【Decolonising the “Human”】Special Lecture Janis Cherry "Living Coetaneous and Yet Different Genocidal "Every Day"" (Mon. 12th February)

―Attendance Limited to ICU Students and Faculty & Staff members―
【Decolonising the “Human”】 Special Lecture

Janis Cherry  
Living Coetaneous and Yet Different Genocidal “Every Day”

Disregarding Israel's occupation of Palestine or apartheid policy, LGBT-related businesses in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, such as Rainbow Pride and Pride House Tokyo, have been supported by the Israeli Embassy and cooperated with Israel's cultural foreign policy, which has been criticised as pinkwashing. The situation cannot be separated from the demand for security brought simultaneously by Japan's military and foreign policy, including changes in security-related legislation since the 2010s, and praise of superficial "diversity" under the pretext of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which was scheduled for 2020 and held in the following year. In this talk, I will talk about my experiences of (non)participating in activism, focusing on the activities of a project "Queering Futsu-no-LGBT", and also the BDS movement as an international solidarity movement with Palestine.

Janis Cherry
Born in Kansai, Japan in the mid-1970s. Vegetarian. In 2001, Janis Cherry founded the Feminism and Lesbian Art working group: FLA (https://feminism-lesbianart.tumblr.com/). By calling for participants for each project, Janis Cherry has engaged in organising reading groups, film screening, workshops, talk events, publishing ZINEs and running a web magazine "iratsume", and a project "Queering Futsu-no-LGBT".  Since 2020, Janis has been involved in a feminist researchers' group TIF.jp (https://transinclusivefeminism.wordpress.com/).

【Only for ICU Students, Faculty & Staff members】
Date and Time：Monday 12^th February, 14:00-15:30
Venue：Webinar ※Pre-registration required (Please email cgs@icu.ac.jp)
Language：Japanese
 UD Talk available

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Organiser: Fumina Hamasaki
Inquiry: cgs@icu.ac.jp