I started a podcast series with my ESL student, Kinoko, where we share with you video recordings of our lessons. Kinoko's ESL Lesson 004 - The pressure to fit in and finding energy in our own way progreztribe.substack.com/p/kinokos-es...

I'm doing a little queer-themed pop-up café/bar in Ueno on Sunday October 19 from 3PM through 10PM. The venue is Deaf Bar SELF (3rd floor, 7-10-5 Ueno, Tokyo). masakichitose.theletter.jp/posts/13d326...

The Danchi Queer - a podcast where queer essayist Masaki Seto from Japan talks about his life in Japan. My first episode is about Sanseito and how Japan has always been xenophobic anyway. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

It always feels awkward when someone believes they have been wronged but in fact they have only misunderstood the grammar or expression because it's their second language. When I was in college, a friend of mine took issue with what they perceived to be a reference to "Jews" in /

Why would I “come out” of the closet that I never went into?

Bisexual people are bisexual no matter who we date, fuck, or marry.

Friend: Someone told me Discord is like Slack but for younger people. Me: That's micro-aggression.

A quick overview of xenophobia in post-WWII Japan

Is Sanseito's xenophobia anything new? - a quick overview of xenophobia in post-war Japan www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkB... The vlogging footage is from when I took a long walk in residential Saitama on a hot summer day.

[New vlog] The election results (san'insen) and the rise of the far-right, fascist Sanseito are depressing, but should we be surprised? Is Sanseito's xenophobia anything new? - a quick overview of xenophobia in post-war Japan www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkB...

A new video on how we should spend less time trying to be present everywhere and thus spreading ourselves too thin, and instead put in more time into crafting things that we love creating. YouTube (with English subtitles) www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Qr...

I subtitled queer Sci-Fi anime Lost Stars Planet masakicm.medium.com/i-subtitled-...

Our upcoming event is about nonbinary identities! With Prof. Kyoko Takeuchi @kyokotakeuchi.bsky.social, we will talk about what it means to be nonbinary in Japan and how terms like X-gender have evolved. progreztribe20250615.peatix.com

#ProgrezTribe is a politically progressive Discord server where social issues are discussed in simple language, in either Japanese or English. If you're learning Japanese, join our conversations about queer/feminist politics etc. in simple Japanese! discord.gg/jq7Tt8bsSR

Is my mom a TERF? - An interview with a Japanese feminist mother on sexism youtube.com/watch?v=qneO... I went to interview my mother in Gunma, Japan to discuss her life as a woman in Japan. We talked about her past, feminism, intersectionality, transphobia, etc.

It's been years (literally) but I'm making vlogs again. "A queer life in Japan: politics, history, and the community" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuA2... It's a long video (17+ mins) so I'll post snippets in 🧵

Coauthoring this research means a thousand times more to me than any title I have won in sport. In 2013, I made a promise to a young suicidal 13-year-old trans sports girl. I vowed to advocate fiercely until we can all run or swim a lap free from abuse.

昨夜の #ProgrezTribe 立ち上げパーティーにご来場ありがとうございました！ Thank you all for coming out last night to the ProgrezTribe kick-off party! progreztribe.substack.com/p/7a2

If you are bisexual, hit the heart icon バイの人いいねして

Friend: "#$%&'()0 at the store?" Me: "What?" Friend: "AT THE STORE" How come people never repeat the whole sentence!?!???!??

Can we all go back to the very basic premise that we should not use terms like lame, gay, dumb, and crazy to describe something (we think is) bad?

So this is it. A Discord community where we can discuss social issues like queer politics in simple Japanese & simple English! It’s not just language exchange but community-building. Don’t worry about making mistakes or mispronouncing things because that’s 100% OK!

今年始める新しいプロジェクトです！ 興味ありそうな知り合いがいたらシェアしてください〜 This is my new project! Please share this post to anyone you think may be interested! #英語 #英会話 #Japanese #nihongo #社会 #politics #LGBTQ #差別 #equality

The Blue Boy Trial, a movie based on a true story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bo... will be out this autumn. The filmmaker Kasho Iizuka, himself a trans man, made sure the cast was trans.

As someone who grew up in Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S. in my teen years, I have been in the situation many, many times, where I was in a group discussion and could not keep up with the conversation because I didn’t speak the language everyone else was speaking fluently enough.

I am building a community this year.

A student recently told me about Dyke Weekend. It's an all-inclusive 3-day retreat + workshop event in Japan for lesbian and bisexual women (cis and trans) that has been going on for OVER 30 YEARS.

#LGBTQ+ not #LGB

A Japanese phrase I learned today - "Nagase koka (effect)" It refers to the correlation between medical subsidies and overall medical costs (e.g. when a government cuts down on national healthcare benefits, people will be less likely to see a doctor when sick). www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/vie...

"These attacks on trans rights are part of Trump's bigger flood-the-zone strategy, a tactic that is designed to keep us all overwhelmed so that we don't fight back. トランスの権利に対するこれらの攻撃は、トランプの「flood the zone（情報氾濫）戦略」、つまり、私たちが反撃できないように圧倒し続ける戦略の一部です。 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKE...

With Meta's, Amazon's and Google's DEI rollbacks, as well as Spotify's big support for right-leaning podcasters, donation to Trump, and investments in AI weapons, plus TikTok sucking up to Trump & hosting his inauguration events etc., it seems like there's no platform where one can publish content /

Everything now feels like the final episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean, where time accelerates and the end of all approaches, in the sense that Trump and his friends are fast-forwarding capitalism to its end.

Now more than ever.

With the violent, inhumane anti-trans executive orders of the new regime creating massive fear and panic among queer and trans folks, we——especially those who are now called by the government "LGB"——must stand up for and alongside our trans and queer siblings.

私たちはもうたくさんのクィアな知り合いがいるからSNSから身を引いても「この世には仲間がいる」と思えるけど、そうやって私たちが去ったSNSでは、若い人たちや、若くなくてもこれから自分の属するかもしれないコミュニティを見つけようとしている段階にある人は、どうやって自分自身を肯定するような言葉に出会えるだろうか。Discordサーバーはある？ そのサーバーの存在はどこで知れるのか。ニュースレターはある？ そのニュースレターの書き手の文章とどこで出会えるのか。ずっと考えてる。

11月末と宣言した通り、あと2時間くらいで Bluesky を去ります。 As I said, I’ll leave Bluesky in about 2 hours. 放置＆ログアウトという形をとるのでアカウントは一応残りますが連絡手段としては使い物にならなくなります。では、ね。 I’ll keep the account but I don’t plan on logging back in so do not expect me to read your replies or messages. Goodbye.

I'm back on YouTube & here's the new video (vlog-ish podcast) on how I'm leaving social media altogether at the end of the month. It's got English subtitles! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmVJ... *I'm leaving Bluesky, too. Stay connected with me on YouTube, Podcast, TikTok, & Medium via linktr.ee/mskseto

刻一刻と「瀬戸マサキ名義のSNSを全部辞める日」（11月末）が迫っているので、なんだか不思議な気分である。卒業間近の教室にいるみたいな。

Soon, Medium will be the only way for you to stay in touch with me (in English, that is), as by the end of Nov. 2024, I'll go completely inactive on all my social media outlets including this Bluesky. - masakicm.medium.com/ - linktr.ee/mskseto (vlog/podcast, mostly JP)

2024年11月末で、X と Bluesky の使用を辞めます。 それ以降はニュースレター、YouTube、ポッドキャスト（あと多分だけど TikTok）での発信のみとなります。 linktr.ee/mskseto ↑ここから全部アクセスできます。 今後も気にかけてくださる方はぜひニュースレターにご登録を。ではでは。

一応ブルースカイとインスタとスレッズを「残すSNS」として候補にしてたけど、結局全部辞めたくなっている。

1週間以上咳に悩まされてるんだが、一昨日あたりから咳が止まらず顔が真っ赤になるまで苦しむというのを30分に1回とか繰り返してて、寝てる間も2時間に1回くらいそれで起きてるんだけど、とうとうさっき、椅子に座ってパソコンで文章を読んでたら次の瞬間遠くから声が聞こえて、気づいたら床に、というか椅子と机の間に倒れてた。どうやら咳き込んで意識を失って椅子から落ちたらしい。聞こえた声はすぐ隣にいた同居のパートナーが私を揺すりながらかけてた声だった。その後幸い特に体に異変はないものの、机の角に胸を打ったのと、膝を擦りむいてしまった。怖すぎる。明日かかりつけ医に電話して報告する予定。

Maybe social media are not for me after all, X or otherwise.

What a relief to finally find out that Natsuo Kirino isn't a TERF.

ようやくやる気を出して linktree を作った。 linktr.ee/mskseto

Hey cisgender people please read this.

Trans Women in Sport: What Does the Science Say? Research suggests trans women have minimal to no performance advantage over cisgender women. Authors: Dr Sav Zwickl, Eli Ward-Smith & A/Prof Ada Cheung