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Join JETAA WI at our next subchapter meeting on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Join us at 5:30pm, in-person, for our meeting over dinner at Golden Mast Inn, a supper club in Okauchee, WI. Spring and summer events discussion is on the agenda. Please RSVP by Thursday 2/6.
Venue:
Weissgerber's Golden Mast Inn
W349 N5293 Lacys Ln
Okauchee, WI 53069
Below, please see the information for a Northwestern University event that was shared with us. More details can be found on the event page.
When: Thursday, February 27, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 101, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman ribu) movement, the lesbian community, and a sphere comprised of artists and fans of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). In this talk, James Welker introduces his new monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans, which examines these communities and their cultural import. As he shows, individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining firmly fixed on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.
On Saturday, January 25th, Kansas Subchapter representative Baiba Sedriks has organized a viewing of this documentary telling the American story of May Namba and her experience through World War II and the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Doors open at 6PM CT and the screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emily Hanako Momohara.
Registration is required! Full details can be found on Heartland's Facebook Page and you can click here to sign-up. We hope you'll be able to join our neighbor's event!