity" - that it's not necessary to identify as either male or female, that gender can be expressed as a continuum - is roiling traditional definitions.

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Detail of "Two Couples in a Brothel" (1769-70), by Suzuki Harunobu. Credit... Royal Ontario Museum; Photo: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

"This brings us back to history to think about the present and the future," said Asato Ikeda, an assistant professor of art history at Fordham University and the guest curator of the exhibition, which covers the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

She said that like other societies in the past and present - the hijra in India; the "two-spirit people" in some American indigenous cultures - the diversity in gender definitions and sexual practices in Edo Japan challenges modern notions that male and female are clear either-or identities.

The art on display shows how many permutations were acceptable in Edo society: men or women in liaisons with the adolescent wakashu; female geisha dressing like wakashu and engaging in rough sex; male prostitutes cross-dressing as women; men impersonating women on the Kabuki stage, a tradition that lasts to this day; and even a male Kabuki actor impersonating a woman who pretends at one point to be a man.

That suggests, Professor Ikeda said, that some blurring of gender identity was deliberate, playful and often arousing, since the prints were relatively inexpensive and widely circulated, some as erotica.

The wakashu are a case in point. The term describes the time a male reaches puberty and his head is partly shaved, with a triangle-shaped cut above the forelocks that is a telltale way to identify wakashu. During this stage of life only, before full-fledged adulthood, it was socially permissible to have sex with either men or women.

In the prints, the wakashu are presented as beautiful and desirable, sometimes practicing what were seen at the time as feminine arts like flower-arranging or playing the samisen. Like unmarried women, wakashu who belonged to the samurai class could wear the long-sleeved kimono known as furisode. In several prints, you have to look closely to find the shaved triangle in the hair, or spot a sword tucked in a samurai wakashu's sash (or, in the erotic woodblocks, to see the genitals on display), to differentiate between the wakashu and the women pictured near them.

In some cases, there are sly literary allusions that deliberately transpose gender. These prints depict episodes from classical literature, or Buddhist and Confucian traditions, but flip the genders of the main characters, or recast the men as wakashu.

The art in the exhibition ranges from lively snapshots of daily life to uninhibited portrayals of desire. A screen shows several wakashu surrounding a Buddhist monk, teasingly holding down his hands, plying him with alcohol and tickling his feet, suggesting foreplay before male-male sex. A young woman passes a love note to her wakashu lover behind the back of an older artist who is signing his name to a painting. A wakashu dreams of sex with a famous prostitute, while another woman tenderly covers him with a jacket.

Several prints reflect Edo society's strict hierarchy of class and age, one reason the curators caution it is misleading to compare gender norms directly to the present day. The Edo period was one of relative peace in Japan, following many years of war between competing samurai. It was also marked by nearly complete isolation from the West. That is one reason it may have offered space for sexual experimentation, but only within certain bounds.

Any hint of adult male-male sex was confined to outcast groups such as Kabuki actors, said Michael Chagnon, the curator of exhibit interpretation at the Japan Society, although homosexuality was practiced among samurai for centuries and commercialized during the Edo period. Men are usually in charge, both in pursuit of sexual partners and in sexual positions, except for experienced women who pursue younger wakashu. There is virtually no depiction of lesbianism, since women were not granted the sexual freedoms men were. The only print showing two naked women is ambiguous, with art historians uncertain whether it suggests mutual desire. Older men have sex with younger wakashu.

The exhibition raises and confronts questions of pederasty or exploitation, given that wakashu were sexually available after puberty, younger than would now be considered the age of consent. The curators consulted social workers and lawyers during the original exhibit, held at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, to make sure the work was not considered child pornography.

Mr. Chagnon said marriages and sexual liaisons took place at an earlier age than the present day, partly because people died so much younger, often by their late 30s. The notion of age of consent did not exist in Edo Japan, he said, and was imported later.

The Edo period ended after Japan was humiliated by demands from a militarily superior West - the black ships of Commodore Perry wrested concessions from a country that had once confined Western traders to offshore islands. And it was then in the late 1860s, as Japan rushed to adopt Western technology and forms of government, that it also imported more rigid Western notions of gender and permissible sexual expression. The tradition of wakashu ended. Homosexuality was outlawed for a time.

Same-sex marriage is not legal in Japan today, although it was debated in the legislature in 2015 and some cities have allowed partnership certificates for same-sex couples. A gay subculture flourishes, with many artists playfully shifting and layering identities, mainly through the internet. But gay men are generally expected to marry women and produce children, fulfilling social expectations while conducting their sexual lives discreetly.

In an uncanny echo of the past, some Japanese men today, known as " genderless danshi," are once again blurring lines, dressing androgynously, using makeup or wearing clothes typically seen as feminine.

"Even though we have this rich tradition of gender, prints like these are not found in our textbooks," said Professor Ikeda, who grew up in Japan. "We don't do these kinds of exhibitions in Japan."

It is one of the many reflections on contemporary society that this provocative exhibition raises. Walking through it is a reckoning with categories, definitions and how they resonate in societies still uncertain about whether lines between genders should be bent or blurred.

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When Japan Had a Third Gender (Published 2017)

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Sugiyama Fumino
•Transgender
•Had belonged national
Women fencing team of Japan
• have had transition

I couldn’t find Any site in English . sorry.

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杉山文野 | プロフィール

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株式会社ニューキャンバスの代表杉山文野のプロフィール・経歴のご紹介です。

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Spokane Tribe of Indians - Improving the lives of our Members

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Ibaraki American Culture Workshop -- Home Page

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Ibaraki American Culture Workshop -- Home Page

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Ibaraki American Culture Workshop Zoom Room Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/j/94084320683 Line Group Link: http://line.me/ti/g/Kvgm8GT4jn

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I’m Yohei. I major in English Education.
They are my favorite group!
Plz try it😉