drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Boys’ Love Manga co-editor Mark McHarry and contributor Hope Donovan gave a talk about the global yaoi phenomenon on KUCI’s Subversities radio show this last Monday, Oct. 18. Listen to an MP3 of the show on the Subversities blog! We would like to get together with other BL scholars, fans, and interested parties at Yaoi-Con [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2010 # 2 Comments
Day 3 (Friday): (New photos added here.) On the way out of the train station to the Edo-Tokyo Museum we spotted several sumo wrestlers in their topknots and bright yukata heading off to a sumo championship; they were the beginning-level wrestlers, as the higher-ranking wrestlers compete later in the day. I love the fact that [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
My co-editor Mark pointed out that in yesterday’s New York Times article “At Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures,” the book shown front and center is How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi. Nice catch, Mark! The article is about how library cuts may adversely affect the library’s manga collection. Too bad. I know [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
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 @ February 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The sentence came down last week in the closely watched (at least among comic/manga/anime fans and scholars) Christopher Handley case — six months in a federal prison for “possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children” and three years of supervised release during which time he is required to be under treatment [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 1, 2010 # 2 Comments
Last April I mentioned that I’d been introduced to the term “girlfag” by German scholar Uli Meyer, who ended up contributing a chapter to our Boys’ Love Manga academic collection. I wrote that the concept intrigued me and seemed potentially relevant to slash and BL fans. However, I’d had a hard time finding anything out [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Mark McLelland, an Australian professor whose name is well-known to boys’ love scholars and fans, has written a guest article about the new Australian internet-filter law at fandom researcher Henry Jenkin’s blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan. Check out McLelland’s article “Will New Law Block Many Slash, Anima, Manga Sites in Australia?” for a criticism of [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments
My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his [...]