Excerpt from Ch. 2, On sexuality

I can remember around the age of 4 or 5 looking at a book titled “Where Do Babies Come From?” My mother, a former elementary school teacher, believed in complete honesty about the human body and reproduction, and the book was meant to help me understand the answer to the question posed in the title. [...]

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Conversation from JGuyUSGuy

“Have you ever thought of the relationship between studying Japan and American queer identity (the same way you think about English learning and J queer identity)?”
That’s an AMAZING question, 働く犬. I think it may be one and the same phenomenon in that we see ourselves in each others’ struggles and successes. There may be similar [...]

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Shitty First Draft of Preface and Ch. 1

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Here’s the skeleton…a lot of development to go. Ch 2 and 3 have both been started. I consider this my shitty first draft (although it’s more like my shitty 27th draft). The climb up the mountain has begun!
(at left, the base of Fuji-san)
Dissertation, Preface and Chapter 1

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