Other
Nonacademic publications (selected)
The Plants Are My Family Too, And Yours. In FAMILY PHOTO zine for Koishikawa Botanical Festival. 2023.
Nonclassical Kaeriten. In NEON ZINE 1, Neon Book Club. With Y. Ishikawa.
To My Communities. Text for zine catalog for Adrian Alarcón LOVE exhibition, Berlin.
Love Letter. For Red Awareness/In Bloom exhibition, AKTA Gallery, Tokyo. (To appear in a catalog for the exhibition)
Shintai ni Mi wo Awaseru. Interview with Zheng Bo for IWAKAN magazine (UN)NATURAL issue. 2022.
I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage, Novara Media, June 21, 2021.
The Form of Family. FAMILY MOVE zine. With M. Morita and E. Ottosson. 2021.
On Opening Yourself. IWAKAN Magazine, Volume 2. 2021.
A transgender woman caught in the system finds help from the community, in Japan Times, October 19 2020.
Being ‘othered’ in Japan is not the same as oppression, in Japan Times, June 29, 2020.
Japanese law needs to catch up with the realities of trans life, in Japan Times, February 16, 2019.
Artistic research and exhibitions
2023. FAMILY PHOTO. In Koishikawa Botanical Festival, Tokyo. November 3–5. With M. Morita and E. Ottosson (MOM collective).
Family need not consist only of humans. This project centers around a family photo album of the collective members together with their plant family, organized into a zine with texts by the collective members and others. Our colllective ran a workshop at the festival inviting festival participants to find their own nonhuman family within the garden and put pictures of them into their own copy of the zine.
2022. FAMILY MOVE (MOM + I). In WEST PRIDE, Gothenburg. June 9–21. With M. Morita and E. Ottosson (MOM collective) and Ippei Nakao.
2021. FAMILY MOVE (MOM + I). In Where is a space for us? group exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, June 1–20. With M. Morita and E. Ottosson (MOM collective) and Ippei Nakao.
Exhibition about a move from house to house of a nonnormative family unit (that of the collective members). We did an open call on social media for temporary family members and invited them to help us move and make an artwork or text. The exhibition consisted of a video installation, the artworks and texts of (non)temporary family, and a zine compiling all the (temporary) family artworks.
2019. The Shape of Things to Come: Technology, AI and the Human.
Organized exhibition and funding (from Tokyo Arts Council). The exhibition included 8 artists and incorporated a workshop on soft robotics and LARP in addition to several lectures by AI researchers. November 16–December 15. Aoyama Gakuin University.