Hi everybody!

Welcome to the website.

Sincerely,

--Celebrating Protest

"Weapons which should not have been used were being used and I felt disgusted by this... and I thought if I went to Iraq young people in my country might begin to show an interest in this."

---Noriaki Imai
BBC News June 29, 2005

"My sexuality and me: liberation from the spell of sexuality: I fall in love with people regardless of their gender. The history of my own sexual experiences: I used to be heterosexual because it was the only way I knew of, because of social norms. Then one day, I realized I had become a lesbian. I am not interested in men, and I’m not good at dealing with hyper-masculine or hyper-feminine types. Romantic love for me is about how I can construct a human relationship, rather than that person’s sex and gender. In the course of my daily life in Tokyo, I must face both the entrenched sexism and compulsory heterosexuality of this society. Even as I act with the hope of contributing to the visibility of lesbians, ultimately I cannot escape the feeling that I am being ignored. The concept of this performance stems from the frustration on the part of lesbians of not being able to overcome a sensation of invisibility. So—positively and bigheartedly—I choose to toy with a giant rubber tit. I choose to pursue my sexual fantasies to my heart’s content. Performance—self-realization—the moment of supreme happiness."

---Tari Ito

"Intersex refers to congenital anomalies of internal or external reproductive organs, sex chromosomes and other variations of sex differentiation. Recently, the new medical terminology, disorders of sex development (DSD), was introduced to replace "intersex" in medical settings, with passionate arguments for and against the change from patients, families,
scholars, and medical professionals. Intersex activist Emi Koyama will discuss how these debates represent both confluence and conflict of strategies and identities within the intersex movement, much of which derive from LGBT and disability politics, and offer pragmatic solutions to improve the medical treatment of children born with intersex conditions."

---Emi Koyama