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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Oh, you study international relations? That must be exciting right now!”

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Japanese government's attempts to transform anime, manga, games, and films into the nation's economic engine rely on a lot of wishful thinking. I sat down with the Institute of Geoeconomics to discuss how to build a fantasy-industrial complex: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxlo...

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Japan's Content Industry and Geoeconomics: What Comes After Soft Power?

YouTube video by 地経学研究所 / Institute of Geoeconomics

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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

✨ It’s the week!! This year’s edition of the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium is starting tonight EST (or tomorrow morning JST)!! Take your ticket for free if you haven’t yet and see you there! 🌸🌷🌺 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

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Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

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Mel Lopes @mel-lopes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think I finally understood the civil lethargy towards politics since the pandemic. There's an EXCESSIVE fight for our vote and we got exhausted, preferring to not engage at all than having to follow up with more of the same. Seems like only those with political education didn't get lost.

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Mel Lopes @mel-lopes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Breaking my head trying to understand this whole philosophical paradox of rationality in ethics but all my brain can absorb is: Vulcans are wrong, logic is a lie.

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Mel Lopes @mel-lopes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm switching to Zotero, and I don't even have that much data, but just organising my files already look like a whole day activity

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Online registration is now open for Japan Past & Present’s symposium, "Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan," to be held at UCLA with virtual streaming from October 2–3, 2026. japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

A poster with a white background overlaid with close-ups from a medieval Japanese map, showing foliage, roads, and a small structure. The title of the symposium is displayed with logos for the Yanai Initiative and Japan Past & Present. The titles read: Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan 中世の村──『旅引付』と16世紀の日本

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Mel Lopes @mel-lopes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Looks like my first post is my peak, I'm afraid nothing else could possibly top this.

A printscreen of the account of Chiitan liking my first ever post on blue sky introducing myself.

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Mel Lopes @mel-lopes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hi! My master's thesis is still on its first bones, spinning around Japanese cultural diplomacy using queer products in contradiction with its domestic lack of legislative recognition for sexual minorities. This is an academic acc to follow and interact with others in Japanese studies! Other accs:

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