Queerness, for several definitions thereof

[marshtide]

1. You've probably seen this around, but on the offchance, “Straight Male Gamer” told to ‘get over it’ by BioWare. How beautiful is this?


2. I know some of you are academically inclined when it comes to anime & manga fandom, and so I thought I'd ask around a bit - do you know any good articles or book chapters on shojo, particularly classic shojo, and even more specifically with a focus on queerness? Do you know of any good articles or book chapters on the historical traditions into which that particular brand of 70s shojo that I'm so interested in fits into? Do you know of any about its influence on later manga?

I have some material on all these things, various manga history books and academic papers, but one always misses things. And you guys are a smart and well-read bunch. ♥


3. Yesterday I imagined that I had picked up my wallet and put it in my pocket before we went to the shops. I had, in fact, put it on the microwave.

I seem to be putting a lot of things on the microwave lately, for no apparent reason. My only defence is that I'm still pretty heavily medicated...

Comments

[starlady]

Hmm. That's a really good question, and I think possibly a hole in the scholarship--there's a lot of stuff that's known anecdotally, but I don't know that anyone's ever put it all together in English. Aside from ransacking the citations in the articles in Mechademia 2, I'd actually suggest asking rushthatspeaks, who's working on a history of shoujo and knows way more about it than I do.

I have no idea whether its issues are online at all or not, but the place I'd think to find articles would be The Comics Journal, I think is the name. Wherever Matt Thorn published his interviews with Hagio Moto.

[marshtide]

Thanks so much, any pointers are good. Obviously I don't read Japanese so I do tend to run up against that thing where reference-chasing doesn't get one very far. But that's some stuff to work with! :)