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ineffable-opinions · 25 days ago

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Ah meant scholarly sources, I have read your posts (well written!) but not watched the videos (it is hard for me to focus on sound). :) thank you

Hey anon, based on your previous ask and this one, here are some scholarly sources that I have saved on the computer I am currently using. [I have more on another computer which I will be able to share those in a week or so. Done!]

How to access these sources?

[For context: 'Problematizing the Problem' section of my post Seme/uke - long response is being discussed and scholarly sources are for the questions (given below) I raised.]

Why would ‘het people’ or any people for that matter think in terms of male-female / masculine-feminine binaries? Do they think in those binaries only and not other binaries such as wen(文)-wu(武)? Why think in binaries and dichotomies at all? Don’t they not think in terms of multiplicity of genders/gender expressions such as various kinds of masculinities and femininities) based off on their local contexts?

Do queer people not make such/similar conflations? (Hint: they do.)

Is it a problem? While this seems to be the popular notion, plenty of scholars from across the globe has dismantled it.

I must admit that this was written following The Right Way to Be Gay - Who Can Tell? in a manner in which these questions would be treated as already answered. When read as a stand-alone, these questions would remain as food for thought at best.

seme uke - Japan

Cartographies of Desire: Male-male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 - Gregory M. Pflugfelder

Reimagining male-male sexuality: representations in Japanesemodern literature and gay manga by Nicholas James Hall

The Great Mirror of Male Love - Saikaku Ihara, Paul Gordon Schalow (translator)

Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan - Gary Leupp

In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Literature by Jim Reichert (199-208)

different takes on queerness from across the globe - LGBTQ+ and others:

Between Men, part of the ‘Key Population Series’, 2003 [link]

Hames, Raymond B.; Garfield, Zachary H.; and Garfield, Melissa J., “Is Male Androphilia a Context-Dependent Cross-Cultural Universal?” (2017). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 132.

Lambevski, S.A., 1999. Suck my nation - masculinity, ethnicity and the politics of (Homo) sex. Sexualities, 2(4), pp.397-419.

Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan’s Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World by Mark McLelland

Aneka, B. (2014). Jogappa: Gender, Identity and the Politics of Exclusion.

Stief, M. (2017). The sexual orientation and gender presentation of hijra, kothi, and panthi in Mumbai, India. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 73-85.

Gill, H. (2016). Kothi. The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies, 1-2.

Hossain, A., & Rahman, M. (2024). Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh. International Politics, 1-16.

different types of masculinities and femininities and queer people (conflations, adaptations, etc.):

Wijngaarden JW de L van. Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age. Anthem Press; 2021. [link] [link]

Polmuk, C. (2023). Provincialising Thai Boys Love: Queer Desire and the Aesthetics of Rural Cosmopolitanism. [link]

Vasudevan, A. (2024). From Deficient Masculinity to Relational Plenitude: Language and Ethics among Thirunangai s in Southern India. Men and Masculinities, 27(4), 392-409.

Bakshi, K. (2022). Writing the LGBTIHQ+ movement in Bangla: emergence of queer epistemologies in Kolkata in the early days of queer political mobilizations. South Asian History and Culture, 13(2), 231–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2022.2067636

Halkitis, Perry N., '(Hyper) Masculinity', Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation (New York, 2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190686604.003.0007

Kong, T.S.K. (2010). Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203849200

Wang, S. (2020). Chinese gay men pursuing online fame: erotic reputation and internet celebrity economies. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 548–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754633

in relation to yaoi and BL:

Nagaike, K. (2012). Perverse sexualities, perverse desires: representations of female fantasies and Yaoi manga as pornography directed at women. In Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica (pp. 103-134). Brill.

Yaoi Ronsō: Discussing Depictions of Male Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics, Gay Comics and Gay Pornography Wim Lunsing

Williams, A. (2015). Rethinking yaoi on the regional and global scale. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 37.

Pužar, A. (2023). " BL"(Boy Love)," GL"(Girl Love) and Female Communities of Practice and Affect in South Korea. Družboslovne razprave, 39(102), 63-84.

Mizoguchi, A. (2008). Reading and living Yaoi: Male-male fantasy narratives as women's sexual subculture in Japan. University of Rochester.

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020) The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan’s rotten women, Porn Studies,��7:3, 279-290, DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2020.1726204

In a recent post @dragonsandphoenix mentioned ‘Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China’ by Wu Cuncun. I haven't read it but, it sure looks interesting.

Update! Sorry, it is unsorted.

Kazumi Nagaike - Perverse Sexualities, Perversive Desires: Representations of Female Fantasies and "Yaoi Manga" as Pornography Directed at Women [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42771904]

Akiko Mizoguchi - Male-Male Romance by and for Women in Japan: A History and the Subgenres of "Yaoi" Fictions [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42771903]

Mark J. McLelland - Japan’s Original Gay Boom [https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/145]

McLelland, Mark J., Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and the Heterosexual Public Sphere in Japan 2005. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/156

McLelland, Mark J., Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan's Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World 2003. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/152

Himanshi Singh and Pradeep Kumar - Hijra : An Understanding https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.01.6

Bithika Mondal , Sudeshna Das , Deepshikha Ray , and Debanjan Banerjee - “Their Untold Stories…”: Lived Experiences of Being a Transgender (Hijra), A Qualitative Study From India [DOI: 10.1177/2631831820936924]

Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker - Boys Love Manga and Beyond

Thomas Baudinette - Japanese gay men’s attitudes towards ‘gay manga’ and the problem of genre - doi: 10.1386/eapc.3.1. 59_1

Jungmin Kwon – Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies

Narupon Duangwises and Peter A. Jackson - Effeminacy and Masculinity in Thai Gay Culture: Language, Contextuality and the Enactment of Gender Plurality - https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/wjss

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020): The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan’s rotten women, https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2020.1726204

Yanrui Xu & Ling Yang (2013) Forbidden love: incest, generational conflict, and the erotics of power in Chinese BL fiction - https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2013.771378

Divya Garg & Xiaofei Yang (14 Feb 2024): Beyond a queer utopia: interrogating misogyny in transnational boys love media https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2314186

Bret Hinsch – Passions of the Cut Sleeve

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020): Queer Affective Literacies: Examining “Rotten” Women’s Literacies in Japan - https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2020.1825506

Tomoko Aoyama - BL (Boys’ Love) Literacy: Subversion, Resuscitation, and Transformation of the (Father’s) Text - DOI: 10.1353/jwj.2013.0001

Jungmin Kwon - The past, present, and future of Boys Love (BL) cultures in East Asia [Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture - Edited by Seok-Kyeong Hong and Dal Yong Jin]

Sulaiman TK 2017 - Sexuality Landscape of Modern Kerala: A Discourse on Male Social Gathering among Malabar Muslim Men

Filippo Osella - Malabar Secrets: South Indian Muslim Men's (Homo)sociality across the Indian Ocean - http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/casr20

Caroline and Filippo Osella - Men and Masculinities in South India

Lothar Filip Rudorfer (2023) - Homosexuality and Bara Manga in Japan – Representation of the Psychological State of Mind of the Contemporary LGBT+ Plus Size Men in Japan

Chapter 5 (Exploring Yaoi Fans’ Online Practices in an Online Community by Simon Turner) and Chapter 6 (An Evaluation of Physicality in the Bara Manga of Bádi Magazine by Thomas Baudinette) of Manga Vision – edited by Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou and Cathy Sell

Celia Rose Langford (2019) - Queered Time on the Page: The Micro-level Revolution of the Bishōnen in 21st Century Yaoi Manga

Febriani Sihombing - On The Iconic Difference between Couple Characters in Boys Love Manga – 2011

William S. Armour (2010) Representations of the Masculine in Tagame Gengoroh's Ero SM Manga - https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2010.527922

Zhang Yiyuan - Repressed Sexuality — Disguised Masculinity in Chinese Danmei Adapted Series – 2023

Poramate Parnpiamkiat - Expectation of Fans Towards Thai Boys’ Love Celebrity Couples (2019)

Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt, Porntep Kamonpetch, Ketsarin Sirichuanjun & Natthanont Sukthungthong (2024) Socio-demographics, lifestyles, and consumption frequency of Thai ‘Boys Love’ series content: Initial evidence from Thailand https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2307697

Charlie Yi Zhang & Adam K. Dedman (2021) Hyperreal homoerotic love in a monarchized military conjuncture: a situated view of the Thai Boys’ Love industry https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1959370

Xi Tian - Homosexualizing “Boys Love” in China DOI 10.1215/25783491-8163817

Aiqing Wang - Nonnormative Masculinity In Danmei Literature: ‘Maiden Seme’ And Sajiao https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2021.1.106123

Travis S. K. Kong - Sexuality and the rise of China : the post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China (2023)

Junqi Zhang - The Reception of Thai Boys Love Series in China: Consumption, Imagination, and Friction (2021)

Joanna Elfving-Hwang - Not So Soft After All: Kkonminam Masculinities in Contemporary South Korean Popular Culture (2011)

Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen - The Softening of Butches The Adoption of Korean "Soft" Masculinity among Thai Toms http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv7r429w.7

Ying-Chao Ka - The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211047518

Sandeep Bakshi. On Decolonising Queerness with Dr Sandeep Bakshi. 2023 https://hal.science/hal-04183158

Adam Chen-Dedman - Tongzhi Sovereignty: Taiwan’s lgbt Rights Movement and the Misplaced Critique of Homonationalism [ doi: 10.1163/24688800-20221267 ]

#japanese bl #thai bl #danmei #chinese bl #taiwanese bl #korean bl #seme/uke #boys love #queer #gay #queer culture #queer plurality

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aurora-daily · 6 years ago

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Interview: Aurora for Schön! Magazine by Megan Wallace (August 17th, 2018)

Known mononymously by her stage moniker Aurora, Aurora Aksnes’ spectral sounds have captivated fans the world over. A highly sensitive, empathetic person, Aksne’s music resonates deeply with those who hear it — including celebrity fans like Katy Perry. Originally hailing from the small Norwegian city of Os, the singer/songwriter began sewing the seeds of her musical career at a prodigiously young age; picking up the piano at six and writing her first songs at nine. After uploading a song onto Norwegian Soundcloud in 2012, she quickly caught the attention of an agent and was approached to move her musical passions onto a professional platform. Since then, she’s released the EP ‘Running With the Wolves’ and her first full-length album, ‘All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend‘. Whilst Aksne’s music has considerable reach globally — her debut album racked up fifty million Spotify listens — her Oasis cover of ‘Half the World Away’, used in a 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert, is what first drew her to the attention of British audiences.

In the intervening years, Aksne has toured the world, bringing her music to new audiences and opening herself up to new perceptions of the world. Perhaps this is what has led to the wider scope of her latest material, beginning with recent single ‘Queendom’ and eventually culminating in her forthcoming sophomore album, which empowers listeners to challenge the status quo. We sat down with the enigmatic musician to talk about her fanbase of ‘warriors’, why she loves performing for UK audiences, and her big plans for the future.

How did you first get involved in music?

I’ve always loved music from when I was a little child, but after a while, I realised there was no music perfect enough for my emotions, or that could say exactly the right words, in the right way. So I decided to try myself, and it made me feel divine and whole, so I never stopped! It’s a tool, an escape and a way to learn about the world at the same time.

Who would you say are your biggest musical influences? Which artists are you listening to at the moment?

I’m listening to a lot to Enya. And I’ve always loved the anger and political views in Bob Dylan’s universe. Now I’m listening to a lot to Leonard Cohen because he calms me down in a quite hectic time.

Has your Norwegian background impacted upon the character of your music? You grew up in the small city Os; was it more difficult to become involved in music living in a city which is not as cosmopolitan as Oslo or another European capital?

It was quite easy for me to get into the music industry, so I wouldn’t be the right person to ask. It kind of just happened to me! I didn’t even do anything for it to happen. My manager found me through someone else, and it took a while before I even considered accepting the proposal of becoming an artist.

Critics have praised your clear, emotive vocals. Did you receive any vocal training? How have you developed such a distinctive singing voice?

I have never trained in my life. Sometimes I think maybe I should, because if I’m doing something wrong then I would know before it’s too late! I’m not even sure how to properly warm up! I warm up my body and soul before a show, but never my voice! But I do also like the natural place my voice comes from. From my belly. Like a nature call.

You’re perhaps best known to UK audiences for the cover of Oasis’s ‘Half the World Away’ which you recorded for John Lewis’s 2015 Christmas advert. Given that your version is notably different to the original, would you care to share how you approached arranging the cover? Specifically, in what ways did you put your own spin on the material and why was this important?

The purpose of the whole song was for it to bring up emotions, and I pictured the old lonely man on the moon, so it was quite clear to me that I wanted it to sound very near, and fragile since I did the cover specifically for the commercial. A song can be done in so many ways and do so many different things to a person.

Your version of ‘Half the World Away’ is somewhat different from the rest of your body of work. How would you describe your sound to someone who had never heard it before?

My music comes from a different place to the covers I do. And that song was meant for a commercial, and my own work is meant for something entirely different. I would say I could fit in quite a few places. Pop, alternative, but at some times [my music can be] quite hard, and sad. Sometimes quite tribal. Storytelling but musical, and my future album is quite native; very inspired by the different cultures around the world. Back to the roots.

As a singer-songwriter, would you care to detail your creative process to our readers?

I never really know how to answer this question as a song comes to life in such different ways. Sometimes they linger in my head for a year before I even pour them out. Sometimes I write a song within the space of an hour and sometimes I see something happening and I know I have to preserve it, inside a song. But they all come from the same place. Curiosity. A way to explain the world and all the battles of emotions inside it. The dark side of humanity, and the sweet. There are so many wonderful things.

You refer to the members of your fanbase as ‘warriors’. Why is this? Would you say that you encourage your fans to be strong and empowered?

Yes! I just liked the idea of all these people calling themselves that. It’s not so much that they are my “fans” but more that we are warriors together. A whole army of people who want to care about the world and everything in it.

Your latest track ‘Queendom’, certainly embodies an empowered attitude. Is there any particular message you are trying to communicate to listeners, or any particular narrative you are trying to establish?

I wanted to make a new world where a few things that bother me with my current world have become the complete opposite. Women are the soldiers, the quiet ones are the choir, and the underdogs can become lions. The world is so diverse, but somehow it seems too narrow. I wanted this place, this state of mind, where we celebrate our differences. Where love is love.

You have two upcoming UK shows in the Autumn. Have you played for UK audiences a lot before? How do they compare to audiences elsewhere?

I love the UK crowd! It’s easy to see that many of them have been to shows before and it’s like I’m dancing with another experienced dancer — if that makes sense? You get a lot of love. And you get silence and it’s nice to see them blossom, but taking their time and how free we all are at the end of the show.

Due to your popularity on streaming platforms, particularly Spotify, your fanbase is scattered across the world. How does this impact the touring experience? What do you enjoy most about touring?

I enjoy the food. And I enjoy the different kind of smells and types of air. The people feel the same no matter where you go, but they all show their emotions in different ways, and that is so beautiful to see.

Finally, do you have any other upcoming projects or events you would like to talk about? What are you looking forward to in the next few months?

I’m making an album. It has longer arms than my first one. I want to start a movement, to stir, because I can’t do anything alone, only together with my lovely warriors. We can do so much good together and I have some big plans including the planet and how to save her before it’s too late. Hopefully. Big dreams inside a tiny body.

Aurora’s new single, ‘Forgotten Love’, premieres today. Listen to it here.

#aurora #aurora aksnes #interviews

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