In December 2008, at a Christmas party hosted by the Center for Gender Studies, CGS staff asked those who intended to participate in the party dressed in drag to refrain from doing it. Despite our commitment to fighting discrimination against gender minorities and sexual minorities, we at CGS had unwittingly lost sight of our principles and had come to mix up familiarity with easiness to control. We wish to express our sincere regret for the incident last year and we apologize to all those who were victimized and hurt by our actions. CGS regards this incident as a serious issue for our entire organization. We issue this statement to express our firm resolve to prevent such an incident from occurring again in the future and to express our apologies to all those concerned.
01. From CGS: May 2009 Archives
Kimiko KIMOTO
Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Kazuko TANAKA
Professor, International Christian University
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the 11th issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
CGS: Today, Professors Kimiko Kimoto (KK) and Kazuko Tanaka (KT), shall discuss the future prospects for gender/sexuality pedagogy. Firstly, Professor Kimito could you tell us about Hitotsubashi's GenEP (a school-wide educational program for gender equity)?
KK: At Hitotsubashi University, students follow the curriculum set specifically for their chosen major to complete the credits required for graduation. Before the introduction of GenEP, individual lecturers voluntarily incorporated gender perspectives in their classes since there were no required gender-related courses. But with GenEP, we created for the first time an official system of gender-related courses and offered a list of such courses for students. Every year we make a new program of gender-related coursework that enables students to systematically study gender issues. The program is administered by the Center for Gender Research and Social Sciences (CGraSS).
*CGraSS Website: http://gender.soc.hit-u.ac.jp/index.html
Takako NIWA
Graduate Student, ICU
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the ???th issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
As a CGS staff member who participated in the CGS-hosted workshop "Developing Self-Esteem and Communication Skills," I would like to report on this event. The workshop series continued over 5 sessions, the titles of which were as follows:
(1) Turn Your Weaknesses into Strengths
(2) Dealing with Stress
(3) Skills in Positive Speaking
(4) Understanding Anger
(5) Dealing with Harassment and Improving Communication Skills at Work
The event drew more applicants than expected, and while this pleased me as a member of the planning committee, it also made me see how so many people were worried about their interpersonal relationships. I felt that the difficulties of living in the contemporary were being pushed under my nose again.
Shintaro ISHIGURO
Chair, ICU Festival Committee 2008
Keita UEHARA
Committee Planner, ICU Festival Committee 2008
Naoko TAKAYAMA
Counselor, Support House Jomu
Makiko ISERI, Takako NIWA and Naomi SUZUKI
CGS staff members
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the 11th issue of the CGS Newsletter. The full Japanese version of this discussion can be viewed on here.】
Last year, the ICU Festival 2008 committee had several meetings with CGS staff to discuss whether or not a beauty contest should be held at the ICU festival. Today, Mr. Ishiguro (SI) and Mr. Uehara (KU) of the festival committee met with CGS staff members (Iseri (MI), Niwa (TN) and Suzuki (NS)) for a round-table discussion facilitated by Ms. Takayama (NT) a professional counselor. We hope this article will clarify the issues involved and help you form your own opinions.