"Rethinking Yaoi on the Regional and Global Scale"

Excited to release my essay "Rethinking Yaoi on the Regional and Global Scale" in the journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific!

Also, someone on their blog graciously translated the essay into Chinese!

Erotic Detours (or Destinations!)

 
 

As I work on my fantasy novel, I keep running into a conundrum...

(Anti)Homophobia, Capitalism and Yaoi “Politics”

Click for my post at Yaoi Research.  (Web Archive link)

Yaoi-Con 2011 - Pics!!!

So, Yaoi-Con was fun~

Michael and I aren't big spenders, which is hard to do at the Con with all the great art, stories and merchandise overflowing the booths. We just followed a few threads.  For him, he bought a Naruto & Sasuke poster (with them kissing, of course).  We both invested in the first couple chapters of Teahouse, one the best American yaoi comics going on right now.  I got a novel called Kaminishi after attending the author's panel and we picked up Blind Eye Books' newest release Smoketown, both of which are pretty good so far.

Yaoi-Con 2011 - Cosplay

For Yaoi-Con this year, I will cosplay as Avan Hardins from Valkyria Chronicles II.

I've looked online and I can't find a costume for him.  So even though I've never done this before (that is, I've never cosplayed before) and there's less than two months until the Con...

I am totally gonna create his costume myself!

I will update this post with pics as I go along...

Teaching Yaoi to Undergrads

Today I lectured undergrads about yaoi.  My friend's course is a comparative literature course on Japanese manga, and this week was "boys' love" week.  I had read all the students' response papers to a 2002 BL manga titled Only the Ring Finger Knows; it was fascinating to read all the different perspectives from students with different views about homosexuality.  I framed my words around theirs.