drupagliassotti @ March 25, 2010 # One Comment
The International Workshop on BL (Boys Love) Studies Glocal Polemics of ‘BL’ (Boys Love): Production, Circulation, and Censorship (download pdf for this call) Place: Oita University (Japan, Oita city near Fukuoka) Date: 22nd & 23rd January 2011 The genre of male homosexual narratives written by and for women, commonly called ‘BL’ (Boys’ Love), has recently [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Check out this steampunk business scheme over at the Something Positive comic strip. Oh, that’s such a great story idea … and yes, just in case you were wondering, one Victorian-era treatment for “female hysteria,” originally thought to be caused by that annoying habit of a woman’s uterus to wander around her body, was the [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 16, 2010 # 2 Comments
Many types of speech may be considered offensive and unpleasant. I’ve addressed two such types recently — virtual child pornography and VictOrientalism — reluctantly defending the first while critiquing the other. Does that seem counterintuitive? While I believe it’s important to object — preferably calmly and rationally — to those types of speech that one [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Jha’s Silver Goggles/ SteamPunk Magazine article “Countering Victorientalism” (SPM version here), and a related post by Ay-Leen, “The Semantics of Words & the Antics of Fashion: Addressing ‘Victorientalism‘” at Beyond Victoriana, have been the subject of some very interesting and controversial discussion in comments. I’ve already recommended Jha’s articles on this blog with regard to [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 3, 2010 # One Comment
When a colleague told me our building was on fire this afternoon, I grabbed my purse, laptop, library book, and the page proofs for Boys’ Love Manga, so that I wouldn’t lose any of my penciled-in edits if the building burned down! Turned out it was a burning lightbulb’s smoke being sucked into the ventilation [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’ve just registered and booked my room for Yaoi-Con 2010 — the 10th anniversary event! It’ll be at the Hyatt Regency this year, and the guest of honor is going to be Ayano Yamane of the Finder and Crimson Spell series. (One of my favorite yaoi pins is one that says “Still Looking for Finder [...]