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<\/a><\/p>\nCome hear two storytellers who are working at the edge of gender, sexuality, and the visual arts: graphic novelist MariNaomi, whose critically acclaimed new comic memoir explores her time working at hostess bars in Tokyo, and Japanese sculptor\/manga artist Rokudenashiko, who was arrested last year in Japan for “distribution of obscenity.” Her crime? Creating explicitly feminist art based on her own vulva. While Rokudenashiko is now free–and has been raved about by Jon Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Ai Weiwei–her trial is still pending. Hear MariNaomi and Rokudenashiko in conversation with Anne Ishii, AAWW Board Member and co-editor and translator of Rokudenashiko\u2019s new book.<\/p>\n
Joining them will be the translator and co-editor (with Graham Kolbeins) of Rokudenashiko\u2019s book, Anne Ishii. She is an AAWW Board Member and co-editor of MASSIVE GOODS, a fashion brand, publisher, and creative agency representing queer and feminist artists from Japan. MASSIVE\u2019s mission is to spread iconoclastic artwork addressing gender and sexuality to new audiences and new forms, from museum walls to bodies everywhere. Check out Anne in The Margins interviewing Jillian Tamaki, Michael DeForge, and comics publisher Annie Koyama.<\/p>\n
$5 suggested donation
\nOpen to the public<\/p>\n