What We Enjoy Big Tech & Workers' Rights in Little Witch Academia In Episode 14 of Little Witch Academia, magitronics developer Croix's sabotage of the negotiations between Luna Nova's witches and worker faeries reveals how the tech industry acts in the interests of the elite.
What We Enjoy Genshin's Hilichurl and Gaming's Colonialist Impulse Genshin Impact continues a long standing practice of depicting enemies as racist caricatures, reinforcing the colonialist design of RPGs.
What We Enjoy In Pursuit of Being Brown As I search for my first online adventure in years, I recall the difficulty of finding spaces that will allow me to be brown.
What We Enjoy Bofuri and The Future of Online Community Through embracing gaming-newbie Kaede's original, atypical approach to the hit MMORPG NewWorld Online, Bofuri presents a more inclusive future for online play.
What We Enjoy Abolish the Aristocracy: Beyond Royal Protagonists in Fire Emblem What does a Fire Emblem game look like without the nobility? In this post, I consider how it might be time for the franchise to turn its back to the throne.
What We Enjoy Lyn's Marginalization in Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade Lyn heroically overcomes prejudice and grief on her journey to rescue her grandfather, only to be relegated as Eliwood and Hector's moral support.
What We Enjoy Ghosts Politics & Neoliberal Identity Motoko resists neoliberal identity politics by accepting the Puppet Master's wager and rejecting Cartesian mind-body dualism.
What We Enjoy Solidarity and Song in Carole & Tuesday Carole & Tuesday shows us the radical potential of solidarity through music, but can it convince us to hope as well?
What We Enjoy A Chance at Legend: Revisiting Anticipation for the New Final Fantasy VII For my first post, I reflect on the Final Fantasy VII Remake announcement from five years ago, and dig into why it made me so excited for its release this month even though I've never played the original.
What We Learn Vignettes of Belonging in The Color of Her Passport Through the experiences of five individuals, The Color of Her Passport provides a glimpse into the questions of identity and belonging that those caught in Japan and Korea's bitter politics must struggle with today.
What We Learn Leaving Leadership Behind: Media's New Role in Movement-Making Civil Rights activist Bernard Lafayette, Jr. suggests that a movement needs a leader to act as its spokesperson. But Sasha Constanza-Chock's research on transmedia organizing shows us that such leaders may not be as essential to a movement's growth as they once were.
What We Learn Kōtoku Shūsui and Angela Davis Discuss Revolution From prison in 1910 and 1973 respectively, Japanese anarchist Kotoku Shusui and Black scholar-activist Angela Davis contemplate why the question of violence in revolution is the wrong one.
What We Learn The Myth of Monoethnicity in Multiethnic Japan As John Lie's "Multiethnic Japan" explores the pervasiveness of Japan's perceived monoethnicity, he reminds us of the urgent need to shed this bias from our vocabulary and amplify minority voices.
What We Learn Shishunki: How We Let Our Children Down From the perspective of an elementary school boy, director Koki Okakura's award-winning short film "Shishunki" explores how our education system and society at large teach us to ostracize those who are different.
What We Learn All or None: Lessons from A New Jim Crow After proving that mass incarceration is another iteration of America's racial caste system, Michelle Alexander argues that only a major social movement that includes "everyone" can dismantle it for good.
What We Fight For What Comes After Detention: Exhibition on the Lives of Asylum Seekers in Japan (10/25) An exhibition by photojournalist Sachiko Saito and the Society for Understand Kurds shows how Japanese immigration law has failed refugees, and warns us that the worst is yet to come.
What We Fight For Tokyo Immigration Bureau Protest with BLM Shinagawa and Justice for Pato-chan (9/21) Dozens of protesters gathered on Monday to condemn the Tokyo Immigration Bureau's abuse and discrimination of Black and Trans immigrants.
What We Fight For Observing Kamuycepnomi in Monbetsu (9/5) On September 6th, Ainu from all over Japan gathered in Monbetsu, Hokkaido to observe the salmon ritual Kamuycepnomi and discuss how to continue their fight for Indigenous rights.
What We Fight For Black Panelists Discuss #BLM on NHK (7/23) A month and a half after airing a racist animation of the George Floyd protests, NHK invites a panel of Black guests to discuss anti-Black racism in Japan on its barrier-free variety show "Baribara."
What We Fight For Tokyo Immigration Bureau Protest (7/10) Every two weeks, dozens of citizens gather in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest the inhumane treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers in detention.