Unqueer queers—drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan

In the last twenty years, Japanese transgender people have acquired increased visibility in mainstream Japanese society. Notwithstanding that, female-to-male (FTM) trans people continue to be misunderstood by the Japanese public, and largely underrepresented in Anglophone academic scholarship. This paper therefore seeks to account for one aspect of FTM cultural life in present-day Japan that has largely remained invisible to mainstream society. Drawing on my fieldwork at FTM drinking parties in Tokyo between 2013 and 2019, I demonstrate how seemingly trivial drinking events not only play an important role in fostering a sense of community among their participants, but also enable the claiming of transgender cultural citizenship in a conservative state like Japan, which only recognizes a narrowly defined notion of transgender

Citizenship · Mainstream · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Transgender · Visibility · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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