The bar prohibits single men from entering, (although any men accompanied by women are apparently welcome). This first “love and sex bar dedicated to women” opened in July in 2012, and aims to have customers “experience a pleasant place in which they can openly discuss masturbation.” Frequently visited by women in the sex and porn industries, Love Joule is seen as a safe space in which women can drink and openly discuss sex and masturbation without judgement – or unwanted male company. Behind the counter are not rows of liquor bottles, but rather a proud and colourful display of vibrators. The Old, The New, The Frank, The Untrue: Changing Faces of Japan’s Sex Industry (Otaku Lounge)Ī snapshot of trends in Japan’s sex industry from the 1990s to today.įemale masturbation, usually something of a taboo topic, is in fact the main topic at Love Joule, a bar in Tokyo’s trendy and bustling Shibuya district. Some things that have helped me do that are Black magical girls that have become part of the magical girl genre. Despite not identifying as a Black woman, I still had a femme side that I wanted to embrace. Earlier this year, I realized I had to acknowledge and work through my femmephobia in order to come to terms with my gender identity.Īs it turns out, my femmephobia was the result of my inability to relate to the gender binary and narrow representations of Black womanhood. After watching Utena, I started to consider feminine magical girls like Sailor Moon “too girly” and their cute attacks “too immature”.
LOVING MAGICAL GIRLS AS A BLACK NON-BINARY PERSON (Wear Your Voice)Ī wonderful piece on how magical girls can speak to people of all genders, and how different series hit different points well.Īt the same time, Revolutionary Girl Utena also brought my femmephobia to light. We got drunk and disappointed by the myriad ways the new adaptation wasted its potential. Chatty AF 23: Netflix Death Note Drinkalong
Returning contributor Alex Henderson revisits ToraDora and how it complicates and deepens the expected one-note high school rom-com tropes. Adding Salt to Sweet Vanilla: The complex women of ToraDora! New contributor Shelby Strong explores the importance of telling different women’s stories and her connection with a character chastised for not being traditionally feminine. As Told by Saena: Skip Beat! and the infinite variety of women’s stories Women in animation, voice actor activists, and Japan’s sex industry.