{"id":120,"date":"2016-09-30T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsincerity.wpengine.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:00:24","slug":"sailor-moon-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/sailor-moon-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Moon, Comic That Helps Japanese LGBTQ Community Cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sailor Moon and her girlfriend Sailor Neptune are one of the most popular queer couples in fantasy land. And now LGBTQ youth in Japan have adopted them as the centerpiece of their fast-growing cultural movement.<\/p>\n<p>An early \u201890s comic book probably isn\u2019t the first place we\u2019d look for an antidote to modern day intolerance. But like one trans rights activist says, \u201cIt\u2019s an imaginary world where gender and sexuality are often very fluid.\u201d That story of magic, transformation and community is exactly what makes it perfect for the job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Competition <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ajandmagnus?src=hash\">#ajandmagnus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/comics?src=hash\">#comics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/family?src=hash\">#family<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lgbt?src=hash\">#lgbt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0fjlsF7hY\">pic.twitter.com\/s0fjlsF7hY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJ &amp; Magnus (@ajandmagnus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajandmagnus\/status\/798901861180932096\">November 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"image-wrap\"><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBefore reading that comic book, I thought that I was different and I tried to hide it\u201d says a 17-year-old transgirl from Osaka, \u201cbut once I read the comic book I started to think it\u2019s OK to be different and it completely changed how I thought about myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We know there\u2019s a lot of work still to do, but this is the kind of stuff that inspires hope for the future of not just the LGBTQ community, but all of us. Worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sailor Moon and her girlfriend Sailor Neptune are one of the most popular queer couples in fantasy land. And now LGBTQ youth in Japan have adopted them as the centerpiece of their fast-growing cultural movement. An early \u201890s comic book probably isn\u2019t the first place we\u2019d look for an antidote to modern day intolerance. 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